“My Husband’s Deadly Past” (**1/2 out of four) was an above-average suspense thriller about a woman (Sarah Butler) who is haunted by visions of murder which lead to her becoming arrested and imprisoned; subsequently, she realizes that her manipulative psychiatrist husband (Peter Benson) hypnotized her to hide his own role in the murder and that their daughter (Maddy Hillis) might also be in danger. Film cannot escape standard genre cliches and logic gaps but is slickly done with efficient direction from Troy Scott and a sharper-than-expected script by Paul A Birkett. Yet another contemporary attempt at a Hitchcokian story but succeeds more than most.

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