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Overall Rank: 14963
Average Rating: 2.4/4
# of Ratings: 7
Theatrical Release Date: 05/16/2012
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 08/06/2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Actors: Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell, Douglas Smith, Joe Pingue, Nicholas Campbell
Plot: In the future the new rage to get closer to the celebrity of your choice is by infecting yourself with the same virus they currently carry. Syd March runs a successful clinic that specializes in this new practice and when Hannah Geist creates a new strain, in order to reap the profits, he infects himself to carry it. But Geist dies a few days later and suddenly March is in a race against time before he succumbs to the same fate. -- Chris Kavan
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Chris Kavan - wrote on 08/16/2013
To say our society is celebrity-obsessed is an understatement. What Antiviral does is take this unhealthy fascination and just go somewhere very dark and kind of disgusting: how close do you want to get to your favorite celebrity? How about injecting a strain of hepetitus straight into your lip they carried! Or getting the exact same strain of flu. Or eating a "steak" grown from their cells. It's quite disturbing and it's a sure sign that Brandon Cronenberg is not afraid to take on the same twisted subject matter his father, David, is know for. Antiviral isn't perfect, but it's a good start. And the end kicker is a sight to see.
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