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Dir: Gore Verbinski (15, 156 mins)
Aiming to provoke a fear of all relaxing spa breaks, Gore Verbinski’s return to the horror genre after The Ring remakes promises much. Dane DeHaan stars as an ambitious young executive who’s sent to retrieve his boss from a spa in the Alps following a garbled note. However, when he gets there he’s confronted by Jason Isaacs creepy owner, lots of eels, and Mia Goth’s disturbed patient. No one ever leaves the spa you see, especially if they’ve been diagnosed with the illness. Is our hero losing his mind, or is everything as disturbing as it seems? Certainly, the cure this spa is offering is somewhat more rigorous than a detox diet. Verbinski’s eye is on the unsettling in this lavishly designed scare fest that looks like a cousin of Shutter Island. This should be the first good scare of 2017.
Opens Feb 24