Amnesiac

Plot synopsis:
The film begins with a family of three travelling along a highway. The scene ends with a child screaming, and the male protagonist (Wes Bentley) is seen resting in a bed, in a large room, attached to hospital equipment. The female protagonist (Kate Bosworth) visits him dressed in formal business attire, which is a frequently re-occurring theme in the film.
The male protagonist is shown to become suspicious of the female protagonist, who claims to be his wife. When she leaves to conduct errands, the male protagonist explores the house. After leafing through a photo album, he searches the basement where he finds a film projector, medical tools, anatomy charts and books, and a corpse hidden in a cabinet. He confronts the female protagonist when she returns home, who explains that the corpse is her first husband before knocking the man unconscious and drugging him.
The male protagonist wakes up restrained to a bed, his captor being the female protagonist. She administers shock treatment, telling him that he must provide a family for her if he wishes the ordeal to end. When asked why the photo album contains no photographs of the female protagonist of her late husband, the two become involved in a physical confrontation. He attempts to subdue her, but is in turn subdued when hit with a nearby vase. He is restrained, but escapes briefly before being knocked unconscious. A visiting postman is killed by the female protagonist who pushes the body into the basement. A detective assigns an officer to investigate a report regarding a missing visitor, who is the mailman.
While the female protagonist dismembers the postman downstairs, the officer comes to the door. She attempts to gain entry to the premises, and is promptly killed by the female character. It is at this point that the detective begins investigating the premises himself.
The male protagonist asks about the little girl he sees in brief memory flashbacks. The female protagonist reveals a little girl in a cage and claims she is their daughter Audrey. When released, the girl grabs a knife and attacks. However, the female protagonist renders Audrey unconscious and puts her in a bathtub.
The detective shows up at the front door, interrupting the female protagonist as she prepares to perform a lobotomy on the male protagonist. After sending the detective away, she goes to drown Audrey in the bathtub. The male character breaks free and renders his captor unconscious with the lid of the toilet, but collapses on the floor whilst the girl escapes from the house.
He wakes in a hospital bed, where he is interviewed by the detective. On asking about the girl thought to be his daughter, it is revealed that she is actually the daughter of Mason Williams. Both protagonists willfully kidnapped Audrey hoping that the ransom money would pay for the female protagonist's fertility treatments. The male protagonist claims that his ex-captor killed all of the people discovered in the house, but the detective reveals that the she was never found.
Dressed as a nurse, the female protagonist infiltrates the hospital and euthanises her ex-hostage.

Tags: flashback, neo noir, murder, home movie

Review:
I'd have to say that most reviews here are spot on (as ever) apart from the obvious 'shill' (who even kindly reminds us it's on Amazon!) The film struggles throughout.
Even Nicole Kidman clone Kate Bosworth again shows she can't act for toffee as do the rest of the cast with alarming consistency.
Bosworth's inaudible mutterings attempt to give a semblance of coherence to the dreadfully thin plot, the only convincing performance was the one from the cat who, in fairness delivered his 'miaows' with sublime skill and is the highlight of this dreary, poorly produced mumblefest..
Reminds me of "Misery" but with a totally different angle.What surprised me even more is that I always thought Kate Bosworth was a terrible actress and I have now changed my opinion somewhat as she was really very good in this role.The twist in the tale was totally unexpected and made the film even more interesting.
I guess when the story draws you in and you become immersed you are less likely to try and work things out and criticise but just let the story take you to the endpoint.I think I must be the only person in the reviews section that has given this a good review and I don't know why as the film was really rather good, apart from some plot holes; like who was the previous husband in the cupboard and why did the new guy not know about it or maybe he did as he had lost his memory and went along with it all because he did in fact love the main protagonist..
worst film in history.
I've set up an account just to rate this outrageously dull movie.
The 'twist' at the end is just as boring as the rest of the movie.
Ridiculous acting Ridiculous plot A complete waste of money I should have taken note of the other reviews and not even bothered with this movie.............................................
.. One of the worst movies ever!.
Someone tell what the hell was Kate Bosworth thinking when she took such a role.
