A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
Acting
Chai Fonacier's stare could shatter glass.
Direction
Finnegan weaponizes the 'helpful immigrant' trope against you.
Production
The fashion house as haunted house — immaculate.
Director
Lorcan Finnegan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title refers to the placebo effect's evil twin — harm caused by negative expectation — and the film weaponizes this concept against Western medicine's dismissal of Filipino healing practices.
Eva Green's character is named Christine after 'The Phantom of the Opera' — another story of a disfigured woman hidden beneath a beautiful industry, except here the phantom is the labor she buried.
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