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A Cure for Well­ness gets a creepy, styl­ish first trailer

21 Oct 2016

Words by Adam Woodward

Take a first look at Gore Verbinski’s upcom­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal thriller.

Gore Verbin­s­ki is one of cinema’s great big-scale visu­al sto­ry­tellers, but his lat­est, A Cure for Well­ness, is a more low-key prospect than we’re used to see­ing from him. Based on an orig­i­nal script by Verbin­s­ki and Justin Haythe, this atmos­pher­ic-look­ing sci-fi tells of a go-get­ting young exec­u­tive (Dane DeHaan) who uncov­ers a sin­is­ter secret at a Swiss ​“well­ness” clin­ic where his boss has mys­te­ri­ous­ly disappeared.

The film looks clos­er in tone and style to the director’s ear­li­er The Ring than the Pirates fran­chise with which he made his name, and there appears to be an Ene­my-style psy­cho­log­i­cal under­tow at play. Exact­ly what the ​‘cure’ referred to in the title is is anyone’s guess – although there may be a clue in the creepy offi­cial poster which has also just been released. Watch the first trail­er up top and let us know what you make it of all at @LWLies

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A Cure for Well­ness is set for release March 2017.

Blue glass bottle with a figure inside, poster for "A Cure for Wellness"
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