Antiviral
Antiviral
NR | 12 April 2013 (USA)
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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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One of the worst movies I've ever seen in my entire life. Bored as hell No sense at all. The story is boring, the movie is slow and it is badly acted. Do not waste two hours of your life watching this crap.It is incredible that today someone continue to spend money on making trunks like this. Totally meaningless.

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begob

Corporate salesman makes himself sick with the product he's selling, and tries to take control.Cronenberg. Lynch. Gilliam. They're all in there, but it's treacle slow and I didn't get a note of humour. The lead actor is frustratingly dull, and should be discouraged from these roles in future - he's obviously talented and could be much more interesting.The pace is poor, I kept looking at the time. Music didn't bring me in. Editing good, but too many longeurs. Damn you, Quebec.I'm on board with the satire, but it did not give me a warm feeling. Sadly, the pessimism is probably spot on. The final note was restrained Cronenberg.Overall, interesting but dull-making.

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Aaron White

I think it's good. Syd March is a great interesting character played by Caleb Landry Jones who is the best fit for the role. Brandon Cronenberg has made a very impressive debut with his first feature film. At my time of writing this, the film has a 5.6 score, which I think is a little under rated.

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OJT

As I've seen thousands if films, I love to see something completely different. This is! It's a sci-fi horror drama thriller with inspirations from lots of other films, still this story is quite different from anything also.Imagine taking the best visuals of films like A clockwork orange, Ametican Psycho, 1984, Sliver, One flew over the coo-coos nest, Sleepng beauty, Blade runner and The host, combined with the best white movies of Michael Haneke (Amour, Funny games, The white ribbon) early Cronenberg movies like eXistenZ, Crash, Dead ringers, Scanners, Videodrome and Shivers, as well as inspiration from some great zombie movies.This film ticks the following boxes: stylish, pretty, cold, bloody, disgusting, beautiful, sexy, horrifying, sadistic, unexpected, satirical, cynic, innovative... I could go on. I found it very interesting, and kept my interest all way through. Clearly inspired by dad David Cronenberg, Brandon Cronenberg will be a gold mine for Canadian film making, as his father have been. Being his debut film, this is more interesting than most debut films I've seen."- I hope that people will see this film and think that I'm a genius. And they'll be right to think that! Hahahaha". This is a quite from "Anathomy of a virus", the making of Antiviral featured on the newly real eased DVD/Blu-Ray. Well, isn't he just right about that!?!Yeah, it's sick, disgusting and full of insane ideas, but still it puts things in a cynical perspective. Based on an idea which very few would have come up with, this is not for the faint of heart. Still, it's not worse than we know from this genre.It's still far from perfect. I'd like it to be longer (!) and to have a more pointed ending. But it's still worth praise for being different and fresh. It's challenging in more ways than one. You could watch it over and over, getting new thoughts. And I must say I'm not sure what to get out of it. But the stunning visuals, the perfect sterile environment, combined with the dirty rotten elements of a sick future world is fascinating. The slow use of steady am is beautiful, and the film is made on a small budget, giving tremendous value for money.The script is fresh writing, like what Hollywood should kill for these days. I think the acting is astonishing, especially from Caleb Landry Jones, which is electric and balances between super sexy, scary and disgusting. I think this role is really going to establish him as a character actor. The acting also from Malcolm McDowell and the rest of the cast is first class.I find the idea of extreme celebrity obsession getting out of hand, do much that we will do anything to disease ourselves with viruses from their bodies, and eat flesh and meat cloned from our obsessions is both sick and scary. I find it's not far from what we could imagine if possible. Imagine if you could get anything you want, even parts if the likes of Madonna, Michael Jackson or Neldon Mandela.Only for it's aesthetic, clinical, white, clean, sharp, and empty atmosphere the movie us astonishing, and combined with the filthy ideas and red and blackish blood and black suits which disgustingly enough makes the film quite sexy.It's also interesting that it is impossible to read into the film what's up next, but many will hate this for the same reasons I was fascinated. Not everyone will agree, and see beyond the gore and sick ideas. If you agree, you're in for a blast!

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