
Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communion - for a price. Syd also supplies illegal samples of these viruses to piracy groups, smuggling them from the clinic in his own body. 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... (Full plot summary below)
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Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communion - for a price. Syd also supplies illegal samples of these viruses to piracy groups, smuggling them from the clinic in his own body. 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.
Leave your thoughts about Antiviral.
| New York TimesStephen HoldenAt a certain point, Antiviral doesn’t know where to go or how to break out of its vacuum-sealed sepulcher, and Syd, even when vomiting blood, remains as incorporeal and creepy as a ghost. This is a movie that drinks its own tainted blood. |
| KPBS.orgBeth AccomandoOriginality is a rare commodity in art, so when something fresh and unexpected comes my way, it's cause for celebration. Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral is cause for celebration. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldThe 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. |
| indieWireEric KohnThe younger Cronenberg has made a derivative exercise in body horror that plays as little more than low rent Cronenberg pastiche. |
| Radio TimesAlan JonesThis dark fable is a subversive stomach-churner and not for the faint-hearted. |
| Observer (UK)Philip FrenchAntiviral is an accomplished piece of work ... |
| The Ooh TrayEd WhitfieldLike his progenitor, Brandon likes a bad taste burlesque but so do you, so let's not rush to judgement. |
| NerdistLuke Y. ThompsonGreat premise for a Twilight Zone episode, but where do you take it from there? Nowhere much, unfortunately. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyProof that there's room for more than one brainy provocateur in the Cronenberg gene-pool. |
| OregonianMarc MohanThere's a certain bravery in Brandon's full embrace of the themes of Cronenberg père, who may be returning the favor with his next film, the Hollywood satire "Maps to the Stars." |