A Cure for Wellness

A Cure for Wellness, is a film that mesmerizes, haunts, and lingers long after the screen fades to black. Watching it alone in an empty theater at a time when cinemas were bustling, made it feel like a deeply personal experience, as if it was meant just for me. Over the years, I’ve found myself returning to it whenever I can, drawn in by its hypnotic quality. Gore Verbinski’s psychological horror is visually stunning, unsettling, and dripping with mystery. Every frame is meticulously crafted, weaving a disturbing tale that grips the mind as much as the senses. It’s not a film for everyone, but for those willing to embrace its eerie beauty, it’s a hypnotic descent into madness, one that keeps calling me back.

The reviews have kept me away from this movie for too long. Entertaining from start to finish.

The Interminable ‘A Cure For Wellness’ is a Feast for the Eyes

This movie is very much an experimental piece, and it worked. It has a great, interesting story with lots of horror and a great aesthetic. It's also very weird, which works for it, and it feels like a true passion project for Gore Verbinski. I don't see anything better to do than to get right into it. The story is great, focusing on a strange retreat in Germany that uses water as the primary treatment method. It creates intrigue, but as the story continues, it gets more and more intriguing and the mystery amps up and up. Then, by the end, the facility burns down, the main villain, who feels like a gothic horror monster and basically is that, is dead and the main character is happy in Germany, riding off with a manic expression on his face. It's crazy and it's great. And, not to mention, the movie has a great aesthetic. It feels industrial yet beautiful, akin to something like Bendy and the Ink Machine (which is getting a movie soon, can't wait) or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It's great, and the white-ish blues and greens make it feel aesthetically pleasing, strangely. It's a great aesthetic that makes the movie stand out and it just looks... good. I don't know how else to describe it, really, but that's the film: a fun and interesting story. Overall, an interesting and experimental horror film that I found fun and visually appealing.

I don't understand critics, this movie it's gorgeous especially in the gothic atmosphere and Mia Goth is magnetic as always. Maybe the ending it's a little weak.

Something out of the box, the duration could be shorter, the story ends up stretched out without a plot to sustain it.

Not a reboot, spinoff, or other boring unoriginal contrivance. A fun eerie story that was fun from beginning to end.

Amazing movie, extremely artistic. Different from every other cookie cutter Hollywood movie.

The story gives a lot of unnecessary and unanswered questions which makes you think, why is this plot even in the film? Some of the questions I did not find the answer to: - The eels started circling around Hannah, instead of eating her. Why? - About the "vitamins", how are they made? The film explains how the water is purified, however during the film we see a kind of "cure" or what they call "vitamins"; and supposedly it kills leptocephalis. How is it made? - In the scene when everyone is hypnotised, why? How exactly are they hypnotised? We also see Pembroke in the police station, saying what he doesn't mean to say; cause he clearly agreed to go to New York City. - The biggest unnecessary question, are why Baron Von Reichmerl and Hannah Von Reichmerl alive? What's their secret for living 200 years? It would be OK to have some supernatural elements is the film, but the least we can expect is an explanation for these supernatural elements. However I believe we somehow lose the blurred line between real and unreal. And also the story is much more symbolic than what we think it is. What made me think like this is Lockhart's teeth, which gets miraculously back! In any case, the cinematography was fascinating, and it kinda reminded me of Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010). Some shots are really artistic! Also I admire how Mia Goth acted in this movie. It seems that she has a good talent in acting.

Great cinematography, great acting, great visuals, great story, but wasn’t scary at all sometimes even a bit boring !