George was seeking revenge after Bruce detained him as a child molester and ruined his career. Though the professor is initially resistant to the idea, he too comes to suspect that these memories were not real.īruce is attacked by two hooded figures who finally reveal themselves as George and their colleague, Farrell ( Aaron Abrams). He tells Kenneth that all these past memories are induced by therapy and the whole situation is just the result of mass hysteria. He concludes that his imagination has run away with him. He sees a soup advertisement on the street and recognizes the woman in it as the one he sees in his nightmares. Shocked, Bruce leaves her there and returns to his home. Bruce meets Angela in the church's cemetery to reassure her and after an emotional outburst, she kisses him. Rose jumps from the window of her house after seeing ghostly figures, injuring herself. Bruce starts to experience the same things and his nightmares increase in intensity. She tells him that her mother received miscellaneous calls and saw strange figures staring at her in the street before she herself had an accident. Angela tells him that the cult is out to kill her as she has shown her demonic mark to him and that he is in danger as well. Meanwhile, Bruce begins having nightmares involving satanic rituals. Bruce and Kenneth suspect Roy's grandmother, Rose Gray ( Dale Dickey), has some involvement but find nothing after a search of her house. Using the regression technique on him, he recalls hooded figures entering his room while he was young. Detectives suspect a satanic cult is involved because of Angela's testimony, in which Angela says that she was abused by people in masks and someone took pictures of it.īruce and Kenneth meet Angela's estranged brother Roy Gray ( Devon Bostick) to inquire about why he left the house. They detain him but fail to find evidence against him. They seek the help of Professor Kenneth Raines ( David Thewlis) to use recovered-memory therapy on John Gray to retrieve his memories, and come to suspect that their colleague Detective George Nesbitt ( Aaron Ashmore) is involved. Detective Bruce Kenner ( Ethan Hawke) investigates the case of John Gray ( David Dencik), who admits to sexually abusing his 17-year-old daughter Angela ( Emma Watson) but has no recollection of the abuse. The film takes place in Minnesota, in 1990. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics. It was released in the United States on October 9, 2015, by The Weinstein Company under the banner RADiUS-TWC. The film had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 18, 2015. The film stars Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson, with David Thewlis, Lothaire Bluteau, Dale Dickey, David Dencik, Peter MacNeill, Devon Bostick, and Aaron Ashmore in supporting roles. Regression is a 2015 psychological thriller horror mystery film directed and written by Alejandro Amenábar.

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