Plot: Syd March is an employee who works in a special clinic where fans of celebrities come to get infected with their diseases. Celebrity obsession has reached such extremes that it's become a viable business, with people paying big bucks to share their idol's most recent infection. Syd has a little (shady) business on the side and when one day he is tasked with collecting the latest virus from their biggest star, he seizes the opportunity to smuggle the disease by infecting himself. What he doesn't know is that
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August 27, 2020
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral is a nasty, smart and eerie body horror, mixed with a strong underlying social critique. It's a very deliberate, somewhat slow but extremely atmospheric film that never slips into cheesy pulp territory and left me quite perplexed.