By Travis Johnson
We don’t get much of what you might call “prestige horror” these days. Sure, we get the old franchises trotted out and revamped on the reg (heya, Platinum Dunes) and a few series that trot along content to harvest their fanbase’s money every year or two (that’d be Resident Evil and Underworld), it’s not too common for a studio to put some big money and big talent into a horror movie. And yes, we’ve got The Mummy next year, but The Exorcist and Poltergeist were both a long, long time ago.
But here comes ol’ Gore Verbinski, who made his bones with The Ring before going stellar with the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, plunging poor Dane DeHaan into horror, madness and weird alpine health regimes in A Cure for Wellness. This looks great; a big, handsome, cerebral-seeming horror movie that doesn’t seem to skimp on either production value or shocks. Imagine if this is a hit – we could be looking at more decently supported genre fare for years to come. Book your tickets for Februrary 16, 2017.
