The Dystopian Future Of Fitspo Is Here In The Goop Inspired Trailer For ‘A Cure For Wellness’

It might end up being a good reminder that "wellness" companies exist to create problems you'll pay them to fix.

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A Cure for Wellness
A Cure for Wellness

Mediocre horror can make a haunted house or a killer on the loose scary. Good horror makes the commonplace scary.

The setting of 2017’s A Cure for Wellness is simple: a man sets off to bring his boss home from a wellness spa. But in this dystopian future, wellness is on steroids and the spa isn’t what it seems.

A Cure for Wellness
A Cure for Wellness

Gore Verbinski (The Ring) directs this psychological horror thriller where spa goers undergo mysterious eel treatments in a very hotel California meets American Horror Story: Asylum Alps retreat.

A Cure for Wellness
A Cure for Wellness

It might end up being a good reminder that “wellness” companies exist to create problems you’ll pay them to fix. Here’s the trailer: