Hippopotamus (2018)

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Avg Rating: 3.9 / 5. Voted: 63

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Directed by: Edward A. Palmer
Starring: Ingvild Deila (Ruby), Stuart Mortimer (Tom)
Country: UK, Effed Up British Movies
Language: English (Optional Eng Subs)
Runtime: 01:17:01
Genres: Captivity-Kidnapping

Plot – Spoilers:
Somewhere in Scotland, Ruby is being held captive in an underground room. Tom, her captor, claims he’s kidnapped her and will keep her there until she falls in love with him. There are slow reveals that suggest things may not be as they seem.

Thoughts on the Ending – Massive Spoilers:
Rather than Tom’s lukewarm lovestory, it’s more likely that what he told her at the beginning is the truth. Ruby will be forced into unlimited iterations until she actually falls in love with him. Her notes to herself are from a previous version that still had some control of her memories and who realized she would soon be Tom’s mindslave. The number of matchsticks found indicates a fairly-long period of captivity and her white-top and shorts version might also have been repeated before our eyes.

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9niya
9niya
July 8, 2023 1:32 am

Someone explain the ending please cause wtf just happened !! Didn’t she kill him!!??

charley m
charley m
May 28, 2023 9:55 pm

Good movie, it’s not slow as it’s not an action movie, the woman is getting mind fucked and so is the viewer, which takes time, and it works, quite well.
A true psychological thiller.

kvothe
kvothe
December 24, 2021 1:54 am

Much better than I expected; I like the ending as well. The pace is slow, and it has flaws, but overall it was much better than a lot of the captivity/imprisonment movies tend to offer.

! see ya ¡
! see ya ¡
September 9, 2021 8:23 pm

Hey admin,
Thanks for your hard work running the site!
Watching the movie made me feel CONTEMPT.
The character Tom justified KIDNAPPING (so he could HELP the girl).
Unfortunately a sliced jugular didn’t kill him.
It is impossible to accept he was HELPING the girl
with syringes, pills, sleep deprivation and
sadistic mental TORTURE.

Angrycomie
Angrycomie
September 9, 2021 8:15 pm

An Incels dream

cheese guy
cheese guy
September 4, 2021 11:10 pm

WTF JUST HAPPENED

The White Horseman
The White Horseman
September 3, 2021 5:19 am

Jesus what a boring movie. Nothing happens!!

Wanderer
Wanderer
Reply to  The White Horseman
September 4, 2021 7:22 pm

You are boring. Nothing happens in your brain.

Villain Queen
Villain Queen
September 1, 2021 12:40 pm

Actually quite a good installment in the kidnapping romance genre. A slow burn but the ending is quite worth it for at least daring to be a little different than the typical Lifetime schlock. Tom’s voice is quite appealing.

dato
dato
August 29, 2021 11:51 pm

big fat piece of uneventful boring dogshit. whoever made this should not have made it.

Hahahahah
Hahahahah
August 28, 2021 12:57 pm

Good movie.

ruby rain
ruby rain
August 26, 2021 7:37 pm

aww,Tommy has a crush on me,how cute ????
wtf tryna spy on her then violently blowing his nose?! also she’s mad ugly
but all of this could’ve been solved much sooner if he just brought her to the damn hospital
unless he killed that dude?i’m not sure if he did kill him but it’s the only explanation why he would do this.he’s still retarded to go through all of this shit just to bring back the most boring bitch with no personality whatsoever also the sex scenes were so fucking painful to watch that’s the most boring sex i’ve ever seen terrible so fucking vanilla and predictable it’s ridiculous
WTF IS THAT FUCKING ENDING BITCH!wtf tf ????????????????????

ruby rain
ruby rain
Reply to  ruby rain
August 29, 2021 12:35 am

ahh who tf dared to dislike my comment i am mad hurt ????

TypicalGirls
TypicalGirls
Reply to  ruby rain
August 29, 2021 8:17 am

MAJOR SPOILERS The entire backstory of their relationship is made up of false memories he has planted in her mind through repetition (note that all the “memories” of their past relationship take place in dark candlelight, like their candlelit dinners underground). The number of matchsticks hidden in the wall shows how many times they have gone through this same scenario. The title of the movie refers to the hippocampus of her brain, which he has damaged to fuck with her memory.

He probably likes her because she has big boobs.

ruby rain
ruby rain
Reply to  TypicalGirls
August 29, 2021 10:36 pm

yeah,i figured at the end and i also figured that i was too lazy to erase all of it.i take notes while watching and then comment.i agree,pretty much the only good thing about her.why am i getting dislikes tho ☹️????????????????????

TypicalGirl
TypicalGirl
Reply to  ruby rain
September 5, 2021 3:40 am

I don’t know, your comments are very stream-of-consciousness. I only give dislikes to the creepy pedos on here. ????

lulu
lulu
August 26, 2021 5:27 pm

so romantic :((

Porușniuc Adina
Porușniuc Adina
August 25, 2021 10:14 am

Not bad! love this site

Badmoviejoe
Badmoviejoe
August 23, 2021 2:42 pm

Good not great slow burn but you’ve seen it before. Just think Momento had a baby with The Room. Good watch but I don’t think there’s rewatch potential.

babyeater
babyeater
August 23, 2021 10:19 am

dont waste ya time last 6min is where anything happens ima go kill myself now yey would be more interesting than this pile of shit fuck bml

Badmoviejoe
Badmoviejoe
Reply to  babyeater
August 23, 2021 3:04 pm

What where you looking for in a captivity movie? Single set piece, lots of dialog, slow burning development. I’m trying to figure out what you expected to see. Cars blowing up? This is like watching a movie called Gay AF and shocked at men kissing.

Vampire Cat
Vampire Cat
Reply to  Badmoviejoe
January 19, 2022 3:28 am

is Gay AF II out on VHS yet?

skye
skye
Reply to  Badmoviejoe
October 3, 2022 10:15 pm

where can i find this men kissing film out of interest