History Film / ACureForWellness

* BarefootLoon: Hannah is perpetually barefoot.

* DirtyCop: Lockhart escapes to the village and tries to [[YouHaveToBelieveMe convince the local police officer of what he's seen.]] Then he sees the blue bottle of 'vitamin' drops on the cop's shelf and realises he's with Volmer, who then turns up claiming that Lockhart is an escaped patient.
* DissonantSerenity: [[spoiler:The patients all dance as the asylum burns to the ground. They all seem to unaware of what’s happening due to them being brainwashed by the institution.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: Even though Lockhart was [[{{Jerkass}} a self-righteous prick]], he was shocked and horrified when he saw orderlies ruthlessly punch the old man when he woke up screaming, he saw the caretaker dumping the body to the eels where it can be eaten, and [[{{JerkwithaHeartofGold}} he even rescues Hannah from the clutches of the truly unthinkable evils he uncovers.]]

* FacialHorror: What [[spoiler:Volmer]] really looks like. [[spoiler:His face looks like a significantly fleshier version of what [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor's face]] looks like and keeps it hidden with mask-like duplicates he has preserved in his underground laboratory]].

** During Hannah and Lockhart trip to a coffee house in the nearby town, Hannah is joined by a group of young women who ask her if she is carrying a tampon because one of the girls would need one urgently, right now; Hannah seems completing baffled by the conversation, [[spoiler:which foreshadows she didn't have her ''first'' period until a later event in the film.]]

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Volmer is defeated by Hannah and Lockhart and the center burns to the ground as patients [[WhileRomeBurns continue doing their regular activities]] outside of the building/continue dancing oblivious to the doctors trying to put out the fire]]. Not long afterwards, [[spoiler:The board of directors show up asking Lockhart what happened to Pembroke and why the facility is on fire. Instead of getting in the car with them, he rides away with Hannah while [[SlasherSmile grinning insanely]] as the board tries to call him back]].
* GhibliHills: Most of the film is set amidst a picturesque mountain range.

** The first happens when he goes to the police to tell them about the facility's experiments. At first, things seem like the cop believes him but then [[spoiler:he sees a blue vial on a shelf, there by implying that the local police is fully consenting with Volmer and his schemes]].
** The second happens not long afterwards when trying to convince his fellow patients that they're not being cured as they've been led to believe. Some of them begin to rise up, [[spoiler:only to begin mindlessly chant "I'm not well" and attack Lockhart]].

* TheOphelia: Hannah; beautiful, naive and childlike, complete with a flowing dress and bare feet. She's not mad however [[spoiler:though she does turn out to be a MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter.]]
* OrderliesAreCreeps: All the orderlies have a creepy vibe, but our first evidence that they're abusive is shown when one of them punches an old man on a stretcher when he wakes up screaming.

* PeopleJars: The patients are subjected to regular immersion in tanks.

* ProperlyParanoid: The residents of the nearby village are distrustful of the facility.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Volmer is the baron that lived in the castle that is now the spa. He impregnated his sister, who is the mother of Hannah.]]

* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Lockhart bleeds on his white patient's shirt when he tooth comes out, and Hanna bleeds on her dress when she menstruates.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: While dehydratation might contribute to gum disease which may degenerate into parodontitis, which may ultimately lead to loss of teeth, this last ailment is far from being the most prominent symptom of the condition.

* DistractedByTheSexy: An orderly is [[SurveillanceStationSlacker supposed to be monitoring Lockhart]] while he's in a sensory deprivation tank. A female nurse enters and exposes herself to him, so he's too busy engaging in ADateWithRosiePalms to notice that Lockhart is on the point of drowning.

* FacialHorror: What [[spoiler:Volmer]] really looks like. [[spoiler:His face looks like a significantly fleshier version of [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeltor's face]] looks like and keeps it hidden with mask-like duplicates he has preserved in his underground laboratory]].

