Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Infinity Pool’ Rated NC-17

This week, the MPAA slapped Brandon Cronenberg’s “Infinity Pool” with an NC-17 rating, with an appeal currently underway.

Cronenberg’s last film was the critically-acclaimed “Possessor”. That one premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and one might imagine “Infinity Pool” also having its first screening at Sundance this coming January.

In a recent piece I wrote, titled Reaction to Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Infinity Pool’ Hints at Another NC-17 Shocker, a reader sent a report from a test-screening that occurred for “Infinity Pool.”

Here’s the synopsis:

While on vacation at a resort located in some kind of vaguely defined fascist/authoritarian state, an author (Skarsgaard) leaves the area against the instructions of the staff and, while out on a handjob picnic, kills someone in a drunk driving incident. He is then taken to a prison where he’s told that, since he is rich, he can clone himself and have his double receive the death penalty instead of him.