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Antiviral
Syd March works in Lucas Clinic, an company which purchases viruses and pathogens from sick celebrities in order to inject them to obsess fan. One time while harvesting a pathogen from Hannah, he infected with the disease that kills her afterward. Syd must fight against Hannah's fan to find his way to survive.
31 May 1975, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
24 March 1952, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1934, Shanghai, China
22 June 1985, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1982, Canada
23 April 1960, London, Ontario, Canada
1 January 1956, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
7 December 1989, Garland, Texas, USA
13 June 1943, Horsforth, Yorkshire, England, UK
9 May 1956, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
July 15, 2015
Antiviral is what happens when you make a movie around a fleetingly interesting idea but forget to find a story in it.
June 12, 2013
The script is thin but effectively creepy as it examines contemporary pop culture obsessions while maximizing the queasy close-ups of needles, blood and medical procedures.
November 25, 2013
With an obsession for close-ups of needles piercing skin, Antiviral leaves one with a OCD-style desire to wash ones hands... the overreaching success of the film lies in its believable depiction of a culture slowly rotting at the core.
May 23, 2017
I respect ANTIVIRAL, but I can't say I liked it. But then again, I'm not sure it wants to be liked. In fact, I believe it's trying very hard to make you not like it.
July 16, 2014
...a ridiculous and flat-out dumb premise that's employed to terminally underwhelming effect by Cronenberg...
April 12, 2013
What Jones hasn't been given is a character to play. Syd is a cipher, neither sympathetic nor hateful, nor even interestingly human.
August 24, 2015
A tough, almost willfully difficult movie, but it's fascinating more often than it is dramatically off-putting.
May 11, 2013
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.
April 11, 2013
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.
April 11, 2013
Before long, the aggressive sleekness of Antiviral becomes its own kind of ennui.
April 18, 2013
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.
April 19, 2013
If Cronenberg's not yet a dead ringer for his iconic dad, he's taken an intriguing first step.
