Hypnos (Spanish: Hipnos) is a 2004 Spanish horror film directed by David Carreras [ca] in his directorial debut,[1] and starring Cristina Brondo, Demián Bichir, Féodor Atkine and Natalia Sánchez.
Set in a hi-tech psychiatric institution, the plot follows Beatriz Vargas, a young psychiatrist specialised in hypnosis who pits herself into the brink of madness upon trying to help a traumatised girl.
The screenplay by David Carreras Solè and Juan Manuel Ruiz Córdoba adapts the novel Hipnos by Javier Azpeitia [es].
[2] Distributed by United International Pictures,[2] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 8 October 2004.
[6] Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be an "above-average psychodrama with a generally solid script cobbled together from the leftovers of David Fincher and M. Night Shamayalan [sic]".