{"id":17390,"date":"2025-03-24T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17390"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:39:42","slug":"a-cure-for-wellness-2016-gore-verbinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17390","title":{"rendered":"A Cure for Wellness (2016, Gore Verbinski)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valerian &#8220;Val&#8221; DeHaan travels to a secluded German manor to work out a contract for his employer &#8211; is this based on <em>Dracula<\/em>?  Upon arrival he signs some papers without reading them, then starts mad hallucinating, taking too long to realize what kind of movie he&#8217;s in.  Gore&#8217;s ability to illustrate a creepy horror thing with big striking images makes me wonder if I should rewatch his <em>Ring<\/em> remake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/wellness1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/wellness2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>I guess Val dreams his mom dies after his limo crashes into a Very Digital Deer.  Mia Goth plays the weird girl wandering the grounds, but then, everything is pretty weird.  Val finds micro-bugs in the water, later panics when his scuba therapy becomes eel-infested.  He sees eels everywhere, then tries to rally the patients to revolution but instead they zombie-attack him and the doctors pump Val full of eels &#8211; in the end, this is like <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14653\">The Matrix<\/a><\/em>, but with eels instead of technology.  I guess the incestuous mad doctor\/baron Jason Isaacs (military guy in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12648\">The Death of Stalin<\/a><\/em>) is Mia&#8217;s dad, and they are 200 years old, kept alive through eels, until Val snaps out of his zomb-eel stupor and foils their plan.  Partly based on Thomas Mann&#8217;s The Magic Mountain, which the guys who wrote <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4775\">Shutter Island<\/a><\/em> may have also read.  Someone should program a <em>Cure for Wellness<\/em> \/ <em>Road to Wellville<\/em> double feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerian &#8220;Val&#8221; DeHaan travels to a secluded German manor to work out a contract for his employer &#8211; is this based on Dracula? Upon arrival he signs some papers without reading them, then starts mad hallucinating, taking too long to realize what kind of movie he&#8217;s in. Gore&#8217;s ability to illustrate a creepy horror thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,3388,122,3387,1821,783,384,1422,2811],"class_list":["post-17390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-eels","tag-germany","tag-gore-verbinski","tag-hallucination","tag-immortality","tag-incest","tag-mad-scientist","tag-mia-goth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17435,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17390\/revisions\/17435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}