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A Cure for Wellness
Directed by Gore Verbinski
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. From TMDB
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A Cure for Wellness is a 2017 horror mystery science fiction film, directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs and Mia Goth.
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- posts span Jun 24, 2017 to Oct 31, 2026
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60 of 126 · most liked firstHey y'all - this weekend we had our first Gore Verbinski film in theaters in 9 years, so I thought this was the perfect time to celebrate A CURE FOR WELLNESS: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/a-man-cannot... I know it's a movie that isn't for everyone, but it sure as heck is for me.🖤
positive · AI labelView post →Did a lotta things early this morning. Left fin is barkin'. Time to chill before an ultrasound i have at 3. Watching A Cure For Wellness. This is a weird ass movie. Also, the place where it was filmed is a trip. Castle Hohenzollern, Germany.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film A Cure for Wellness (2016)
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched a Cure for Wellness finally and I have to say while I did enjoy the movie it felt confused in a few places. In particular it felt that, after a LOT of setup that felt more like medical torture horror than gothic, it failed to deliver on its hidden premise beyond a few beautiful sets.
neutral · AI labelView post →Eels show up in the 2016 horror movie A CURE FOR WELLNESS, where they are used to kill people and distill their essences into a sort of potion of immortality. Reviews of the film generally found that it was not esp. scary. Except for the eels, which were creepy AF. 4/6
neutral · AI labelView post →Eels show up in the 2016 horror movie A CURE FOR WELLNESS, where they are used to kill people and distill their essences into a sort of potion of immortality. Reviews of the film generally found that it was not esp. scary. Except for the eels, which were creepy AF. 4/6
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a movie about that, actually. I think it's called "A Cure for Wellness". Vampire eels, check. Eel cult, check. Vestal virgin, check. People full of eel eggs, check.
neutral · AI labelView post →SUPER underrated gothic horror movie, imo! A Cure For Wellness deserved better. 👍
positive · AI labelView post →It's been a pretty damn great run this past week. THE MONKEY is now my favorite movie of the year and my favorite Oz Perkins flick! And make sure to tune into @genrevision.com this Sunday for church services on A CURE FOR WELLNESS. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
neutral · AI labelView post →A Cure for Wellness, 2016 Gore Verbinski "Who the hell takes the waters in the 21st century anyway?" #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Eels show up in the 2016 horror movie A CURE FOR WELLNESS, where they are used to kill people and distill their essences into a sort of potion of immortality. Reviews of the film generally found that it was not esp. scary. Except for the eels, which were creepy AF. 4/6
neutral · AI labelView post →The tank scene in A CURE FOR WELLNESS, a movie I would kill to help get rediscovered and appreciated. We did our best at @genrevision.com. Next year will be its official tenth anniversary and I'm definitely going to shout its name from the magic mountaintop, even if I'm missing a few teeth.
positive · AI labelView post →Me: "Im getting some mild A Cure For Wellness vibes from this movie." *A wild Jason Isaacs appears.* Me:
neutral · AI labelView post →A Cure for Wellness was a really gorgeous film, I enjoyed the uneasy vibes and will be absolutely rewatching this. 🎥 boxd.it/6lIYRJ 🎥 #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →After a decade, I have FINALLY watched Gore Verbinski's A Cure for Wellness. I'm teetering between a 2.5 and a 3, but regardless I don't think this film was bad enough for 10 YEARS in director jail. Justice for Gore! #horrormovie #horrorsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Do any of you remember a peculiar horror film called A CURE FOR WELLNESS? I remember thinking that it was very visually handsome, but also a bit incoherent, and more damningly, far too long. I looked it up and it was nearly 2.5 hours. I cannot think of a single horror film I like of that length.
neutral · AI labelView post →🪱EPISODE 160 - A CURE FOR WELLNESS 🪱 We’re going back to 2017 for our 2nd Gore Verbinski movie in the Blast Zone, this time talking about the psychological gothic horror A CURE FOR WELLNESS
neutral · AI labelView post →Gore Verbinski deserves more credit for being a master of well-crafted pastiche. If you have not seen ‘Rango’ it is a delight far better than you would imagine. But boy howdy is ‘A Cure For Wellness’ the kind of gorgeous bad movie which only a very talented artist could create.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can't wait. I also can't wait for someone to let me shepherd a 4K Collector's Edition for A CURE FOR WELLNESS, a movie in desperate need of recognition as a masterwork of madness. genrevision.com/posts/cure-f...
