Eloise (2017)

What to Expect

Jacob, a struggling mechanic, learns that he is suddenly coming into a large inheritance when his estranged father passes away. We never learn what the problem with the two of them was - from mementos he sees, it looks like his dad cared for him - but Jacob seems to blame his father for ending up in juvy, and he is largely unaffected by his passing. Jacob learns that he must get into the annex of Eloise to obtain a death certificate for an aunt he never knew he had, a former patient of the hospital, in order to get the family money.

The film bears similarities to the far-superior anthology Patient Seven, though any resemblance is probably coincidental since they were filmed around the same time. Scenes are quickly spliced between the past and the present; in the vein of Last Shift, realistic hallucinations intermingle with scenes of past torture of mental patients, but it's hard to decipher at times whether we are seeing what's in the characters' imaginations or if these ghosts are stuck in a time loop that coexists with the present.