PLOT
At a large financial services firm in New York city, a man named Morris is working late when he suffers a massive heart attack and drops dead. With Morris now deceased, Lockhart, an ambitious young executive, takes his place and is sent to retrieve the company's CEO, Roland Pembroke, from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps.
This retrieval is prompted once Board members receive a troubling letter from a seemingly demented Pembroke, whom they need to sign off on the merger of their company with another. Their company is covering up some unsightly business deals, which several partners hope to pin on Pembroke upon his return. Upon arriving at the wellness center, Lockhart is met with some resistance by the staff, particularly Dr. Heinrich Volmer, in his attempts to speak with Pembroke. He eventually succeeeds in getting to him, but a car crash forces him to recover at the center with a broken leg.
In his ttime at the Spa, Lockhart meets a mysterious young girl named Hannah, who, like Volmer, drinks a strange fluid kept in a cobalt bottle. Around this time another patient, Victoria Watkins, tells Lockhart that the spa is built on the ruins of a castle, once owned by a baron, that was burnt down 200 years ago. The baron desired an heir of pure blood and married his sister. When the baron learned she was infertile, he began performing hellish experiments on the peasants. Eventually the peasants rose up and burnt the castle down. Watkins claims the baby was tossed into the aueduct, and despite its fragile state, ultimately survived.
Lockhart investigates his suspicions and discovers the transfusion wing of the spa is a front for macabre medical experiments where eels are filtered through human bodies to produce the cure Volmer and Hannah are ingesting. Lockhart is captured by Volmer, who is actually the centuries-old baron, surviving off the cure, and Lockhart is subjected to nightmarish treatments that warp his mind like Pembroke. Lockhart writes a letter to his employer saying that he intends to remain at the spa, but has a moment of clarity where he realizes his leg was never actually broken. He rips off the cast and goes in search of Hannah.
Around this time, Hannah has her first menstrual cycle and Volmer celebrates with an elaborate party. During the party, he leads Hannah to a secret room, built from the ruins of the castle, and prepares to rape her. Lockhart realizes Hannah is Volmer's daughter and he confronts Volmer in the secret room. During the ensuing fight, Volmer's face is revealed to be a mask that hides the hideously burnt baron. Lockhart sets Volmer on fire, causing the whole castle to burn. Volmer overpowers Lockhart, and is just about to feed him to carnivorous eels when Hannah kills Volmer by lodging a shovel in his head. He then falls into the pit and is devoured by the eels.
Lockhart and Hannah escape from the castle on a bicycle as the whole place burns to the ground. on the road, Lockhart crashes the bicycle into a car carrying his employers, who have arrived from New York to retrieve him and Pembroke. Lockhart is ordered into the car by the employers, who hope he will return to New York with them, so they can pin all corporate wrongdoings on him, but he instead chooses to run away with Hannah.
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