positive · AI labelView post →Eels show up in the 2016 horror movie A CURE FOR WELLNESS, where they are used to kill people and distill their essences into a sort of potion of immortality. Reviews of the film generally found that it was not esp. scary. Except for the eels, which were creepy AF. 4/6
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "between my legs" to a movie title A Cure for Wellness between my legs. 🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →A Cure for Wellness [47] is a $4 VOD: www.metacritic.com/movie/a-cure... #11pmspecial "Mia Goth is as fine a name as can be imagined for the actress playing a creepy, hollow waif in A Cure for Wellness, & her name is practically a tag line for this fantastically eerie movie." - Kyle Smith
neutral · AI labelView post →Inspired by a “#fthismovie Friday Night Double Feature” - Today’s Horror Movie Marathon: “Goth Girl Saturday”! A Cure for Wellness | 2016 | Gore Verbinski Suspiria | 2018 | Luca Guadagnin Pearl + X | 2022 | Ti West Infinity Pool | 2023 | Brandon Cronenberg @j60660.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Also I guess most film critics aren't that familiar with sexual trauma and/or medical trauma which is what the "mixed reviews box office bomb" "A Cure for Wellness" is very much about. I mean yeah, capitalism too. In both blatant ways & subtle ways it drives the two forms of trauma.
positive · AI labelView post →The thing is, while it's not a great movie, A Cure for Wellness is ambitious and interesting, and I think Moby Dick needs a fair amount of serious darkness along with the capers and comedy.
neutral · AI labelView post →...and sometimes you sit down and realize you've just written 800+ words on why the 2016 movie A Cure for Wellness is a parable for US conservative politics in 2026. (Will probably wind up on my blog later this week.)
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness at a theater, an all-time weird moviegoing experience. It felt endless, like you were going to be in the theater watching the movie forever. Most of the audience walked about before the Dr Phibes craziness at the end
neutral · AI labelView post →Gore Verbinski returns with first film since A Cure for Wellness Sam Rockwell time-hops to stop a future dystopian meltdown in new trailer for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die #filmsky #movietrailer #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →#LastFourWatched except that there's at least one more shitty Lifetime movie that I haven't logged because my wife has been binging them. I will have to re-watch A Cure for Wellness to figure out how I feel about it (other than 'icky'). I respect it, though; Gore took a swing with that one. 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Alphabetized my displayed movie/show collection. I have so much more, but due to spacing issues, this is what I have displayed. I want to go through everything and show y'all my collection, all of which I have out because I ❤️ them. 1: A Cure For Wellness. #FilmSky #HorrorSky #PhysicalMedia
neutral · AI labelView post →We showed Tilman's Singer's creepy, brilliant LUZ at Offscreen Film Festival in Brussels a few years ago & I cannot wait to see CUCKOO, his latest. Am a big fan of Mad Clinic Movies (qv ANATOMY, A CURE FOR WELLNESS etc) & a dedicated follower of The Bonkers Performances of Dan Stevens.
neutral · AI labelView post →🎥 Can we talk about how amazing A Cure For Wellness was and how criminally underrated it is? That movie deserved so much more than it got.
positive · AI labelView post →Third film on Prime, a movie I've been waiting and waiting to come to something I have streaming, A Cure For Wellness. A Verbinski. Heard good things. Love Mia. #filmsky #letterboxd #LastFourWatched boxd.it/bkQW
neutral · AI labelView post →Gorgeous Gore strikes again! Somehow feels more like a blank check movie than even A Cure for Wellness, this Eye-Candy-Black-Mirror-Matrix-sequel gave me whiplash between brilliance and shlock, with a fun score to guide the trip! Drop the teachers and "punch"-up the jokes and I'd give it 10/10 #Dat👊
neutral · AI labelView post →Some of these lists on letterboxed are liars This isn't 300 Horror Movies Everyone HAS to See if A Cure For Wellness is on it, it's just every horror movie you've heard of tossed out there to make it seem like you like movies But nobody likes that movie. It's objectively not great.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just downloaded the new pack, so far so good! Now to build something insane ( probably the castle from 'A Cure for Wellness') and see if that works too! I want to build a Spa / B&B thing, since I'm watching the movie now 😄 For reference..this insane thing #thesims4
neutral · AI labelView post →A movie that everyone forgot except me because it has my kinks in it: A Cure for Wellness. The protagonist is a toolbag but it's ok because he's orally tortured and eel-infested. Not pictured: sickly waif eel girl with an incest subplot, for other types of perverts
positive · AI labelView post →I honestly love the movie more than most people but....A Cure For Wellness
positive · AI labelView post →47 Meters Down, A Cure for Wellness, A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 Remake), All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Blair Witch, Contracted, Creep, Darkness Falls, Devil, Doom, Don't Knock Twice, Eli, Gothika, Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters, ... There are many more. I have no idea what is wrong with my brain, but each of these movies generally entertained me much more than movies with a significantly higher rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But critics give movies like Blair Witch 38 % and Avatar 82 %.…
neutral · AI labelView post →#CurrentlyWatching A CURE FOR WELLNESS Such a gorgeous film that doesn't quite hit the mark. An Alpine spa retreat for the ultra wealthy in a storybook castle is hiding a whole lotta nasty slithery secrets.
