10 Horror Movies That Subtly Spoil The Ending Early

Mark Kermode said Gore Verbinski is not a director, and he may well be right, but sometimes - thanks to his DP, script, producers, and actors – Verbinski’s films do possess something beyond themselves, serving up excitement, intrigue, and a bit of foreshadowing to boot.

A Cure for Wellness manages all of the above, taking Dane DeHaan’s Lockhart, a young financial executive, to the Swiss Alps, where he has been instructed to retrieve his company's CEO from a strange and mysterious wellness facility. Nefarious things happen at this spa under the guidance of sinister Dr. Heinreich Volmer (Jason Isaacs), and before he knows it, Lockhart is uncovering a plot involving the evil Baron von Reichmerl, while trying to save a local girl named Hannah (Mia Goth) from his clutches.

Thus, the wellness clinic is not a wellness clinic; it is a factory for immortality serum, overseen by Dr. Volmer who is actually the baron, and Hannah is his daughter, who he intends to procreate with. And the film is laden with signs about what's really going on throughout.

Many of the people Lockhart encounters seem out of time, or not in touch with the present appropriate to their age, including the police officer that rats him out who is a young man yet has shelves of WWI memorabilia. There’s also the telltale sign of Volmer keeping a photograph of Hannah on his desk and quite literally telling Lockhart at one point that Hannah is like a daughter to him.