Showing posts with label Brandon Cronenberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brandon Cronenberg. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 August 2022

Antiviral (2012)


 

A thriving industry sells celebrity illnesses to their obsessed fans. Employee Syd March's attempts to exploit the system backfire when they involve him in a potentially deadly mystery.

A truly dystopian vision presents a future in which capitalist interests have created a market for body modification and the spread of viruses; well made and photographed in clinical whites enhancing the horror of the goings-on and the truly devastating ending.


 

 

Saturday, 5 June 2021

Possessor (2020)


 

An agent works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients. 

Off-kilter science fiction thriller with strong horror elements makes the best of its far-fetched premise to create some stunning visuals, gloomy atmosphere and a highly complex, perplexing twist ending.