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A Variety review summary; spoilers omitted; not click bait


Opens wide January 27, 2023.

Variety - Many SPOILERS in the review; describes all story details [IDIOT WRITER]:
https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/infinity-pool-review-alexander-skarsgard-mia-goth-brandon-cronenberg-1235498197/

Brandon Cronenberg goes well past the edge in this deranged critique of Western decadence, featuring Mia Goth as the vixen who leads the up-for-anything 'True Blood' star astray.

In “Infinity Pool,” what happens in Li Tolqa stays in Li Tolqa, an impoverished country where, if they’re rich enough, foreign guests can literally get away with murder. But that’s not the half of it. Visitors hold grotesque, drug-addled orgies at which their genitalia appear to morph before your eyes. The locals host sick rituals, too, wherein miscreants are cloned and then forced to witness their own executions. And then there are the macabre Li Tolqan skin masks.. [Later]...the film takes a sci-fi turn.

Dark Brandon [Cronenberg] seems to have gone off the deep end this time — which is precisely where a certain contingent of horror fans want him... how this movie got an R rating is anybody’s guess). [Originally NC-17, then reduced to R.] ...Brain-shattering as it all is, we can hardly tear our eyes away.

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