“Nocebo” (** out of four) was a half-baked horror suspense thriller about a fashion designer (Eva Green) who has a mysterious illness that baffles doctors and perplexes her husband (Mark Strong); an alternative medicine specialist (Chai Fonacier) arrives and offers relief but they soon wonder her real underlying intentions and how the cure she has given may have severe medical/psychiatric consequences. Intriguing storyline has a few pulsating scares and images but doesn’t shift into high-gear and thus peters out. Good performances do what they can to keep this on track. No relation to either the 2014 or 2016 films of the same name.

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