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A Cure for Wellness

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A Cure for Wellness

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Horror mystery starring Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs and Mia Goth. When Pembroke, the CEO of a major American company, refuses to return from a Swiss mountain spa, ambitious executive Lockhart is sent to bring him back. However, Lockhart's attempts to retrieve the prodigal Pembroke plunge him into a centuries-old mystery that threatens both his sanity and his life.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Madder than a box of frogs - or should that be an isolation chamber of eels? - director Gore Verbinski's rather meandering supernatural fantasy remains an elegant elixir-of-life shocker. Financial whizzkid Lockhart (Dane DeHaan), out to curry favour with his company's bigwigs, is sent to retrieve his ailing boss who's undergoing treatment at a strange clinic high in the Swiss Alps. However, once Lockhart is forced to become a patient after breaking his leg, he starts delving into the spa's signature illness and its miraculous remedies formulated by the mysterious Dr Volmer (Jason Isaacs), and the full age-old horror is nightmarishly uncovered. Verbinski choreographs his game cast through a preposterously engaging scenario with a fluid command of the genre, and the film is meticulously stylish throughout thanks to resplendent visuals and sharp attention to design detail, especially in the vast laboratory labyrinth. Despite things turning rather unsavoury, Verbinski's first scary movie since his remake of The Ring in 2002 is saved by echoing classic Hammer horror in a delightfully arcane climax, and is surely bound for curio cultdom.

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Cast

rolenameLockhartDane DeHaanDr VolmerJason IsaacsHannahMia GothVictoria WatkinsCelia ImrieDeputy DirectorAdrian SchillerEnricoIvo NandiPembrokeHarry GroenerPieter the vetMagnus KrepperHollisLisa BanesWilsonCarl LumblyHank GreenDavid BishinsVolmer Institute nurseSusanne Wuest

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rolenameDirectorGore Verbinski

Details

Theatrical distributor

20th Century Fox

Released on

2017-02-24

Languages

English | German

Guidance

Violence, swearing, nudity

Available on

DVD

Formats

Colour

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