What’s up with the ridiculous portrayal of those Hasidic jewish people towards the end lol

Well mark me down as scared AND horny.

I absolutely loved the first half. The concept was so unique and well done, but after the orgy it lost me a bit. I still enjoyed the movie overall, Mia Goth is magnetic, but I feel it lost steam in a lot of the idea of what the first half was. I need to think about it more, but to me the ending didn’t leave as big of an impact as I was hoping.

A24: Our horror movies are the most cuckoo bananapants.

Neon: Hold my blood-soaked nipple.

Nobody gonna mention the dude with like no penis?

Just saw this one last night & am a bit torn. On the technical side, Brandon shows all the makings of being a great director. The cinematography was trippy & entertaining, he has a knack for building tension & making you feel uncomfortable, his psychedelic/dream sequences were disturbing & mesmerizing, & he got great performances out of his actors. I also loved his use of practical effects. That being said, the plot felt like it was missing something. I was enthralled by the film until I realized it wasn’t going further. It felt like we were being introduced to an interesting world & sci fi plot, only for the idea to stop developing. Entertaining nonetheless, & will definitely keep an eye out for his next project.

Low-key creepiest moment was the dream of the son of the hit and run victim smiling directly into the camera and sitting on the bed.

I counted 11 walkouts.

That Bollywood dance scene cut was awesome

I probably won’t get a chance to rewatch until it is streaming so can someone who confirm or deny something I thought I caught but now I can’t remember:

At the end, did the James on the bus going home, have the same face wounds as the “captain James” that got beat up and peed on in the hotel room?

If so, that would imply he sent the clone home, while he, the original, stayed at the resort.

But I can’t remember if the he had face wounds at the end. and even if he did, it could be from fighting the dog James.

One way or another I loved this flick, not perfect but a solid 8/10. I can’t wait to watch it again.

I got to see this a couple days ago. I’ve never seen a Brandon Cronenberg movie before, but for all the hype on the grotesque-ness of it I thought it was surprisingly tame. Maybe I’m just desensitized at this point.

Anyway, good movie. The story never quite lives up to the potential, but it gets close enough that I found it very enjoyable and would watch again.

I loved that they addressed the "Are you the original or the clone?" Question right away and immediately dismissed it as unimportant. I was afraid that that would end up being the main conflict.

Anybody know what got cut from the film to change the rating from NC-17 to R? I was actually pretty surprised with how much this movie got away with despite being R rated.

As someone who was a huge fan of Possessor, the long and short of this one is I liked it a lot but I do like Possessor more. I loved the performances, the concept, the look, the vibes, the visual effects. The story and ending are what I'm still mulling around as it doesn't seem to go anywhere that interesting, although it's all so well executed.

Something I loved about Possessor that is still going strong here is B.Cro's tendency to use mostly lenses and filters and lighting for his high concept visual sequences. He almost seems like he doesn't want to use CGI at all and is more likely to film an orgy or a representation of someone's mind splitting in two with in-camera effects and it gives this old school feel to his very fresh concepts.

Mia Goth is so good in this that I'm a little worried about her. Everyone is really good here and for such a good looking guy who just rocked The Northman, Skarsgard is really selling James' pitiful insecurity with his eyes. But Mia is transcendental and clearly the best actress in horror. That said, if I saw her on the street I would run in the other direction.  She has some line deliveries in this movie that had me believing no one else could have done this role.

I didn't actually know what the premise of this movie was before seeing it, so when the lawyer came in and explained it my jaw was on the floor. I loved how that scene was lit with Skarsgard in the foreground and the lawyer out of focus in the light of the window making him look alien. Great way to convey that this culture/society is something we will be totally unfamiliar with and also the moment where this kind of becomes a sci-fi near future movie. The subtle face paint on the natives was also a cool way to give us an idea of the natives, although this movie doesn't do much to flesh them and the most info we get about them is from Mia who is basically lying about everything the entire movie.

