Along with Julie Ducournau, Brandon Cronenberg is one of the most exciting, twisted directors to break through in the last decade. His latest uncomfortably funny sensory assault INFINITY POOL follows James (Alexander Skarsgård) a struggling author who has married rich and is holidaying in a perfect nightmare of a resort somewhere in Europe. Soon he gets drawn into the orbit of a gang of awful, privileged fellow guests led by Gabi (Mia Goth) who get their kicks through hallucinogen-fuelled orgies and murder without consequence, because if you’re rich enough the punishment for any heinous crime can be passed on to a purpose-built clone of yourself… Cronenberg delved into identity disassociation as a vehicle for horror in his previous film POSSESSOR and here it is used as a satirical sledgehammer standing in for inhumanity in a capitalist system. Skarsgård dials back his natural charisma to play a frankly pathetic, detestable man and Goth continues one hell of a run in horror as perhaps the most terrifying but also hilarious antagonist in recent genre cinema. SSP