10 Terrible Horror Movies With ONE Incredible Scene
9. Lockhart And The Eels - A Cure For Wellness
After making his name directing the American version of The Ring, Gore Verbinski took an extended break from horror to make the likes of Rango, The Lone Ranger, and the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
In 2016, he returned to the genre with A Cure for Wellness, starring Dane DeHaan as a finance exec who gets trapped at a mysterious and dangerous health resort.
Unfortunately, while A Cure for Wellness has its moments, its story is plain, its characters uninspired, and, at 147 minutes, it's way, way too long. There is one scene that illustrates more than any other the potential it had to be great.
DeHaan's character Lockhart discovers that the facility's owner Heinrich Volmer (Jason Isaacs) has found a way to extract a life-extending elixir from eels. There's just one problem - the extraction process requires the eels to be filtered through a human body.
Cue Volmer strapping Lockhart to a gurney, forcing a clear plastic tube down his throat, and revelling as the slimy creatures wiggle their way inside his unwilling subject. A hard watch, but a grimly satisfying one that is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the picture.