Infinity Pool — Rich People Doing Rich Things. Kinda.

By Mike Alexander

Most of us aren’t super wealthy and can cut checks or make phone calls that make unwanted public attention go away — so most of us don’t actually know what goes on behind the veil. Brandon Cronenberg does. And man is it unsettling as we look at……….Infinity Pool.

The success of shows like The White Lotus and Leverage: Redemption (which we recently covered on our sister channel S35 TV) makes it clear that the average viewer loves media that skewers the upper class.

Shows and movies that illustrate the disparity between the wealthy and everyone else are all the rage right now, and we just got a new vision for this sub-genre from a twisted mind of horror royalty: Brandon Cronenberg.

Infinity Pool marks Brandon’s third outing as a writer-director, and it’s… boy, it’s something. This tale of greed, vanity, and violence stars Alexander Skarsgard as James Foster, a failing writer who comes across a wealthy fan named Gabi, played by the recently-crowned scream queen Mia Goth.

James initially entertains Gabi’s attention to inflate his own ego, but his spinelessness and lack of character cause him to get wrapped up in the world of wealthy vacationers who exist above and outside of the law, facing no repercussions for their atrocities even in a…