neutral · AI labelView post →Superstar author @caitlinstarling.com returns on our new episode covering 2016's psychological #horror flick "A Cure for Wellness!" Show links: Podbean: bit.ly/3XIimc5 Apple: bit.ly/3M2vk1L Spotify: bit.ly/4ppLcKf iHeart: bit.ly/4o8FmvC Castbox: bit.ly/3XbtTAC #horrorsky #filmsky #film #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched A Cure for Wellness again tonight. Third time since release. Always quite liked it but thought it was overly long. Now I finally get it. I understand what it was saying. Pure genius. A severely underrated film. Watch it, enjoy the gorgeous visuals, but pay attention to what it is saying.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching - Goth Girl Saturday A Cure for Wellness | 2016 | Gore Verbinski I 👀 this at the theater on release and left feeling empty and cold - not a fan at all. But so many of my film mentors sing the films praises that I knew eventually it deserved a rewatch/reevaluation. @j60660.bsky.social
negative · AI labelView post →Quote with four horror films to get to know you. ☣️Annihilation 👻Paranorman 🐍A Cure For Wellness 🦇What We Do in the Shadows
neutral · AI labelView post →"The breathtaking location serves as a metaphor for the entire film, great to look at, but rather empty inside." - @maynardbangs.bsky.social, ‘A Cure for Wellness (2016)’ #RecommendationsofJustice #FilmSky #Halloween
neutral · AI labelView post →Dehaan was kinda hot shit back when he was cast even though it was instant miscast (he was in that weird Metallica movie among other things and he did well in A Cure for Wellness) - but by the time the movie came out he was as cold as two day shit. So that's on Besson. Miles Teller or Alden Ehrenreich would've been better choices because they have punchable faces and a shit eating grins which is integral part of early Valerian - that dude was obnoxious. funny thing is that Bruce Willis in…
neutral · AI labelView post →A Cure For Wellness was one of the movies that got me banned from choosing what we watched during family movie nights for a bit
positive · AI labelView post →It's the weekend again, scary swim team, & time for me to remind you of another pool movie you forgot about. #acureforwellness #horrorsky #filmsky #booksky #poolreviews #splasherflicks
neutral · AI labelView post →Sometimes I see a movie that I can’t really recommend but I’m really glad and I saw it anyway. Weird stuff that doesn’t quote work but they’re too compelling to dismiss. Films like Tusk, Spider-Man 3, and A Cure For Wellness. I kinda love ’em? Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is one of those movies.
positive · AI labelView post →Re-watched A CURE FOR WELLNESS. If anything, it’s not bleak enough. The best looking a movie this viscerally unpleasant has ever been. 100 stars. Gore Verbinski’s masterpiece.
positive · AI labelView post →Film #21 for 2026 is A Cure For Wellness (2016). It's one of the best looking films I've seen, and if it only been 90 minutes instead of 150, and centred Mia Goth as a co-protagonist, and picked a moral theme and stuck to it... it still would have been stuck with some unfortunate choices. Sigh.
neutral · AI labelView post →(34/54) 19. A Cure for Wellness (2016) Whatever your opinion of the film & where it goes narratively, where its shot, how it's shot, some of its imagery & moments of characters just exploring, both awestruck & captured what to date in film feels most like the "Poolrooms" to me.
neutral · AI labelView post →Quite an artsy double feature for my horror movie retrospective today! I watched A Cure for Wellness (2016) and Mother! (2017). A Cure for Wellness gave me big Shutter Island vibes with its gothic mystery plotline, and Mother! was an allegory wrapped up in a panic attack, yeah?
neutral · AI labelView post →88. A Cure For Wellness (2017, first time) Sort of interesting... has an old school horror movie set up, similar to like, a more serious Dr Phibes or something. its pretty mid but i had a good enough time with it. kind of went mouth mode.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you ever seen A Cure for Wellness? I thought Cuckoo nailed the vibes that movie tried to create but fell short
neutral · AI labelView post →A Cure for Wellness🎬🍿 Definitely the best eel-centric horror movie I've seen this year. Falls somewhere between Lovecraft and Corman's Poe movies in style, except it's beautifully shot and very well made. Also eels. Many, many, many eels. Mostly in places you generally wouldn't want eels to be👍👍👍👍
positive · AI labelView post →49. I love when a movie infects me like a sinister disease and slowly consumes my brain. A CURE FOR WELLNESS is that movie. I didn't quite give it a thumbs up on first viewing, but it eeled its way in and now I call it Verbinski's masterpiece. Our @genrevision.com revisit solidified that.
positive · AI labelView post →What are some of your favorite trailers that make the movie look far better than it actual is? Here’s a list of mine (links in replies): Watchmen Max Payne Clash of the Titans Suicide Squad Terminator Salvation A Cure For Wellness Godzilla King of the Monsters 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →16. A CURE FOR WELLNESS: Speaking of wellness, we well better give Gore Verbinski his damn flowers for this movie. Gorgeous insanity, one of the rare 2+ hour horror films where each inventive minute is worth your time and befuddlement.
positive · AI labelView post →Horror movie night🎬📺💀👅🧟♀️: The Dunwich Horror (1970) Audition (1999) Currently watching: A Cure For Wellness (2016
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