In the psychological thriller “hypochondriasis”, life and all its fears begin with the mother. When the movie’s main character, Will (played by Ian Inigo as a child) was young, his mother (Marlene Forte) was suffering from a mental illness. Her illness manifested itself in a violent, violent spell. She screamed and hurt herself. One of Will’s most indelible memories is that his mother strangled him as a boy.
Eighteen years later, Will (Zach Villa) seems to have lived a more peaceful life than when he was a kid. He works as a potter and he has a loving boyfriend, Luke (Devon Graye). He wants to introduce Will to his family. However, Will’s stability begins to crack when his estranged mother resumes contact. She sends him a box of abandoned DVD cases and scattered, disturbing voice messages warning him to leave Luke. Will is worried that his mother will be infected for the rest of his life and become like his mother. But when he begins to have a vision of a giant wolf man, a distorted memory of his childhood outfit, his horror begins in paranoia.
Writer and director Addison Heymann flirts with horror elements in this story of mother and son mania. Will’s wolf ghost runs with a practical effect of dripping with blood and matte fur. The bloody results of distorted thoughts are vividly depicted with surgical credibility. But when it comes to portraying Boogeyman in style, if the film is certain, it’s not so certain in portraits of people experiencing psychotic symptoms. The film connects the thrills of the film with real illnesses and the monsters of the film to specific psychological symptoms. The psychology of the armchair causes nausea and causes confusion between diagnosis and punishment.
Hypochondriasis
Unrated. Execution time: 1 hour 37 minutes. In the theater.
