A Cure for Wellness (18) Directed by Gore Verbinski 4/5 

Once upon a time, notably in the heyday of Hammer Films, the cinematic home of Gothic horror was darkest Transylvania.

Here, director and cowriter (with Justin Haythe, from the latter’s delightfully deranged original story) Gore (how appropriate for a horror movie) Verbinski returns to the Alps of old by sending junior executive Lockhart (Dane DeHaan) into darkest Switzerland to rescue the failing company by bringing back the company’s CE O from the gothic alpine spa commanded by Jason Isaac’s smoothly sinister doctor Volmer (“Do you know what the cure for the human condition is? Disease. Because that’s the only way one could hope for a cure”) who bids fair to make the late horror film great Christopher Lee seem positively benign as you get to know him.