It’s Valentine’s Day, which means for some people it’s time to spread love, but for most people it’s one of the most dreadful days of the year. Thankfully, if you’re a lover of horror, Neon and director Brandon Cronenberg have your bloody holiday plans set as Infinity Pool has made its way to digital.
The announcement was made with Neon hilariously cutting the film together like it was your standard mushy Hallmark romantic comedy. Alexander Skarsgård’s James is the classic struggling writer when he meets Mia Goth’s Gabi on his dreamy island vacation with his unappreciative fiancé. It’s a bubbly story as old as time, but if you’ve seen this crazy film you know that couldn’t be any further from the truth. Like the new trailer quickly reminds you, this film isn’t a happy love story. Infinity Pool might be one of the most anti-Valentine’s Day movies to come along in recent memory. It earns its hard R-rating with its extremely dark themes of identity, disgusting body horror involving cloning, and an orgy scene that will be burnt into your head for a very long time.
You can definitely tell why this film almost received the dreaded NC-17 rating, because you’ll be an exhausted emotional wreck when this vacation from hell finally ends. Mainly because Goth gives another brilliantly psychotic performance — Gabi’s such a deeply disturbing and intimately vile character, one of the most fascinating villains the horror genre has ever seen. She makes Goth’s other genre icon, Pearl, look like a petty amateur.
