Riding on some good buzz out of this year’s Butt-Numb-A-Thon, Gore Verbinski‘s upcoming “A Cure For Wellness” seems to casting a vibe that’s somewhere between “The Shining” and “Stranger Things,” but without the nostalgia of the latter or the rigid aesthetics of the former. The result is something that looks like it’ll either be brilliantly batshit or… just kinda batshit.
Dane DeHaan leads the movie as a young executive, who looks to be working for the most boring, soul deadening company ever, who is tasked with retrieving the CEO who has vanished. Presumably there’s a reason why the police aren’t called in (probably to protect the value of the company or something is my guess). And what DeHaan discovers is pretty damn freaky, to put it lightly. Here’s the official synopsis:
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from an idyllic but mysterious “wellness center” at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa’s miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
“A Cure For Wellness” opens on February 17, 2017.
