Rating: 1/5
Directed by Gore Verbinski, the 2016 movie A Cure For Wellness is arguably one of the more fucked up things I’ve ever seen, and that’s coming from a horror/thriller fanatic.
The story follows Lockhart, a young businessman, who is sent to retrieve a CEO from a wellness retreat set inside a castle in the Swiss Alps. Lockhart’s task proves much harder than he originally thought when a car crash, a mysterious girl, a stubborn CEO, and strange happenings enter the mix.
The whole movie is riddled with psychological horror to twist with your perception, and most of the time, you don’t get to see these twists until Lockhart does, so you’re right there with him the whole time. After a whole lot of confusion, it turns out that the man who runs the wellness retreat is a historical baron extracting liquid from his patients in order to keep his daughter alive until she is ‘mature’.
The whole process is one of the most uncomfortable things I’ve ever watched, since it involves eels being forced into the human body in ways eels shouldn’t be forced into the human body. Not that eels should be inside a human at all. And to top the whole thing off, the baron reveals a truly disgusting desire to marry and then defile his daughter as soon as she hits maturity in order to procreate with her. I’m not a huge expert, but I’m pretty sure that’s incest.
The baron truly deserved what he got in the end, which was a good beating from Lockhart, and burning alive while his castle gets destroyed around him. Not many horror movies are able to capture such a raw element of discomfort and intrusiveness, but this one sure did. Perfect for anyone wanting to be put off their next meal.
