Kate Siegel is following up “The Haunting of Hill House,” “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” and “Midnight Mass” by tackling the horror genre in another medium. She toplines “Hypnotic,” an upcoming Netflix pic about a woman who gets far more than she bargained for after receiving treatment from a hypnotherapist.
Between jobs and diagnosed with general anxiety, Jenn (Siegel) finds it “hard to feel motivated.” When a friend recommends a visit to Dr. Meade (Jason O’Mara), a hypnotist who changed her life, Jenn agrees to seek treatment, but soon realizes that he’s doing far more harm than good. She’s losing track of time, can’t make sense of how she’s getting from one place to another, and having strange dreams. Jenn suspects that the doctor is trying to control her, and when she begins investigating him, discovers that he’s “basically a ghost” — he has no private residence or employees. Meanwhile, ideas he’s planted into her head are “[blossoming] into a whole new reality.”
Directed by “The Open House” filmmakers Suzanne Coote and Matt Angel, “Hypnotic” launches on Netflix October 27.
