Veronica (Carlos Algara Alejandro & Martinez-Beltran, 2017)

Confusingly, both this Mexican thriller and a Spanish film by the same name came out at the same time: this one is to do with a retired female psychiatrist who agrees to treat a young woman with an undiagnosed trauma at her house in the mountains. The relationship between the two soon turns twisted and sexual, and then, having promised so much more with the foreboding mood it set up to begin with, sails directly into cloud cuckoo land. Doubtless, the directors thought that they were making some kind of homage to Hitchcock with all the twists and psychological references they lay on, but what they have actually created is no better than an off-the-shelf slasher.

4/10