A Cure for Wellness is a 2016 psychological horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and written by Justin Haythe.

[3] Starring Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, and Mia Goth, the plot follows a young executive who is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from a mysterious rehabilitation center in the Swiss Alps.

Lockhart, an executive at a financial services firm in New York City, is sent by the board of directors to retrieve CEO Roland Pembroke, who had abruptly decided to stay at a "wellness center" in the Swiss Alps.

Lockhart leaves, but is involved in a car crash and awakens at the center – supposedly three days later – with his leg in a plaster cast.

It was built on the ruins of a castle owned 200 years ago by a baron, who desired an heir of pure blood and married his sister.

After giving Hannah a ballerina figurine, Lockhart bikes into town with her help, leaving her in a bar and seeking out a translator for Pembroke's German medical dossier.

Lovecraft (namely The Dunwich Horror), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's Cronos (1993), The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006).

The film's leads, Dane DeHaan and Mia Goth, were announced in April 2015,[6] Jason Isaacs was added to the cast that June.

[15] In the car crash scene, DeHaan was placed into a harness inside a device described by Bryan Alexander of USA Today as being similar to a rotisserie before being tossed around.

The soundtrack album consists of the film's score plus a stripped-down version of a Ramones song "I Wanna be Sedated" which is performed by Mirel Wagner.

[2] In the United States, 20th Century Fox premiered a 40-second exclusive commercial during the 51st Super Bowl on February 5, 2017, which resembled a medication advertisement.

"[21] Two days before the film's U.S. premiere, The New York Times reported that 20th Century Fox had created a group of fake news sites as part of a viral marketing campaign for A Cure for Wellness.

[22][23] The film trailer also gained media attention for showing a scene where Mia Goth was in a bathtub full of eels.

The site's critical consensus reads, "A Cure for Wellness boasts a surfeit of visual style, but it's wasted on a derivative and predictable story whose twists, turns, and frights have all been more effectively dealt before.

"[39] Andrew Lapin of National Public Radio wrote that DeHaan's "disarmingly boyish face instantly gives us the impression of someone out of his element", but felt the film was derivative and overly long.

Both industries exploit those they profit from, and A Cure for Wellness is at its best when showing how contemporary philosophies of "health and wealth" are, at base, all the same old sin.

"[42] Tim Holland of TV Guide awarded the film three out of five stars, writing: A Cure for Wellness, Gore Verbinski's eerie and atmospheric new horror film, looks like something supreme schlockmeister Roger Corman might have produced back in the day–if he'd been handed a boatload of cash and was given a green light to spend it on just one picture, that is.

And that's meant as a compliment: This movie is a demented riff on notable psychological thrillers like The Shining, Shutter Island, and The Phantom of the Opera, and it tosses in the most disturbing dental-work scene since Laurence Olivier did squirm-inducing things to Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man.

[43]Writing for TheWrap, Alonso Duralde praised the film's production design but criticized its narrative, saying: "While the movie is about people who are happy to remain removed from the world, not realizing that they are involved in something truly dreadful, many viewers will be all too willing to head for the exits.

[44] The Blu-ray release features a deleted sequence, featurettes, and theatrical trailers as bonus materials, as well as digital and DVD copies.