* AmbiguousDisorder: Hannah has some kind of developmental disorder, [[spoiler:probably from the fact she's a byproduct of incest]].

* {{Gorn}}: Averted, actually. While there is definitely gruesome violence, a lot of the film's {{Squick}} factor comes from stuff that ''doesn't'' feature blood.

* FacialHorror: What [[spoiler:Volmer]] really looks like. [[spoiler:His face looks like a significantly fleshier version of [[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse Skeltor's face]] looks like and keeps it hidden with mask-like duplicates he has preserved in his underground laboratory]].

* AristocratsAreEvil: The baron who owned the lands the wellness center was built on performed horrifying experiments on his peasants to cure [[IncestIsRelative his sister-wife's]] infertility. [[spoiler:Turns out the baron is still alive and still performing the experiments]].

''A Cure for Wellness'' is a 2017 horror film from Creator/GoreVerbinski. It stars Creator/DaneDeHaan, Creator/JasonIsaacs, and Mia Goth. It was released on February 17, 2017.

* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Lockhart bleeds on his white patient's shirt when he tooth comes out, and Hanna bleeds on her dress when she menstrates.

** During Hannah and Lockhart trip to a coffee house in the nearby town, Hannah is joined by a group of young women who ask her if she is carrying a tampon because one of the girl would need one urgently, right now; Hannah seems completing baffled by the conversation, [[spoiler:which foreshadows she didn't have her ''first'' period until a later event in the film.]]

* {{Uberwald}}: A horror story set in and around a sanatorium built in Switzerland led by a mad scientist.

* PureIsNotGood: Volmer has an obsession with purity.

* HumanResources: [[spoiler:The fate of the patients.]]
* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler:A life extending elixir is derived from poisoning people with water containing the unrefined chemical, force-feeding them water with chemical-infused eels (waste matter and all), and subjecting them to what is basically a cylindrical mini-oven, capturing their sweat and the elixir it contains, now refined for safe consumption. After the process has worn out and dehydrated the subjects, their corpses are dumped in the eels' breeding ground.]]
* InsistentTerminology: "I am '''not''' a patient."
* TheIgor: The Gardener. [[spoiler:Also known as the Eel Feeder.]]

* MadScientist: The original baron, and Volmer. [[spoiler:They are one and the same.]]
* MindControl: Implied. [[spoiler:Possibly the result of brain damage-induced suggestibility, a side effect of the unrefined chemical that Volmer is using the facility to process.]]

* TheIngenue: Hannah.

* KindlyVet: A reasonably pleasant veterinarian works out of a garage in the village.

* ShoutOut: An orderly is reading ''Literature/TheMagicMountain'', an inspiration for the movie.

* AnimalMotif: Eels.

* BigBad: Dr. Heinreich Volmer.

* DepravedDentist: One of the doctors qualifies.

* HealingSpring: The aquifer water is a horror movie take on the trope.

* LikeADaughterToMe: Volmer regarding Hanna; he even has her photo on his desk.

* ShoutOut: An orderly is reading ''The Magic Mountain'', an inspiration for the movie.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler;...however, with Volmer dead and the facility destroyed, they've likely lost all of the remaining blue vials and will eventually age and die.]]

* ThemeTuneCameo:
** In an early scene where Lockhart visits his mother in her retirement home, the movie's theme is diegetically played by a music box owned by his mother.
** Hannah is heard huming the theme when she meets Lockhart.

* TheScapegoat: It's implied this is the real reason the board want to bring Pembroke back, to take the fall for an FCC investigation. They threaten to throw Lockhart under the rails too if he doesn't cooperate, and Pembroke hints he may have done the same to Lockhart's father.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Even though Lockhart was [[Jerkass a self-righteous prick]], he was horrified when he saw orderlies ruthlessly punch the old man when he woke up screaming, he saw the caretaker dumping the body to the eels where it can be eaten, and [[JerkWithAHeartGold Eventually, he helps rescue Hannah from the clutches of the truly unthinkable evils he uncovers.]]