Episode 128 (A Cure for Wellness)

Published: May 10, 2018, 10 p.m.

This week we discuss\xa0A Cure for Wellness\xa0(2016), Gore Verbinski's ambitious and gorgeous film intermixing\xa0The Road to Wellville\xa0(1994) and\xa0Shutter Island (2010) with a dash of Frankenstein (1931). We explore how over-eating could defeat James Bond, along with the moral sensibilities of this film (and how you shouldn't watch this with your mother), the link between eel-swallowing and mind control, the occasional impracticality of "obsession laboratory" lair architecture, and the stylings of Cronenbergian shock value in the film.