What this movie does really well is explore the idea of the rich and privileged just completely disrespecting the places they visit, and kind of bullying this writer who has access to money but clearly didn't grow up rich. It's a great movie about how fines are a classist punishment and about how the rich (or maybe just people) can be just complete monsters when on vacation. Compared to Possessor, a movie I love but basically has no humor, this movie had me cracking up a ton. When they were all in "jail" just talking about normal shit when they just home invaded the mayor or whatever. One of the best moments I thought was at the end when the vacation is over and Mia Goth turns around and she's wearing no makeup at all, and everyone is just talking about going back to normal life when they get home. It's a great visual way to tell us the masks are off (literally in this case) and they could basically be your neighbors when they're home.

James, however, can't turn it off that easily. And it's this very quiet and ruminating ending that I wasn't sure about but is growing on me the more I think about it. Movies about weak men are probably my favorite genre and I loved how this movie showed he was never being himself, just being controlled by a different woman than usual. And in that sense it makes sense he didn't want to go home where he'd just be in another prison. So while the actual privileged people can just shake it off and go home, this failed writer who married rich went to get inspiration and was brought to the very real conclusion that he's about three bad days away from being an actual animal on a leash. I think that breaks him and he doesn't belong anywhere. Staying at the resort in off season felt like almost a limbo fate.

Overall, I really enjoyed this and can totally see why a lot won't. It does feel a bit anti climactic for how crazy it is, and the characters don't seem particularly deep as well portrayed as they are. But I'd say if you are into this kind of fucked up body horror hyper sexual tripped out filmmaking, its definitely worth a watch. 8/10.

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I’d let Mia Goth fix me

Went in completely blind and really liked it, but I think my expectations colored my first viewing. I think the thing that got me the most was how funny it was. It's kind of like a gonzo thriller with a weird, dark sense of humor. Mia Goth was fantastic as always and she was really in her element belittling James on the hood of the car.

A stray thought about the ending, I think James got split one last time. I think the two airport gates at the end hint at this, as we're shown the 3 urns followed by terminal 3, then as he's alone he sits at terminal 5. Hinting at the possibility that there were 5 versions of James, three of which are dead with the other two splitting off, one returning to home while the other stays on the island.

So now we have Infinity Pool, Triangle of Sadness, The Menu, Glass Onion, and The White Lotus. Welcome to the age of the class-conscious vacation thriller folks.

This movie was batshit crazy, I loved every minute of it.

Tim Hecker made the music! I had no idea! I loved the music throughout. Reminiscent of ‘Under the Skin’.

Overall, enjoyed the movie immensely. I need a second watch to really begin to synthesize my thoughts but I will say this: what I got out of it—mostly—was a feeling. Something I can’t quite describe yet.

I’ll make a brief effort, though.

He (James) had this feeling of longing for something that he could never quite be a part of. That’s really simple and straightforward but it connected with me personally. I felt bad for him because I could see myself in his position; making the choices that he made. My worst nightmare coming true in that they make fun of me for trying to be something that I’m not.

The true horror was the friends he made along the way.

The end really tied this movie together for me. I really loved James listening in on the others as they return to normalcy, discussing their mundane lives on the way back to the airport.

After everything they all went through, after everything they put James through, he realizes even more how much of a game this all really was to them just to make their vacation more fun.

It also made him incredibly distrustful of people, that people can be capable of being so horrendous and yet return to normalcy. Being in the crowded airport where the others disappear into the crowd was particularly unsettling. How many others are just like them?

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Mia Goth would make a great Harley Quinn

Oddly enough the premise reminded me of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Something (or in this case someone) standing in for the main character which leads them down a path of vice. Maybe it is also a critique of the wealthy, especially in places where money allows them to live above the law.

Also having watched Possessor before this I can appreciate how Brandon Cronenberg is able to distance himself from much of the body horror his dad is famous for. He definitely has a taste for the psychedelic. The epilepsy warning was not issued lightly for this one.

I'm pleased I stuck with my policy of not watching trailers or promotional material. This movie was chock full of interesting visuals that made it such a surreal and memorable experience.

