Verónica (2017)

About a high school girl terrorised by something supernatural after a seance with her friends, this 2017 Spanish supernatural thriller, not to be confused with the other 2017 Spanish thriller titled Verónica, recalls It Follows with its retro synthesizer cool and high school setting, and there's also a strong whiff of The Conjuring series given the suggestion made via this movie's initial documentary stylings that the story is based on actual events, of itself a not very interesting approach for a movie of this type but used here in conjunction with some truly original creepiness to keep viewers on their toes.

★★★★☆

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Verónica (2017)

When a retired psychologist agrees to start seeing a new patient, it turns out she means for her consultations with this mentally ill stranger, who may or may not be responsible for the disappearance of her former therapist, to take place in the psychologist's remote forest hideaway with the two of them magically sharing the knowledge that sleepovers are a part of the bundled service, which is the point it becomes clear this psychological thriller is not going to be very intelligent no matter how many references to Freud and the Platonic forms it bandies around.

★★☆☆☆

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