<em>A Cure for Wellness</em> Is a Malevolent Thrill Ride, With Eels
Gore Verbinski’s new movie is among the most demented things produced by Hollywood in recent years.
opens with a foreboding shot of a nightmarish edifice looming over the viewer at a canted angle. It’s not the creepy Swiss sanatorium where most of Gore Verbinski’s demented new film is set. No, it’s a Manhattan skyscraper, where a stressed-out office worker (Craig Wroe) takes a drink from the water cooler, then violently keels over and dies from a heart attack as the score thuds and groans furiously. Verbinski (, ) has never been a subtle filmmaker, but even by his standards is bold—an epically long, giddily violent
