A high-altitude horror – think a Bram Stoker reworking of *The Shining* or Shutter Highland – of real craft. Ultimately, though, the plot turns out to be thinner than the air.
Though it embraces the ridiculous in its final throes, there's much to admire about this ambitious examination of society.
Exquisite gothic trappings, timeless fairy tale grue, and several sips of mortality.
Allow yourself to be submerged, and you’ll soon find a genre-bending ride with spooks galore. Just don’t try to rationalise what you've witnessed afterward.
A Cure For Wellness is rich and strange but ultimately very frustrating. For all of its visual ingenuity and its wealth of ideas, its plotting is turgid in the extreme.
There are shades of Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King in this operatically claustrophobic horror film about a sinister alpine spa.
There are bags of atmosphere and style in A Cure For Wellness but not much of a story.
While weirdly impressive, Gore Verbinski’s sanatorium shocker runs more on atmosphere than logic.
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