Regardless of how one might feel about his films, there’s no denying Gore Verbinski‘s visual eye. After his Johnny Depp collaborations with the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, Rango, and The Lone Ranger, the director is finally returning to the horror genre early next year with A Cure for Wellness. Led by Dane DeHaan, Mia Goth and Jason Isaacs, a new international trailer has now arrived from South Korea which runs just a minute, but has more distinct imagery than virtually the entire 2016 blockbuster slate combined.
Following a CEO who heads to a treatment center in the Swiss Alps, audiences at the 18th annual Butt-Numb-a-Thon in Austin this past weekend were treated to the premiere of the film. While full reviews are embargoed until closer to its February release, the response was strong (i.e. it’s creepy as hell with comparisons to Shutter Island and the films of David Fincher and Park Chan-wook). With the film arriving just a week after John Wick 2, 2017 is spoiling us already.
Check out the new trailer below along with a round-up of reactions.
Update: See a new full-length trailer below.
Gore Verbinski’s THE CURE FOR WELLNESS is delightfully fucked up. I dug the hell out of it.
— C. Robert Cargill (@Massawyrm) December 11, 2016
A Cure for Wellness is scary/gorgeous/unsettling. Holy moses. #bnat18
— Libby Banks (@libberish) December 11, 2016
The Cure to Wellness just creeped me the fuck out and I loved every moment of it. #BNAT18
— Taylor (@Supernovagrl42) December 11, 2016
A Cure for Wellness: a mostly splendidly silly fairy tale. Lewton plot, Fincher aesthetic, Park Chan-Wook tone. 2:26 and feels it… #BNAT18
— Will Goss (@williambgoss) December 11, 2016
A cure for wellness is fucking creepy #BNAT18 #goreverbinski
— antonio quintero (@tenchi24) December 11, 2016
6) Verbinski’s CURE FOR WELLNESS was a trippy mix of SHUTTER ISLAND + DR PHIBES. It’s great, but now I can never do a float tank. #BNAT18
— pwnny (@pwnny) December 11, 2016
Movie 5 of #BNAT18 was Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness and hoo boy was it a beautiful bag of fucked up weirdness. pic.twitter.com/nOQsMcI5KM
— Jolly Gonzalez (@Javi201330) December 11, 2016
#bnat18 Gore Verbenski’s The Cure For Wellness is amazing.
— smallerdemon (@smallerdemon) December 11, 2016
Can’t review THE CURE FOR WELLNESS yet. But it’s a particular genre that gets weird and gross and still not sure what I think yet. #BNAT18
— Alan Cerny (@NordlingCS) December 11, 2016
Gore Verbinski & @danedehaan brought A Cure for Wellness to #BNAT18 . Creepy as fuck. One to watch in 2017
— ImperatorJediBananas (@JediBananas) December 11, 2016
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. From Gore Verbinski, the visionary director of THE RING, comes the new psychological thriller, A CURE FOR WELLNESS.
A Cure For Wellness opens on February 17, 2017.