The MFF Podcast #128: A Cure for Wellness, Gore Verbinkski’s gorgeous genre-splicing psychological horror.

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SUMMARY: This week we discuss A Cure for Wellness (2016), Gore Verbinski’s ambitious and gorgeous film intermixing The Road to Wellville (1994) and Shutter 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.

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Episode 123: The Ritual, Swedish hiking and the Norse Jötunn
Episode 117: Event Horizon, Hellraiser in space, and wrestling Graboids
Episode 116: Happy Death Day
Episode 115: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Episode 114: Office Horror, Mayhem & The Belko Experiment
Episode 113: Elise, her Demons and the Insidious Franchise
Episode 108: The Best Horror Films of 2017
Episode 78: Carpenter vs Zombie Halloween Rematch (1981 vs 2009)
Episode 76: The Blair Witch Pod (1999-2016)

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LISTEN TO THE POD ON BLOG TALK RADIO.
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