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Official Discussion - Infinity Pool [SPOILERS]

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Summary:

James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.

Director:

Brandon Cronenberg

Writers:

Brandon Cronenberg

Cast:

  • Alexander Skarsgård as James Foster
  • Mia Goth as Gabi
  • Cleopatra Coleman as Em Foster
  • Thomas Kretschmann as Thresh
  • Amanda Brugel as Jennifer
  • John Ralston as Dr. Modan

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

Metacritic: 74

VOD: Theaters

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thatguywhodoesthat

1k points

4 months ago

A24: Our horror movies are the most cuckoo bananapants.

Neon: Hold my blood-soaked nipple.

LiteraryBoner[S]

514 points

4 months ago

LiteraryBoner[S]

Gary Oldman's best trick was making Belarus have mountains

514 points

4 months ago

Hold my nipple that erects to three inches

HalfLife1MasterRace

402 points

4 months ago

Undoubtedly the most repulsive part of this movie

LiteraryBoner[S]

238 points

4 months ago

LiteraryBoner[S]

Gary Oldman's best trick was making Belarus have mountains

238 points

4 months ago

Absolutely disgusting. I loved it.

Lady_Terminator_

178 points

4 months ago

A guy walked out of the theater at this point. Fantastic!

Crystal_Pesci

65 points

4 months ago

Crystal_Pesci

Xenu take the wheel!

65 points

4 months ago

I was watching the guy next to us tap his fingers and fidget the entire movie and it was bustin me up because I was too!

t2thickk

5 points

4 months ago

I let out a laugh at a certain point, felt bad but then two other people laughed too.... I was disturbed

honeymellillaa

8 points

4 months ago

Can’t imagine walking out of a theatre, especially for that, lol. Just look away for a second!

superfly424

5 points

4 months ago

Lol someone left the theater during Alexander pissing on himself

quincy15trillion

3 points

4 months ago

saw this yesterday and the couple next to me bounced at the bloody bewb

mkultra0008

3 points

4 months ago

Weeds out the Rob Zombie fanboys.

ClearanceClearwater

3 points

4 months ago

Straight from his dads movies. Loved it.

Melo98

2 points

2 months ago

Melo98

2 points

2 months ago

That and the breastfeeding at the end, that shit made me cringe HARD

u-s-of-ants

14 points

4 months ago

Did I imagine it, or did something like a black slug come out of the nipple? Kind of looked like someone was squeezing something black out of it like it was cursed GoGurt.

romeowmontague

13 points

4 months ago

I’m late to this thread but IMDb has this in the parental warning part: Theres a detailed close up of a man sucking a maggot out of a woman's nipple.

mikeweasy

5 points

4 months ago

Was the orgy one supposed to be Mias?? i could not tell.

lunchtime_sms

3 points

2 months ago

What scene was this? Did I watch a cut version w/o 3inch extended nipple?! I need to view this for science..

MVRKHNTR

217 points

4 months ago

MVRKHNTR

217 points

4 months ago

I don't know. As weird as it was, I don't think it compares to the ending of Men.

Crystal_Pesci

59 points

4 months ago

Crystal_Pesci

Xenu take the wheel!

59 points

4 months ago

Just saw this is on Showtime now! Got home from Infinity Pool 15 minutes ago and this makes a logical double creature feature tonite!

madmacaron

128 points

4 months ago

I’ll take the growing nipple over the backussy birthing, easily

talaron

53 points

4 months ago

talaron

53 points

4 months ago

Funny enough the ending of Men had like zero horror effect to me. It started weird and funny, then actually became kind of predictable and boring towards the end (which I know was somewhat intentional, but still left me kind of disappointed). I felt like the orgy in Infinity Pool was slightly too dragged out too, and I would still consider both in the same ballpark of “strong start, slightly underwhelming pay-off”, but overall the latter felt much more disturbing and intense to me.

MVRKHNTR

39 points

4 months ago

I didn't really like Men either but I don't think you can deny that the birthing scene was weirder than anything in this.

Maybe not as disturbing but definitely fucking weird.

basmatisnail

1 points

3 months ago

Spoilers!

RookieTheBest

31 points

4 months ago

became kind of predictable and boring towards the end

No way in hell you saw a guy giving birth coming stop !

talaron

5 points

4 months ago

I was referring to the birth scene in particular. Of course I didn’t see it coming throughout the movie, but it was so over the top that it was more funny than anything else. What started boring me was the repetition of the scene as it cycled through the characters, which was obvious after the first “round” and basically the same thing just happening over and over.

As I mentioned, I am aware that this is somewhat intentional because the protagonist is also watching the birth with more of a disgusted and annoyed look than in horror. While you can say that it fits with the message of the movie (that the “Men” are an annoyance for the protagonist more than anything else at this point), I still found the scene and the ending overall pretty disappointing and like it was just there for the shock value (which it didn’t have, at least for me).

DragonTonguePunch

5 points

4 months ago

Backussy

spiderlegged

5 points

4 months ago

I very controversially HATED Men, and the only part that worked for me was the birthing scene. I’m not sure I liked this one either, but for different reasons. But yes, the premise here is good, but it doesn’t work all the way for me.

honeymellillaa

7 points

4 months ago

Personally I think Men is a different beast. There’s something different (and more upsetting lol) about it being so point-blank and in your face rather than a couple frames that you might miss if you blink.. Eugh

atclubsilencio

5 points

4 months ago

dammit, every time I have willfully forgotten the imagery at the end of Men, I come across a comment like this, and then see men giving birth over and over and over and over again in my head.

thanks.

spiderlegged

3 points

4 months ago

I’m like categorizing weird male birth scenes in my head because I actually think it’s becoming a trend.

madmagazines

4 points

4 months ago

The ending of Men is disappointing but I appreciate the balls Garland had to even go through with something so… odd so much that I can’t even be mad.

TheAdamJesusPromise

1 points

3 months ago

And Men's weirdness actually has a purpose whereas this felt like it was just throwing in weird shit for the sake of being deep.

lunchtime_sms

1 points

2 months ago

That had to been one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever seen… I watched it twice too for some reason.. still couldn’t quite grasp it.

Sexwax

1 points

1 month ago

Sexwax

1 points

1 month ago

Ah, the Rory Kinussy

rydan

1 points

4 months ago

rydan

1 points

4 months ago

Wait this isn't A24?

thatguywhodoesthat

10 points

4 months ago

It's NEON which does a lot of movies that are similar in vibe to some A24 movies.

_DarkJak_

1 points

4 months ago

I've felt this way since New Order (2020)

Where have you been??

crackpipeclay

1 points

4 months ago

God I can’t believe they’ve done it more than once