NOCEBO
► RELEASED 8 DECEMBER 15 | 97 minutes
► Director Lorcan Finnegan
► Cast Eva Green, Mark Strong,
Chai Fonacier, Billie Gadsdon
That scientific title seems a curiously clinical choice. The nocebo effect is the opposite of the placebo: if you’re given a sugar pill and warned of side effects, it may cause you to exhibit them. The concept can be used to explain the effects of a curse. But here it’s pretty clear that the supernatural is real.