Spoiler--hoax or true.

As you are asking for that and putting in the title, it goes for a case of hoax. The idea is you as viewer begin thinking it as something real that goes more and more complex every moment to finally get down to Earth aproximately at the same moment as the detective to know it all.

Hoax, just as much as the misleading advertising for this unfortynaly lame tame flick. You do get to see ms. Watson's gorgeous derrière though...no, wait, that's also a hoax.

This movie basically says satanic rituals and all the evil in the world is a figment of our imagination and that the world is warm and fuzzy...it also indicates that baby murder and rape is a myth😂😂😂

This film, although not well done, was cathartic for me as I am one of
those in whom false memories were implanted; me and many of the young
women who sought treatment.

I was a young woman in grad school in the late 1980's who was
struggling with depression. I was hospitalized and through hypnosis
discovered that I'd been sexually abused. But, rather than empower me
to deal effectively with it, rather than giving me the tools to
function, the psychiatrist, who was 42 and just out of medical school
himself, kept me in a revolving door of hospital admissions, sending me
back each time I felt a twinge of suicidality. Rather than talking me
through it, he just admitted me again and again and again, 18 times
over a period of 18 months. He kept me weak, not strong, and would use
regression "therapy" along with sodium amatol interviews, to implant
false memories. Eventually, he had me (and several of the other young,
suggestible women in hospital) believing that we had not only had we
been sexually abused by everyone in our families, but that they'd been
members of satanic cults who had sex with us during ceremonies,
performed several abortions on us, had us give birth, then kill and eat
the babies. No medical exam ever supported this, and one woman who
believed this was actually a virgin. They also had me believing that I
had multiple personalities as a result of this trauma.

So, yes, this DID happen, and I was one of the victims of this type of
psychiatric abuse. It took me 5 years to stop hallucinating that blood
was flowing down the walls at night, and even longer to sleep through
an entire night or to gain any weight, as I weighed less than 100 lbs
(I'm 5'6") for years afterwards.

The psychiatrist is still allowed to practice, but the hospital where
all this happened is no longer in business due to the multiple lawsuits
against it for this False Memoriy-Satanic Cult-Multiple Personality
Disorder issue.

So, even though this film isn't well done, for me it's an extremely
important one because it exposes what happened to thousands of young
women during the late 1980's-early 1990's to the light. After believing
what wasn't real, to see it exposed to the light of day, makes what
happened more real, and reaffirms, at least for this victim, that it
did happen and that it was that scary. And I lived to tell the tale-
several committed suicide shortly thereafter. I'm still alive.

This film, although not well done, was cathartic for me as I am one of
those in whom false memories were implanted; me and many of the young
women who sought treatment.

I was a young woman in grad school in the late 1980's who was
struggling with depression. I was hospitalized and through hypnosis
discovered that I'd been sexually abused. What was insidious was that I actually had been sexually abused by a few family members, but this fact was used as the real foundation on which to build false memories, further confusing the issue, blurring what was real from what was unreal. My sense of reality was at stake, and psychosis was just a few short steps away. And, rather than empower me
to deal effectively with the actual sexual abuse, rather than giving me the tools to
function, the psychiatrist, who was 42 and just out of medical school
himself, kept me in a revolving door of hospital admissions, sending me
back each time I felt a twinge of suicidality. Rather than talking me
through it, he just admitted me again and again and again, 18 times
over a period of 18 months. He kept me weak, not strong, and would use
regression "therapy" along with sodium amatol interviews, to implant
false memories. Eventually, he had me (and several of the other young,
suggestible women in hospital) believing that we had not only had we
been sexually abused by everyone in our families, but that they'd been
members of satanic cults who had sex with us during ceremonies,
performed several abortions on us, had us give birth, then kill and eat
the babies. No medical exam ever supported this, and one woman who
believed this was actually a virgin. They also had me believing that I
had multiple personalities as a result of this trauma.

So, yes, this DID happen, and I was one of the victims of this type of
psychiatric abuse. It took me 5 years to stop hallucinating that blood
was flowing down the walls at night, and even longer to sleep through
an entire night or to gain any weight, as I weighed less than 100 lbs
(I'm 5'6") for years afterwards.

The psychiatrist is still allowed to practice, but the hospital where
all this happened is no longer in business due to the multiple lawsuits
against it for this False Memoriy-Satanic Cult-Multiple Personality
Disorder issue.

So, even though this film isn't well done, for me it's an extremely
important one because it exposes what happened to thousands of young
women during the late 1980's-early 1990's to the light. After believing
what wasn't real, to see it exposed to the light of day, makes what
happened more real, and reaffirms, at least for this victim, that it
did happen and that it was that scary. And I lived to tell the tale-
several committed suicide shortly thereafter. I'm still alive.