2017 · horror · mystery · sci-fi
A Cure for Wellness
Directed by Gore Verbinski2h 26m2017
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.
Our read: A Cure for Wellness (2017) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · mystery · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / mystery, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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