With the methodical pacing that the film engages in through its first two acts, this sequence, dubbed “Embryonic,” would have definitely derailed the tracks so carefully laid in the film’s first two acts.
But instead of deleting the material, and losing it to obscurity, Gore Verbinski and his editors did something unique as a tribute to the fans, and these moments now removed from the film.
Ultimately, the sequence that’s included on the Blu-ray release of A Cure For Wellness had the potential to break the audience out of the atmosphere that the film had cultivated in all of the events that came before it.