A Cure for Wellness

Gross, disturbing, upsetting, scary imagery, often with gore/blood. A brutal car crash. Maimed, struggling deer (metal impaled in its body). Torture machines. Teeth-pulling, with blood. Punching, fighting, shovel impaled in head, burning with steam, falling down stairs. A bar fight. Bloody nose. Bloody hands. Sick cow sliced open. Dead goldfish. A young woman is held captive by an older man and forced to marry against her will, with the threat of forced consummation.

A man rips a woman's clothes off; her breasts are visible. He reaches and touches between her legs. A woman removes her top and a man masturbates (off screen/implied). Additional scenes of topless women, plus naked male and female bottoms. Brief, strong sexual language. Obscene sexual gesture. Threat of incest.

Language includes "f--k," "s--t," "p---y," "d--k," "ass," "t-ts," "hell," "Jesus Christ."

Character frantically tries to quit smoking by chewing Nicorette gum‎. Drinking beers in a bar. Gulping a glass of whisky. Characters smoke cigarettes.

Parents need to know that A Cure for Wellness is a bizarre thriller with some horror and supernatural overtones from director Gore Verbinski (the Pirates of the Caribbean movies). It's frequently violent (often with blood/gore) and very disturbing/unsettling. Characters fight and are impaled with blunt objects and burned with steam. There's a brutal car crash, a suffering deer (it's impaled by a hunk of metal), a sick cow that's sliced open, and other gross, scary images. Plus, a young woman is held captive and forced to marry, with the threat of forced consummation. A man tears a woman's clothes off and touches her between the legs, and another man masturbates (mostly implied) when another woman removes her top. Naked breasts and bottoms are shown. Language includes "f--k," "s--t," and "p---y." Smoking and drinking are shown, mainly in a social context.

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