Regression
The movie follows detective Bruce Kenner as he investigates the case of John Gray who admits to sexually abusing his 17-year-old daughter, Angela, but has no recollection of it. Renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.
13 November 1991, Canada
18 July 1992, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
20 March 1963, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
29 September 1961, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
May 25, 2016
This is a college essay about religion dressed up as drama. Grade: F.March 02, 2016
This is a movie that, because it deals with secrets, promises thrills and possibly a measure of terror; but, in fact, everything is based on an anti-climax, and the result is a resounding "so what?"February 05, 2016
Tripped up by its subject matter, the movie is ultimately a tepid and frustrating experience.February 19, 2016
Absurdity turns quickly to boredom.September 19, 2015
This allegedly fact-based tale of Satanic suspicions in small-town Minnesota is potboiler material at best, threatening far twistier terrors than those it predictably delivers.February 06, 2016
A disposable genre movie that cannot scare, convince, or enlighten.May 30, 2016
Despite its Euro-gothic pretensions, the film struggles to sell its far-fetched premise and is further hobbled by a slew of unconvincing performances.February 05, 2016
Well-intended seriousness dismantles "Regression," a not-exactly-horror horror movie that's also a mystery with no mystery.May 16, 2016
Deriving inspiration from a certain famed Arthur Miller play and reframing it for the era of rampant, media-invoked Satanic Panic fears, "Regression" provocatively blankets its elegiac mystery in a malignant pall of diabolical foreboding.February 11, 2016
Amenábar's film can barely lay out its faith-vs.-science-vs.-reason conflicts, much less employ them for critical purposes.February 10, 2016
Hawke anchors the film as a cop who descends deeper and deeper into the monstrous, violent world he's uncovered.March 01, 2016
Fans of the genre are in for a stylish film, if not a classic.