Brandon Cronenberg To Host Uncut Screenings Of 'INFINITY POOL' And 'POSSESSOR'

Cronenberg will bring his gory frights to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York free of MPA restrictions this June!

Director Brandon Cronenberg has a knack for scaring and disturbing his audiences and with his latest film ‘INFINITY POOL’ he sure brought the rukus. Before this last effor he had another film, ‘POSSESSOR’ that was put on many Horror Top Ten lists. Going back to Infinity Pool, the film sees Alexander Skarsgård on a vacation from Hell as he experiences the haunting culture of a resort he and his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) are visiting. The film was initially given the dreaded NC-17 rating by the MPA but after several big cuts to the film, Cronenberg was able to get it to an R rating instead.

Cronenberg wants fans to experience the full breadth of his sci-fi terror, however, and thus he and distributor NEON have teamed to bring both Infinity Pool and Possessor to three special screenings in their full uncut glory this June to celebrate the former's uncut VOD release on June 13.

The event, aptly titled "‘Brandon Cronenberg Uncut," will see both films played back-to-back in three different locations - June 20 in San Francisco at the Alamo Drafthouse, June 21 in Los Angeles at the Aero Theatre with Beyond Fest and American Cinematheque, and June 23 in New York at the Metrograph. For all three, Cronenberg himself will be there to answer any questions regarding his unique horror features between screenings.

"What makes this special is that this is the first time Infinity Pool is playing free of MPA interference in US theaters – it only played at Sundance," Cronenberg said of the screening. Infinity Pool made its debut at Sundance where it earned solid reviews from those who had the chance to see it. During an interview with Collider out of the festival, Cronenberg even commented on the NC-17 rating system, acknowledging that, while the version audiences saw was mostly the same, there was no avoiding some losses to his vision in the cuts. It was especially important for him, then, to get both films together in their intended form for audiences on the big screen. "Possessor Uncut played Sundance and Beyond Fest in 2020 before playing drive-ins during COVID. It’s the first time these films are playing uncut together.”

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