A Cure For Wellness is a psychological thriller about a remote spa in the Swiss Alps. Lockhart (Dane DeHaan) is an ambitious young executive who is tasked with retrieving the CEO of their company from this spa. When he arrives, it looks like a mix between a luxury spa and an insane asylum. There are people doing yoga, exercising, swimming. They are normal activities done in a creepy looking facility. Lockhart is approached by a young woman who asks if he's taken the Cure. He laughs and says he's on his way out. She comments that no one ever leaves.
As he leaves, he hits a deer and his car crashes in the woods. He awakes back at the facility and is being treated for a broken leg. They decide Lockhart would be a good candidate for the Cure, and he decides to turn his retrieval mission into an investigation of the strange spa that is obviously anything but normal.
Other than that, you really don't get too much from the previews, no matter how many you watch. But, if you're into psychological thrillers, the images that are beautifully terrifying, classically creepy, and oddly curious make you want to see A Cure For Wellness. We see orderlies in tight white t-shirts, white pants and white shoes conducting exercise classes and wheeling patients down long tiled corridors with flickering fluorescent lights overhead. We see a steam room that looks like a dirty, dank bathhouse. At one point, Lockhart is submersed in a water tank with a breathing tube and is suddenly surrounded by eels. The Cure is a mysterious liquid administered a drop at a time from a blue bottle onto the patient's tongue. I've wanted to watch this movie and it was just recommended to me. It looks like a strange, unsettling, bizarre, crazy, awful thriller. I'm giving it a 3.5 Star Prediction. While I don't think it would be a waste of money in the theatre, it would probably be money better spent as a rental, but most likely not one I'd own. Am I right? We shall see.
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