First let me just say that, the movie was just awful.
Bosworth did her best in trying to convince the audience of being some detached and cruel woman who's bitterness and hate was kept behind a phony smile and loving way to Wes who was her husband.
But in the end neither character brought enough convincing to their roles leaving me very upset that I burnt more than an hour of my life, watching one of the worst movies ever.
So many holes in the story horrible movie.
This movie tries so hard to be suspenseful and just fails completely falls flat.
I thought that with the actors in this movie it would be a decent show...
Wish I could get back the time I wasted watching this show.
Tell your friends to not waste their time.
Just does not make sense how things this movie tries to portray could happen.
You can see from the other reviews that it is just a waste of a movie and time.
I really hope these actors chose a better movie to be in for their next project...
It has that Stephen King's "Misery" vibe going for it in a huge way, but better.
This movie has a beautiful twist beyond what is expected; great story.
The acting is impeccable and holds the reality within the characters keeping the movie feeling alive and more on a real world versus an in cinema vibe.I tend to not watch a whole lot of horror now days as most are poorly put together and become more the T&A blood gore than anything as this film doesn't.
Amnesiac has that dark intelligent intent that drives the story and film all at once and I find it truly refreshing to experience it.
Great film for it's genre..
I was originally drawn to this film because the trailer was reminiscent of Steven King's "Misery, unfortunately, the trailer is the best thing about the film.
This movie is so slow, and possibly feels even slower, because of the nonstop piano music that is used to drive the nonexistent tension.
I have always wanted to watch a slasher film where the serial killer is a female, but Kate Bosworth completely missed the mark.
I painstakingly watched the rest of the movie hoping that the story would eventually bring some clarity, but the resolution is just as forgettable as the previous hour and a half..
It's an excellent movie to watch when you have a dinner and a movie date with your partner; for the movie doesn't really demand your continuing focus, so you can take a sip, share a bite and perhaps make out a bit and guess what?
You haven't missed a thing, the movie is rolling on its own groggy pace, still at pretty much where you left off.
Great filmography, splendid staging, suggestive lighting and good acting by all.
There are cross worlds of movies you feel like you're in, as in Reiner's Misery, as in Amenâbar's The Other's.
Miss Bosworth's costume and mannerism is very much of Nicole Kidmans, the cool tempered eerie you-know-something-not-quite-right-but-can't-take-my- eyes-off-her beauty who makes sure the sun stays out and darkness creeps in, along with the door knockers.
Later on you see Kate's trivia quipping character transform from Nicole Kidman's loving care into Katie Bates' kind of loving.
Worst movie I've ever seen.
Please do yourself a huge favor and do not watch this movie.
I usually do not write movie reviews but this movie was just so awful I just had to share my experience and vent.
If you enjoy being annoyed by bad acting and an extremely slow moving film, then this is the movie for you.
An interesting, disturbing and creepy thriller about three people that get into an automobile accident: A couple and a girl (presumably the couple's daughter) are involved in an accident that renders the man (this character is not given a name in the move) an amnesiac.
What follows is a creepy, sometimes violent and disturbing story with an excellent twist of an ending.
Well acted with an excellent performance by Kate Bosworth.
It is on Amazon Prime and worth a look if you like interesting thriller/horror films..
A Strange, Slow, Meandering Movie.
To call it the worst movie ever made just shows that a person hasn't watched a lot of movies.
There are a few cringe-worthy moments contained within its hour and a half (but, yes, it did seem longer) but for the most part it just kind of meanders slowly along, with very little emotion or passion being shown by either Kate Bosworth or Wes Bentley, who both seemed to have little interest in what they were doing.They play a married couple (I don't remember any names being used for them.) As the movie opens they're in a car driving down a highway, and there's a young girl (their daughter, you assume) in the backseat.
Suddenly there's a horrible accident and the next thing you know the man wakes up in a dim, sparsely furnished bedroom, remembering nothing and being looked after by the woman.
The eventual revelation of what was going on did catch me by surprise, and that gains the movie a couple of points from me.
I have to admit that I just didn't really understand how the movie ended.Bosworth's performance was a kind of combination of Nicole Kidman (the look especially) and eventually it blends in some of Kathy Bates' character from Misery.
