6 OF THE BEST
Team Empire on the month’s essential movies
PICK OF THE MONTH
INFINITY POOL
OUT 26 JUNE / CERT 18 / 118 MINS
Has Cronenberg out-Cronenberged Cronenberg? With Infinity Pool, director Brandon Cronenberg has made something so outrageous and wild that even his famously outrageous and wild father David might want to have a word. It broadly fits into the recent glut of ‘eat the rich’ satires, but this film’s sensibilities are wackier and more savage than, say, The Menu. Alexander Skarsgård’s holiday-gone-wrong features murder, orgies, breastfeeding, rudimentary cloning, full on-screen ejaculation — and the most outrageous, out-there Mia Goth horror performance since, well, her last one. This is body horror that’s as much psychologically grotesque as it is physically. A pool worth dipping your toe into — at your own risk.