February 18, 2026

I saw this film on Prime, even though there isn't a release year attached to it here, IMDB says 2023.

It concerns disgraced and down on his luck, Jewish psychiatrist, Sam Allyn, who ends up working at the dilapidated Mt. Carmel Psychiatric Hospital, which specialises in Jerusalem Syndrome, people believing they are actually living persons from The Bible. One of the interred is 'Patient X' but is she suffering from this syndrome or could she be… read the rest.

I saw this film on Prime, even though there isn't a release year attached to it here, IMDB says 2023.

It concerns disgraced and down on his luck, Jewish psychiatrist, Sam Allyn, who ends up working at the dilapidated Mt. Carmel Psychiatric Hospital, which specialises in Jerusalem Syndrome, people believing they are actually living persons from The Bible. One of the interred is 'Patient X' but is she suffering from this syndrome or could she be far more important and is Sam just a psychiatrist or could he be there for another reason?

I quite liked this, not all of the performances were great but most were good, Seth Panitch who plays Sam, is sneeringly unlikeable and Jyreika Guest who is Patient X/Mirabeth, and who seems to have unnerving control over the other patients, is very solid. You do get some tropes of the possession/exorcism genre but there is a fresh coat of paint on the story because you don't know who is controlling who, exactly who they are and what side of the good/evil fence they sit on.

It is done on a modest budget but director Aaron Greer has done a pretty fair job at doing something, just a bit different, that kept me invested at least.

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