Infinity Pool
2023
*
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman, Jalil Lespert, Amanda Bruge, John Ralston, Jeffrey Ricketts, Caroline Boulton, Thomas Kretschmann
A layabout novelist and his rich wife are on vacation in the fictional island nation of Li Tolqa. After he accidentally runs over a local man, he is introduced to the country's unorthodox justice system and discovers a peculiar community of returning tourists. Brandon Cronenberg's scifi horror film has an intriguing concept: what happens when people are allowed to act out their wildest desires without any consequence? Like his father David, Brandon fills the screen with so much gore, soft core porn, bodily fluids, and general unpleasantness, that I lost any interest in the story and the characters before the halfway point.
