A Cure for Wellness clip: Could this be 2017's first great horror film?

Gore Verbinski returns to the horror genre with a wholly original film starring Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, and Mia Goth

Gore Verbinski's had quite the unusual career in Hollywood: a mixed bag of styles, genres, and quality - though always with a keen eye for visual flair and storytelling on a grand scale.

A frequent collaborator with Johnny Depp, Verbinski's most notable for directing the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, alongside Disney's The Lone Ranger and animation Rango.

However, the director was also responsible for 2002's The Ring, which launched a franchise and a short-lived hysteria for American remakes of Japanese horror flicks.

It's to this territory he now returns with A Cure for Wellness; a wholly original horror based on a story by both Verbinski and Justin Haythe, with the latter penning the script.

The film sees Dane DeHaan play a ruthless young executive sent to retrieve his company's CEO from a strange, secluded "wellness centre" located in the midst of the Swiss Alps. Though, as this new clip shows, things soon take a turn for the utterly bizarre. Jason Isaacs and Mia Goth also star.

The Independent had the opportunity to see the first half hour of the film, which showed some incredible restraint in deliver slow-burner chills, with an eerie atmosphere reminiscent of the slew of highly inventive, fun genre films which characterised the Twin Peaks-dominated early 90s.

A Cure for Wellness hits UK cinemas 24 February.