Antiviral (2012)
Directed by Brandon Cronenberg
Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.
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Now, it seems, that 'skill’ may be partially genetic with Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg’s none-to-subtle nod to the body-horror masterworks of his father, David (Rabid, Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly).
Brandon Cronenberg is the 33-year old scion of director David Cronenberg ( The Fly , Scanners , and the recent Cosmopolis ), and the visual and thematic sensibilities of father and son are shockingly similar.
Canada is the world capital for cold, cerebral sci-fi – witness the work of David Cronenberg (Rabid, Scanners, eXistenZ) and Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Cypher, Splice).
Clearly weaned on dad’s early body-horror films such as Shivers and Scanners, the 32-year-old Canadian writer-director gives a sardonic, Cronenbergian twist to a very au courant subject: the sickness of celebrity worship.
Thematically, however, “Antiviral” runs through the spectrum of Cronenberg’s greatest hits, from “Videodrome” to “The Fly,” “Scanners” and “The Brood.”
Possessor is writer and director Brandon Cronenberg’s follow-up to the equally mesmerizing and disturbing sci-fi horror film Antiviral.
Eight years after his 2012 debut Antiviral , Brandon Cronenberg returns with Possessor Uncut, an intriguing, artistically inclined melding of mind and matter which conjures the significant legacy of his father, David Cronenberg.
For his follow-up to 2012's Antiviral , the son of body horror legend David Cronenberg imagines an alternate reality where technology has advanced to the point that it allows skilled professionals to hack into the bodies and minds of targeted individuals, turning them into unwilling and unknowing executioners.
By the time the eye-rollingly abstract final half hour rolls around, however, Possessor has definitively cemented its place as a rather palpable misfire that does, at least, fare much, much better than Cronenberg’s interminable, unwatchable 2012 debut, Antiviral.
The son of the body-horror maestro behind such cine-nightmares as “Scanners” and “Dead Ringers,” director Brandon Cronenberg took a tentative step in the same squirm-inducing direction with his 2012 debut, “Antiviral.”
After skewering celebrity culture in his needle-driven bio-horror debut “Antiviral,” writer/director Brandon Cronenberg continues to delve into body tourism, this time through the eyes of professional assassin Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough), a woman who has perhaps put her own personality on ice one time too many.