Paranormal Xperience

Fear moves the world.

Fear of death, of failure.

You're here to learn how to control it.

Try to keep calm.

Cutie.

First of all: Thank you all for volunteering.

The 5 of you are the bravest of all.

I'm sure you'll remember this experience.

Volunteering?

Your participation will obviously

contribute to improving my concept of you.

Do we have to be tied down? It's so tight.

Please, try to relax.

If this leaves any marks on me...

You look kind of sexy all tied up.

Shut up and concentrate.

You shouldn't take this as an easy way to satisfy my whims.

Many of my explanations will start to make sense in this test.

What's that?

A little first-aid kit. Just in case.

"Just in case" what?

I need a volunteer.

Are you going to ask us to dance?

Jose, shut up a while, dude.

You'll do.

- No, thanks, I'm good. - Come on, you wimp.

Coward.

Who the fuck asked you, you freak?

OK, fine.

Fuck... is that a scalpel?

Wait a minute...

- What's that for? - Angela, what's going on?

Chill. He told me it's a psychological test with no risks.

And it is.

And now, young man, you're going to experience for yourself

the influence of mind over the somatic.

He cut me...

He cut me. Son of a bitch. He cut me. Untie me.

He cut him!

This is a joke, right?

Before you lose your cool, I'll explain the object of all this.

The situation is this:

your friend is bleeding.

Starting from this premise, besides his ability to bleed,

your friend also has the ability to stop bleeding.

That doesn't make sense.

OK, chill! Listen, asshole. I'll kill you if you touch me.

Stop bleeding? How the fuck can I?

You just need to concentrate and want it.

You know who my dad is? You're up the legal shit creek! This is wrong!

It's impossible to stop it!

Impossible... no. Just hard.

It depends on your friend's will.

It's the placebo effect principle.

Mind controls body.

Behind a scientific facade, western medicine

is based on any illness being cured with a drug.

But the mind is stronger than any drug.

Just believe it's possible.

OK, Jose, you can do it, concentrate.

What the fuck? He can stop bleeding 'cause he wants to?

I cut his radial artery.

If he can't, he'll pass out soon and then he'll die.

What!?

We'll try not to let it happen.

So let us go, fucking whacko!

That's impossible.

Dude, drop it. I get what this is about. Just let me go?

Jesus, he's lost his mind! Help!

Miss, no one can hear you.

Shit! Shit.

He wants to kill us!

Untie me, I feel awful. Please! I'm starting to see spots everywhere.

Son of a bitch!

Please! Untie him or he'll die.

Jose, look at me. It's important you don't pass out. You hear me?

I want to go home!

Let us out of here!

Here you have the power of the psyche.

If it can relieve a symptom, it can also generate one.

Your friend, convinced that he was bleeding to death,

passed out.

Some scary stuff, wasn't it?

And the blood?

Pig's blood...

You should have seen your faces.

You knew all about it!

Toni was an infiltrator in the group.

He had to cause panic. Create a climate of tension.

As future doctors, you can't let panic paralyze you.

Being overcome by fear can mean a patient's death.

Don't forget it.

I hope this whole exercise helps you pass next week's exam.

Carlos, cut it out.

Loser.

What exam?!

Let me remind you that most of those present are about to fail my class.

"Most" means all except this suck-up, right?

You said this experiment would help us pass.

And it will. Didn't you learn something new?

I'm surprised you had the guts to volunteer.

OK... I'll talk to him.

Hello?

Guys, you're such gentlemen...

Gonna help me or not?

Professor!

Professor.

Yes, young lady?

So exactly how is this experiment going to help our grades?

Always straight to the point!

I convinced my friends to participate to get us out of the final exam.

It looks like that won't be possible.

Why not? That was the deal.

I mean there are administrative questions, papers, red tape...

You clearly said the experiment would help us pass.

You lied to me.

Calm down, miss. Keep using that tone and you'll lose your grant.

Are you interested in paranormal studies?

Not very much.

A MINER IS TORTURED AND KILLED

What's this?

I doubt it'll interest you. It's a cursed town. Called Susurro.

Aren't you here to talk about grades?

A cursed town?

A mining company reopened the old Susurro mines in '63.

A few months later they left, claiming a presence was stalking them.

They found five miners mutilated, appallingly tortured.

There's a legend about the events. Dr. Matarga's sinister spirit.

Dr. Matarga's sinister spirit?

The town doctor. After the war he tortured and killed over 20 people.

But there's nothing paranormal about that.

And if I told you he went on killing after his death?

I'd say you're lying.

Once again.

Can you scientifically define a paranormal phenomenon?

Self-suggestion.

You believe in ghosts, you want to see and hear ghosts.

A shiver or a draft gets interpreted as more than what it really is.

Obsession creates the symptom.

I saw you didn't get scared during the experiment.

I knew it was a bluff.

And if there was proof that Dr. Matarga's ghost is still in Susurro?

Is there?

No. No one has dared investigate it.

And if we do a study and I prove to you it's all superstition?

Prove how our mind can trick us.

Go right ahead. You have until exam day to hand in your conclusions.

Then we'll talk about your grades.

Look what I took.

You're so childish.

Later...

maybe.

OK, let's see if I got this straight.

How will we spend the night? In one of those bags you sleep in?

You can sleep with us, you'll be warmer.

You're going to do paranormal research?

Why don't you stick it up your ass, you fucking freak.

You need me.

What, so now you want friends?

Why do you think we need you?

I know what equipment to use.

Infrared night vision cameras, digital recorders,

and other stuff you don't even know how to use, but I do.

Right, beat it, loser.

Wait, we actually might need him.

How do we take all the equipment?

We don't fit in my Mini.

Don't worry, I'll take care of it.

We're closed.

She's my sister.

Back in an hour.

How are you?

Good, good. And you?

Not bad.

Dad's watch. I see you still wear it.

It's all I have to remember him by. It shouldn't bother you.

There's nothing to remember.

So tell my why you're here.

What? Can't I just come to see my sister?

Always to ask for something.

The van.

I can't lend it to you, I need it.

For what? All you do is work. You don't go out, you have no friends.

What do you know?

- I'm not criticizing you. - It sounds like it.

I need it for a University project. It's important.

What's the project about?

Paranormal research.

Those things always interested you.

Why don't you come?

Think about it. But if you do, bring the van.

Do you think about the future?

What about the future?

One day you'll tell me how that happened.

It's nothing, I told you.

I was ten and I can't remember.

You never tell me anything about your past. You never tell me a thing.

Weren't you supposed to go home 2 months ago?

I can see our future:

a long dark night you won't be able to escape from.