I watched this movie and I wish I hadn't.
It's just so poorly done in almost every regard, that describing it still wouldn't do justice to how spectacularly it fails.The poor excuse for a story was neither clever nor unique, and it made zero attempts are carving a new niche in the genre.
It is just a wannabe of a much better film, with a horrible script and poor acting.The actors are nice to look at (for the most part), but the casting was done solely as a superficial attempt to mask the inadequacies of everyone else involved.
Putting pretty people in your lead only serves to highlight all of the other garbage hiding beneath the surface.The movie tries so hard to be a mystery, a thriller, a horror movie, but it failed at every one.
There was no blood, no sex, no gore, and I counted one use of the F-bomb, but other than that, the movie was neither suspenseful of thrilling.
I have seen more horrific events happen on television.I just don't see whom this film was made for.
It's too tame for horror fans, too sophomoric for mystery fans, and way to slow for fans of the thriller genre.
They could have made this movie a bit more palatable if they didn't treat the audience like a bunch of sensitive babies.
This could be one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and one of the biggest wastes of time.
Throughout the movie, the plot is very repetitive: man wakes up groggy, goes downstairs where he shouldn't, wife tells him to rest, he is punished.
Overall this movie made me want to be the amnesiac..
Having watched quite lots of movies, I've kind of a special approach to rate some on first looks.
So this one starts with an opening scene, where a man is driving a car, a woman on the front seat besides him, and a girl on the rear bench seat.
It's a road like N° 1 - so especially on this road, but anyhow, the driver always has to look at the road.
He constantly looks back to the girl at the rear bench seat.
Would you consider a movie fascinating where you watch someone throwing his car key away to find him desperately trying to open his car without this key immediately afterwards?
No - I didn't think so in the first place, because it's not fascinating to only be a witness of blunt imbecility.So what is the wit of a movie opening scene, where the absolutely dumb, incompetent continuously backwards looking driver finally has his imperatively required accident?
There is none, there is only annoyance.Just to conclude my resentment against this movie: obviously the author doesn't like cats (which I love).
Anyway he uses them in this awful movie in that special way, that shows you (at least between the lines) that cats are bad and a no-good.
As the film goes on you will end up recalling Misery as Kate Bosworth moves from being a Nicole Kidman clone to a Kathy Bates one.Wes Bentley is involved in an auto-mobile accident and wakes up suffering from memory loss and a woman (Bosworth) claiming to be his wife but he starts to suspect that she may not be his real wife.
The man has hazy memories of a little girl and soon finds that he is being held prisoner in the house as the woman increasingly goes berserk.The film is a slack psychological horror, the story is too thin and the ending is abrupt..
What an awful waste of time, effort and money by all involved!...I am also thoroughly disappointed and can't believe this has been rated so high on here??...
Kate Bosworth's attempt of playing the in control nut-case is honestly enough to send the most mentally sound person into a full psychotic break...I can honestly say while watching this pointless train wreck of a movie I must have thought of 100 ways to torture Kate Bosworth!!!...and then her performance became contagious as Wes Bentley basically started mirroring the same features...
I still cant believe this movie has seriously been released????
Basically my advice is to slowly but methodically go back to the home page and chose another movie...ONLY MY ADVICE!!
This film had me intrigued throughout the whole thing.
Here we have our dread villain, Kate Bosworth, as the 'Woman' (who had a great performance) who does these atrocious actions against the protagonist.
Throughout the whole film I had a feeling it was coming.
So the Woman goes Kathy Bates, Misery-like, and inflicts her brutality on her husband for the audience.
Our tormented protagonist frees himself, saves a girl caged up (who freed herself and is now in a bathtub) from drowning by the Woman and knocks her out.Here is what gets me.
Idiot male protagonist goes along with said crazy wife to kidnap a girl, for money for her treatments, to help her have a child.
Husband decides that he doesn't want to do this (um, too late) and they get into the car wreck that was established at the beginning of the film.
So they are both wrong, quite obviously.Then here comes the worst bit.
