Antiviral

"The sci-fi horror feature debut from Brandon - son of David - Cronenberg, winner of Best First Feature at Toronto Film Festival 2012. Syd (Caleb Landry Jones) is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans."

"Antiviral never builds the sort of character investment or narrative momentum that would allow its visceral horrors to seriously disturb."

"Accomplished filmmaking from a sci-fi auteur to watch. It's not perfect, but if this is his Shivers we can't wait to see his The Fly."

"The whole movie feels like a case of the sweats, putting you in desperate need of the chicken soup of recognizable human behavior."

"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."

"If Cronenberg's not yet a dead ringer for his iconic dad, he's taken an intriguing first step."

"If David Cronenberg's entire body of work didn't exist, Antiviral would be a revelation."

"If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, David Cronenberg should be feeling pretty chuffed with son Brandon's big-screen debut, a petri dish of high-concept perversity and cultural commentary teeming with lo-fi ickiness."

"A smart, subversive but rather cold debut."

"The movie can be repulsive at times, but Cronenberg is more interested in ideas than in blood and guts."