Clinical (2017)
3/10
poorly executed
2 December 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I honestly thought the girl Nora Green killed herself at the beginning, and Dr Mathis was either having nightmares about her or seeing her ghost all throughout the film. All of a sudden at the end they reveal she was alive the whole time until like 2 days before the final stage of the movie.

Much of the movie, she is helping a man called Alex, whose face has been severely damaged in some manner of accident and is later revealed to be the main bad guy who has an incestuous, possibly pedophilic relationship with his daughter who was Nora all along.

The movie, as I saw it, was basically like this: Dr Mathis is traumatized that her therapy sessions with Nora Green apparently failed with Nora killing herself, but not really killing herself, and only reluctantly takes on another trauma-heavy patient, Alex, while being haunted by Nora's ghost, or rather Nora herself since Nora apparently didn't die despite cutting her own throat.

At some point Nora breaks in and attacks her and she ends up killing Nora, for real this time, except not really for real, as she wakes up in a psychiatric hospital she had visited before where Nora had been, and is also under arrest. The psychiatric doctor guy shows her video from her home security system showing she didn't actually kill Nora, but her boyfriend Miles who burst in on her grabbing and shaking her because she was acting hysterical and he was like "CALM DOWN WHAT'S HAPPENING" until she stabbed him.

Mentioning Nora Green's case to the psychiatric doctor, it's revealed Nora told him that she killed her own father or something after sessions with Dr Mathis, and the doctor says she didn't kill her own father, and somehow Dr Mathis puts together that Alex with the Face is Nora's father. She then escapes the hospital and is kidnapped by Alex, who takes her to her home to torture her for supposedly messing up his incestuous relationship with Nora by making Nora go crazy and kill herself.

Dr Mathis then escapes, discovers Alex with the Face has also killed her own therapist and her friend, then she tries to jump out a window when Alex grabs her, and she grabs his face and tears off a huge chunk of his face skin.

Then she goes back in the house, and finds Alex sitting on the couch in the living room, apparently dead, with the huge chunk of his face missing. The movie then suddenly ends.

I have no idea what this twist ending was supposed to be that she was hallucinating killing Alex and ended up killing someone else, or not. If the twist ending was that Alex with the Face guy was the bad guy all along, it doesn't count as an ending because it happened while there was still like half an hour left in the movie. Then it just ended near the end, like they ran out of ideas or ran out of time.
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