Antiviral2012
“What If You Could Feel Like They Do... We Can Help.”
Directed by Brandon Cronenberg
🏆 6 wins & 12 nominations total
The premise
Syd March is employed 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.
Horror Vault's take
In a near-future where fan devotion has reached a grotesque extreme, a clinic employee secretly profits from selling celebrity illnesses to obsessed admirers — until a dangerous infection turns him from dealer to victim. When a prized celebrity's fate becomes entangled with his own body, survival depends on untangling a web of corporate secrecy and fanatical desire. Brandon Cronenberg's debut feature is a cold, hypnotic descent into a world where flesh is the ultimate luxury good. Visually stark and thematically razor-sharp, it lingers long after the credits roll.
Content: Body Horror, Graphic Injections And Medical Imagery, Gore, Disturbing Themes Around Bodily Commodification
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