Movie Review: Regression
A man goes into a police station and admits to raping his daughter, but doesn't actually remember doing anything. The detective (Hawke) goes to investigate the house and talk to the girl's grandmother. Her house is filled with cats, which wouldn't be weird, but I have a feeling it's not as not-weird as I would like it to be. The cop who goes with him, George Nesbitt, knows exactly where the girl's room is, which is also weird to me. Apparently he's a "friend of the family".
Bruce Kenner, the detective, and a psychoanalyst Kenneth Raines (David Thewlis) talk to John, the girl's dad. They help him get through the repressed memories. When they get through to him, he sees George Nesbitt tying Angela, the girl, to her bed with black rope. Raines and Kenner go to see Angela at the church she's been hiding in. She doesn't want to tell them anything, but she writes it down, complete with an inverted cross. Apparently George Nesbitt and John Gray, Angela's father, were trying to summon the devil. Dun dun duh.
The pastor from the church goes to see John and confronts him. Raines and Kenner find Angela's brother Roy and use the regression technique on him. He remembers hooded figures coming into his room when he was young. Kenner suspects the grandma has something to do with the goings-on. Kenner goes to see Angela after she has a meltdown at the hospital, she tells him about her dad's workshop and the weird rituals and baby-killing that went on there. She shows up at the police station and tells him she's being followed. He takes her home and she gives him a bible. Now she's got him all paranoid. He starts seeing things like hooded figures and Angela's very-boney grandmother riding him.
Angela, her grandmother, Kenner, and Raines sit down. Angela's grandmother, Rose, is incredibly upset as she's being called a baby killer.
One of Rose's cats is screaming outside. She follows it out to the barn where the cat is very agitated. She tries to coax the cat out of the barn, but it suddenly has red eyes and jumps at her. She runs back to the house and is overwhelmed by voices calling her a baby-killer and other things. She jumps out of the window to escape everything.
At the site of Angela's mother's grave, Angela kisses Bruce. Roy has an outburst when he goes to see Rose and is upset by how Bruce, Raines, and the pastor are all manipulating her emotions.
When he gets home, Bruce gets a call, not the first one, and it's just a hang-up. We see Angela at a payphone and realize what's going on. She's driving him crazy just like she drove Rose crazy. He has dreams of sacrificing and eating a baby. When he goes to work the next day, he attacks George Nesbitt, who has passed his polygraph test twice. Raines gives Bruce a sedative of some sort.
Bruce talks to John again and John reveals that he's taking the blame for his daughter's rape because he kicked his son out for being gay. In this revelation, Bruce realizes that he's not being followed. He and Rose and John have all fallen under a mass hysteria created by their own minds. He gets home and two men attack him. He fights them off and gets a gun from a drawer. It's George and his friend. George tells him everything
Bruce goes to talk to Angela. He ends up locking the pastor in a different room and confronting her. She threatens to tell everyone about the kiss. He doesn't fall for her garbage again. Bruce explains the horrible circle of lies and madness they were all in and tells him not to cop to the child molestation charges the DA wants him to take. John takes a minimum of five years in the hopes that Angela would hate him less. He asks Bruce not to go after her.
It wasn't a great movie, but like many others... not the worst.
Moral of this movie: Girls are crazy. Believe them wholeheartedly or don't believe them at all, no in between.
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