Best movie of this year hands down!

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This film was innovative, thought provoking, and brilliantly constructed. If you enjoy movies that require thought and don't spoon feed you everything you won't be disappointed. If I had to liken it to another film it would be 12 Monkeys, which was also packed with symbolism. Definitely heavily psychological and the horror element is not to be taken at all literally.After reading multiple reviews, It seems as though disappointingly few have attempted to analyse this film as symbolic. Obviously a great deal here is not happening in the literal sense of the word, but what exactly is going on? I suspect the time in the psychiatric hospital was meant to be an actual event, as was the murder committed by his brother that he recounts midway through the movie. Whether or not he is actually residing in the house, or whether it is meant to represent a feeling of confinement I am unsure, but I would argue that the real events end with these few sub plots.Here we have an individual battling mental illness who seems to be systematically reliving painful events from his past that he has yet to come to terms with. The shopkeeper is likely a parallel for the crush who was murdered (which would explain the absurd scene of the two talking over juice boxes). The protagonist references his belief that his father hates him, which is resolved by a scene in which he discovers a (likely imagined) video of his father stating how much he loves him. The mother "abandoning" him upon admission to the psych hospital is explained in his mind by her confinement in the basement. He states she never spoke to him again, which he seems to imagine is explained by her cut out tongue. These delusions allow him to move past the pain the experiences caused. Even the final scene is almost a 1:1 for the murder he witnessed, but failed to stop. Except this time he intervenes and saves the girl, who then saves him from drowning at the hands of his brother, a direct reversal of the original traumatic event. The final scene in the movie entails the police showing up and simply asking "Is this your house". He smiles and replies, "It is now." The house has represented his mind and the demons he is battling the whole time. Only after coming to terms with the events of his childhood and reimagining the traumatic event of the murder, this time as something he prevented, is he finally free. This is also indicated by him pulling the calendar with his countdown to freedom off the door, as he no longer needs it. The psychological battle has been won and the house (his own mind) is finally his. This movie makes no sense if viewed superficially as something that is happening exactly as we see it depicted. But the trademark of many mental illnesses is belief in unbelievable things. Delusion is by definition illogial, irrational, and often terrifying. In terms of a depiction of the struggle of a haunted and unreliable mind, everything in this film fits like a glove.

Normally I do not like horror movies built on the idea that the protagonist is mentally ill, and that one does not know if what he sees is real or only hallucinations as an effect of his illness (or alternatively a side effect of his medication). That concept has been overused in horror movies from this century. But apart from that, I think this movie was really good. There were many good scares, many creepy discoveries, good acting and generally high production values.

It was good and makes you wonder. Worth watching!! Everyone will have their own opinion so don't let some reviews deter you, also don't read most of them because they give away to much of the movie.

I will say at once - I bought into the experience of producers, who successfully lit up in well-known and successful works.The plot immediately seemed to me hackneyed and beaten, but I had not been to the cinema for a long time, and there were no intelligible alternatives to the film, so I went to the "Hysteria" with a weakly fading hope for at least an average job. Yeah, how.In general, the plot is entirely based on one uncomplicated intrigue - is it really happening - or not? And the idea is quite good for itself, but normally it is not realized, because when the curtain falls, there is no such shock from the re-recognition seen as it was in the "Mind Games" or in the "Voices" because the authors did not really play on the basis of deviations of the protagonist, about what is happening really - no, just here you have a couple of scramblers and all.A separate mention is worthy of the female character of the courier, who in the film is present at the level - just to be. The character is not specified at all - no one who she is, or why she clings to the hero is incomprehensible, the heroine's motivation is absolutely zero, despite the fact that she is essentially one of the main characters, so I hoped until the end that at least at her expense the creators would pull out a picture from the bottom, adding an interesting background to the girl, so that what happened had any meaning.The result - the main theme is not disclosed, and the final is predictable.