Ethan Hawke plays a small-town Minnesota detective investigating a young woman's shocking accusation that her father sexually abused her as part of a satanic cult ritual, a case complicated when the father, despite no memory of the crime, confesses under the guidance of a psychologist (David Thewlis) using controversial regression-hypnosis techniques. Set against the real 1980s-90s 'Satanic Panic' moral hysteria, director Alejandro Amenábar's thriller probes how manufactured memories and mass hysteria can produce guilt as convincingly as genuine evidence. The film's slow-burn atmosphere favors psychological unease over explicit horror. It's a lesser-known entry in the Spanish director's filmography, exploring similar terrain of unreliable perception as his earlier 'The Others'.