Ominous scene from Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral is here to transfix you

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

Brandon Cronenberg’s ANTIVIRAL was recently unleashed upon the Cannes Film Festival, so we’re lucky to start glimpsing some promo material from the sure-to-be-unnerving flick. Such a glimpse is available for your pleasure below.

Now, I’m not entirely positive if this is a sequence from the film, or just an unorthodox teaser for it (or maybe both), but it’s rather transfixing either way.

Starring Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Nicholas Campbell, Douglas Smith and Malcolm McDowell:


Antiviral follows Syd March, 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.


ANTIVIRAL star Sarah Gadon

Source: AITH

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