Cured
2016 · 9m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Eric England, Jesse Burks
A young woman possessed by a demonic entity finds a doctor who practices unusual methods of exorcism. She turns to him for help.
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Possession-exorcism is horror scaffolding older than cinema itself, and this plays it remarkably straight—which almost becomes interesting by accident, like watching someone nail a genre exercise so competently it loops back to feeling uncanny.
A formally disciplined descent into body horror that understands its debts to folk-horror and clinical psychological thriller traditions; the restraint in the editing mirrors the doctor's own methodical, almost ritualistic approach.
The entire film pivots on the choice to keep the "cure" genuinely ambiguous—is this exorcism or exploitation?—and that refusal to resolve into comforting genre certainty is what transforms nine minutes of possession into something that actually lingers.