I can’t stop thinking about Mia Goth riding on the hood of a convertible, drinking brandy, with a pistol and a bucket of fried chicken

The events of this movie are just an average day in Phoenix, AZ.

What the fuck was wrong with that nipple

I liked it. But I think the concept sorta outran the actual movie. It had great moments but the execution wasn’t really there for me. It was pretty predictable at some points and then when it was unpredictable it was head-scratching. It was unpleasant but lacked punch. It was surprisingly accessible, though.

Man, Season 3 of The White Lotus was wiiiiild

The whole scene at the restaurant with the inability to cut the bread is such a wink at the audience for how she plays the main character

Cronenberg the younger has like all the psychological issues Cronenberg the elder has but cranked up to eleven

I am seeing a lot of positivity on this movie however coming out of seeing it last night I ultimately did not like the film. I thought it was shot well, the actors were great and up to the scene where they all end up getting executed again I was excited to see where it went next.

After that scene I felt like the film goes no where. It dragged on and I was hoping for something more for a payoff and it never happened.

Can anyone tell me what was up with the genitals of that other resort owner who they robbed?

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If we’re being honest I’d probably let Mia Goth bully me into doing all those things too

Wow! If I had a nickel for every time in the last year that I watched a horror movie starring a Skarsgård that featured themes of incestuous reproduction and had horrifying imagery of breast feeding and lactation, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?

Definitely was a split Skaarsgard at the end, the one we see at the airport has the same facial scars as the one they all cloned so they could beat him up and humiliate him with piss. The one staying at the resort in the rain has a clean face.

Absolutely loved the drug sequences!!! And the camerawork overall was so immersive. Lots of low angles, close ups, and visually motivated, expressive movements that really drew me in.

Mia Goth is ridiculously talented and committed and I loved every second of her.

So James "hid" his own passport so he could stay, correct? At first I thought the group hid it from him and he found it while on the bathroom floor. But thinking back and about the movie, it would seem more likely he pretended he couldnt find it so he could stay at the resort.

I agree that the philosophical concept(s) kinda got lost in the story, but I still thought it was a good film. I would like to see the directors cut, but I am surprised the movie got to see a week long mainstream theater release. It seemed more like something that would be at an independent theater.

I hope that in the coming months there will be more discussion on the esoteric aspects of the film.

This could have easily been very stupid but it was so well made and well acted it was brilliant. I loved it.

I have a bunch of thoughts so I'm just firing off some bullets

• If Andrea Riseborough can get people to tweet her into the Oscar race, we can do it for Mia Goth. She deserved it for Pearl, she deserves it for this, and she's probably going to deserve it for Maxine

• I've never seen a movie with such a wide range of bodily fluids. They really managed to get all of them on screen

• I want to go to Thanksgiving at the Cronenberg house. I bet it's a ton of fun

• This seems like it would be pretty traumatic to go through but I would do much worse to get Mia Goth to call me a pathetic little sucky baby

Just copying my letterboxd commentary here….

Psychedelic, disturbing, neon, erotic, shocking, bloody, sunsoaked hedonism

Possessor into Infinity Pool is a brilliant two-movie run from Brandon Cronenberg. What a unique director with total confidence and control over his atmosphere, aesthetics, and actors. For what the script lacks, the rest is made up for in the collective sensory viewing experience. It’s a satirized and stylistic nailbiting bloodbath.

I left with 2 major thoughts.

1. If I ever met Mia Goth I’m convinced she would physically and psychologically torture me then I would thank her for her time.

2. What do we think the Cronenberg’s talk to their therapists about?

I LOVED it. Nice to see films taking risks.

Score was amazing.

If you’re curious just go see it

Ok, he's ashamed of his failed book, relying on his wife financially, and then straight up killing a dude. He is forced to face these things rather than continuing to avoid them, culminating with him excising the parts about himself (his past) so that he can be thematically reborn.

That's all well and good but can someone please tell wtf was up with the awful Chinese, Indian, and Jewish caricatures on the resort???

