Saturday, October 20, 2012

Hysteria (1965)

MGM
Directed by Freddie Francis
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

Robert Webber is a car accident victim with amnesia in London. His psychiatrist tries to help him regain his memory while a mysterious benefactor pays for his treatment and posh penthouse apartment. He starts hearing voices in the empty apartment next door and finds a body in his shower. A girl that is supposed to be dead shows up around town and eventually seduces him. Is he going crazy or are these things really happening? It's an overly familiar plot device from countless films, that is until the big plot twist towards the end which admittedly I did not see coming, a little too late to save the film as a whole.

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