Epilogue closes with crazy wife being the husband's nurse at the hospital (zero sense).
Wife gets away free so she can continue her torture spree.What really gets me is that this whole film had this woman dominance thing going.
It was like it was gratifying to constantly watch a man being gagged and tortured at the Woman's whim.
The film was saying, 'Ya, this is okay for a woman to do this to a man.
OH, it looks like he was just an accomplice.' (Still an accessory, of course)..
maybe i ask to much from the horror genre that some says its long time dead.maybe this actors that have no chemistry between them or it was a wrong choice of the director.maybe the director was a wrong choice of the whole thing who knows?one thing is for sure,this movie is not working.too bad it could be a good one.the location,cast and effects were minimal but that is not necessary bad in the horror genre.Kate Bosworth shows here how bad is her acting more than ever.I didn't buy her performance at all and from the first minutes of the film it was obvious she is not what she looks,they didn't give a chance for the viewer to works his brain....
Wes Bentley that usually i like a lot did nothing here to prove he is good as some say but again i don't think its his fault.
with another director and a change of actress this film could be much better thats for sure..
The film opens with a family in an auto accident.
His wife Kate Bosworth cares for him as a monotone sociopath.
The movie is a mystery as to what happened and where is the daughter?
(Olivia Rose Keegan) It was like watching "Miss Meadows" meets "Misery" as you anticipate the Hitchcock style twist.
Another dull movie stereotyping people who have cats.
This movie also seems like a second tier version of Stephen King's Misery.
It is dull, sloppy and very, very predictable, which is the worse thing is a intended to be thriller movie.
Wes Bentley plays an unnamed man who regains consciousness behind the steering wheel of a car after a crash.
He has no memory of what has happened except for a few sporadic flashbacks of a teenage girl in the back seat, and the blurred figure of a woman – presumably his wife – approaching him through the haze.Kate Bosworth plays the finely chiselled, perfectly poised wife (also unnamed).
When the man reawakens some time later, bathed in cool sunshine, recovering from his ordeal, the girl is suspiciously absent from the spacious family home?
The wife's obsession with cats, and her habit of littering conversations with random facts to keep her husband's brain alert, his realisation that there is nothing wrong with his 'broken' ankle  all these things pepper the story with an increasing strangeness.As if the husband's suffering is not enough, nice Dave the postman is soon dispatched, a sudden unveiling of the woman's insanity.
She will be released when the woman is made pregnant, as is the wife's insistent wish.In a satisfying twist, both the man and the woman are guilty of kidnapping young Audrey in order to raise money to pay for the wife's 'treatment' – she might even have caused the crash that caused her husband to lose his memory.
It is the wife, and last thing he hears are her words, 'I put things to sleep for a living, and they don't wake up.' This is an enjoyable mystery/lightweight horror with the final twist handled skilfully enough to make sense.
The story isn't quite as gripping as it would like to be.
The performances are uniformly good, especially from Hall – the characters remaining icy and detached throughout..
So, I didn't mind the slow pacing of the movie or the acting as I thought that it all worked together to create a sufficiently creepy atmosphere ...
If the man and the woman were working together all along then why on earth was the body of her 'previous husband' packed away in the cupboard in the basement?
You can't just throw that in there as a red herring to make the audience believe that, ooooooh, the woman is psychotic and has kidnapped men like this before, without explaining away the body when it turns out that the current 'kidnapped man' has been there by choice all along.
If she isn't kidnapping man after man in her attempts to get a child then why on earth was there a body in the cupboard before they even kidnapped the girl?.
I checked on IMDb about this film - titled "Unconscious" by my cable co.
So I added Kate Bosworth to the search and discovered it is also known as "Amnesiac".What a pity!
The other film had a rating above 6.
"Friends" is on now, so I will never know why this guy was lying unconscious, or amnesiac-al (?), on a bed being fussed over by Kate Bosworth, who was acting really strange, talking in inaudible whispers, and making the ridiculous plot so unworthy of further interest.So sorry if you wanted some genuine criticism of this nonsense, but I really couldn't be bothered.
My advice: watch something else ("Friends" is really good).