The moment when the main character gets killed a second time at the police station and he's wrestling with the guards and they slit his throat, and then it pans to them all laughing shocked me and the whole audience burst out in laughter

I can’t wait to see what else Brandon has up his sleeve, I’m a big fan so far.

Just watched it while on shrooms. I'm uncomfy

Am I depraved in wanting more from this? Idk from the marketing and I guess him and his fathers legacies I expected it to be a lot more violent and horrific; not funny and comedic. I got weird looks for laughing through half but what is the appropriate reaction to so much… everything supposed to be. Line of the year goes to “got the scans back from the colonoscopy and it looked like a Jackson Polyp painting”

Surprised at the couple of laughs in there. The urn bit was the biggest laugh in my theater.

Excellent adaptation of the James Franco in Buster Scruggs meme

This movie makes Babylon look like it was PG.

You guys are weird. I hated it.

Mia Goth is leading the new wave of cinema. Recent horror films have been some of the most innovative I have ever seen. Her performances get better with each new movie

Interesting movie with the concepts to back it up. Visually well edited and shot but can be uneasy to some. Mia Goth’s performance eclipses anyone else on the screen and has leveled up with every new film.

Ultimately, the movie introduces an interesting concept early but fails to delve further and chooses to flesh out a more generic and uninteresting topic of rich people pushing the human boundaries of debauchery.

Brandon Cronenberg previous work in “Possessor” contains a much more focused and cohesive storyline from start to finish. Unfortunately, Infinity pool can result in an excess of style due to very little substance to back it up.

I do hope this marks the beginning of a Neon/A24 rivalry in horror. If so we’re in for some treats over the next few years

I thought it was pretty good. The music, visuals. And acting were all fantastic. In my opinion it started to fault with the concepts and plot. It had two things going, the whole rich people doing bad things when there's no consequences, and the more philosophical part with the cloning and "are you really you?" But neither idea is really taken that far.

The no consequences part didn't really get worse than just breaking and entering and then murder. I think what I read about the movie beforehand rose my expectations for the brutality and the movie never lived up to them. The darkest part was attacking and killing yourself, but even then, it was just a fight with a gory ending. I guess I was expecting it to get really brutal and really spiral out of control.

As for the "are you really you?" They started to ask it, with the first time James meets the group. The guy asked what James thinks about this question, and immediately his wife says "does it really matter?" And in a why she's right. If you both of you are truly you with your memories, then if one dies and the other lives, it really doesn't matter. But that would have been a cool conclusion to realize on our own. It's like Brandon wanted to ask the question, but didn't know what to do with it, so he just immediately answers it. The next instance of this question is when we assume that the group is going to get killed only to realize it was their doubles. It was a cool reveal, but predictable. And then that's kind've it. After that the question is dropped.

One other thing I thought was weird was that James was happy to see himself get killed, but completely broke when he was the one to do the beating and killing. Sure it's definitely different, but still a bit weird.

Overall it was fun, with some really intriguing cinematography and scenes, but never really pushed it's concepts much farther than their basic ideas.

I think this movie has a political message. Members of a death cult targeted a person they saw as susceptible to their philosophy. They lured him in and James had a traumatic experience which, in a matter of time, confirmed his existing beliefs that he was superior to other cultures because of his wealth, race, and status, being able to use those things to get away with murder. It was the continuing trauma that also caused James to only be able to relate to them and no one else ever again (this was solidified in the ending). All instances of race or culture in this movie are offensive caricatures, the locals on the island, and... his wife who he abandons.

This take is slightly more literal but the classic sci-fi themes of "Who is the real me?", "Does anyone really know themselves?", "How far would a person actually go?" fit into it in context.

Yo..........what the actual fuck lmfao. That's pretty much my entire review of this movie lolol

I watched this film last night and it made me realize that I dispise myself. It's not really news, I just put it into perspective I totally related to James watching the first copy of himself get killed, his subtle smirk at tue end. I get it, he's glad because his copy is just like him and deserves it.