A Cure for Wellness
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- cold
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Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / mystery, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →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 but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.
Our read · A Cure for Wellness (2017) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · mystery · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of A Cure for Wellness
What watching it is actually like.
“You want gorgeous, grotesque Gothic spa horror that rewards two hours of patience.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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