The Hideout (2007)

Original title

Il nascondiglio

Directed by

Pupi Avati

Genre

thriller film

Country

Italy, United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

14+

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 57 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman moves into an old mansion to start a new life after spending 15 years in a mental asylum. She begins to hear voices and see things, making her doubt her sanity again. She eventually uncovers a gruesome crime that happened in the house 50 years earlier.

tensegloomyatmosphericunsettlingslow-burnmysteriousparanoidspooky

What happens

The Hideout (Italian: Il nascondiglio) is a 2007 Italian-American mystery film written and directed by Pupi Avati. It marked the comeback of Avati to the thriller genre (a genre he had successfully explored decades before in films such as The House with Laughing Windows and Zeder) after a series of intimate dramas and nostalgic comedies. A more silent but very well made film from the Giallo Genre by Pupi Avati, that plays perfectly with the dark, gloomy atmosphere of an old, spooky house and its deadly secrets. The protagonist of the film spent 15 years of her life in a mental asylum, recovering from a nervous breakdown, after her husband committed suicide. With the intention to start a new life and to open a restaurant, she moves into an old, historical mansion. But she starts to feel she is not alone in this big, dark, building.. hearing frightening voices in the darkness and seeing things in the house, she starts to doubt her own mental sanity again, until she discovers a gruesome crime that happened 50 years back and its horrible secret. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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