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Spellbound
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy elegant psychological mysteries that blend romantic tension, Freudian symbolism, and stylized suspense.
- Tone
- cerebral, tense, romantic
- Payoff
- revelation, swoon
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- identity, memory, guilt, psychoanalysis, trust
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, secluded psychiatric hospital and snowy rural estates