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How sick can fans of a celebrity get? Very, answers "Antiviral." Imagine fan fetish culture metastasizing. A pox on consumers and capitalists alike, Brandon Cronenberg sneers.
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
Antiviral
What If You Could Feel Like They Do... We Can Help.
2012 · 1h 50m · NOT RATED
Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
Brandon Cronenberg
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Brandon Cronenberg Director
- Caleb Landry Jones as Syd March
- Sarah Gadon as Hannah Geist
- Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Abendroth
- Joe Pingue as Arvid
- Sheila McCarthy as Dev Harvey
- Douglas Smith as Edward Porris
- Wendy Crewson as Mira Tesser
- Nicholas Campbell as Dorian
- James Cade as Levine
- Dawn Greenhalgh as Jane
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
65%
Tomatometer
Rotten
If Cronenberg's not yet a dead ringer for his iconic dad, he's taken an intriguing first step.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
The pace is uneven, the energy sluggish (even the arrival of Malcolm McDowell in the third act doesn't pep things up) and the film feels overlong.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Rotten
What Jones hasn't been given is a character to play. Syd is a cipher, neither sympathetic nor hateful, nor even interestingly human.
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
Rotten
Eventually the clammy spell of this handsomely designed but solemnly paced movie begins to wear off, and you long for a little action or at least some fresh air.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
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