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title: "Infinity Pool"
year: 2023
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canonical: "https://film.one/film/infinity-pool"
fi1m_id: "infinity-pool"
imdb_id: "tt10365998"
tmdb_id: 667216
wikidata_id: "Q109312634"
fi1m_score: 63
critics_score: 66
critics_reviews: 20
published: "2026-09-10"
updated: "2026-09-18T08:38:09.018721+00:00"
region: "SE"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Infinity Pool (2023)

Directed by Brandon Cronenberg · 1h 58m · Statens medieråd 15 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

## Identity

Infinity Pool

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/film/infinity-pool
- **Type:** Film
- **Fi1m ID:** infinity-pool
- **IMDb ID:** tt10365998
- **TMDB ID:** 667216
- **Wikidata ID:** Q109312634
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10365998/, https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/667216, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109312634

**Fi1m score: 63** · Critics 66 from 20 reviews

*In a sentence:* The all-inclusive now covers your own execution, and the guests are still bored by the second week

> David Cronenberg’s has a premise most horror films would envy, an hour that uses it well and an hour that repeats it. Mia Goth, grinning and bellowing as the tormentor by the pool, is the reason to stay to the end.

## Synopsis

James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård), a novelist with one book behind him, is on holiday with his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) at a luxury resort on a poor island, where the guests are kept behind a fence and told not to leave it. Gabi (Mia Goth), who says she admires his book, and her husband Alban (Jalil Lespert) persuade the Fosters to spend a day outside the compound. Driving back at night, James hits and kills a local man. The penalty is death, but the state offers an alternative: for a fee it will grow an exact double of him to be executed in his place, while he watches. David Cronenberg’s writes and directs; Thomas Kretschmann plays the official who explains the terms.

## Review

David Cronenberg’s’s third film opens at a luxury resort on a poor island where the guests are told not to leave the compound. The local law, it turns out, is for sale. A man who kills here can be executed, or he can pay to have an exact double of himself grown and executed in his place, provided he sits and watches. That is the idea and it is a fine one. *Infinity Pool* uses it well for about an hour, then does it again, louder. Mia Goth carries the second hour alone.

James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) is a novelist with one book behind him and no second in sight, on holiday with his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman), whose money is paying. Gabi (Goth) stops him by the pool to say she loved the book, and she and her husband Alban (Jalil Lespert) take the Fosters out past the fence for a day. Driving back in the dark, James hits a man on the road and kills him. A few scenes later he is in a bare room watching a copy of himself being led out to die. Cronenberg, who also wrote the script, holds on this for a long time, and we were horrified: not by the blood, which is brief, but by Skarsgård’s face watching Skarsgård’s face, one frightened and one curious.

Karim Hussain shoots the resort in flat, overlit daylight and then starts tipping the camera, so that whole conversations play on a tilt or upside down. When the tourists take a local drug, he and the editor James Vandewater turn the screen into a churn of skin, teeth and coloured light, cut so fast the frame stops being anywhere. Tim Hecker’s score is drones and smeared brass, a low pressure under every scene that swells when nothing on screen has asked it to. Zosia Mackenzie designs the compound in beige wicker and white walls, and Mária Fatér dresses the guests in resort linen and Gabi in things chosen to be seen from the far side of a pool.

Goth plays Gabi as a woman who has found the one place on earth where her cruelty is legal, and is delighted. She grins, she needles, she bellows James’s name across a hillside in a voice that could strip paint, and every hostile thing she says has the lilt of a hostess offering a drink. Skarsgård does the opposite job, going smaller and blanker as the film goes on, a large handsome man shrinking inside his own body. There is a scene in which he is made to go about on all fours, and the film means us to laugh, and we did, and then felt slightly ashamed of ourselves.

The trouble is that the film has said what it means by the end of the first act: the rich can buy their way out of anything, including their own deaths, and once they know it they go looking for things to be forgiven for. The second hour shows them doing exactly that, in set pieces each bloodier than the last, none of which tells us anything the execution room had not. The script loses interest in Em once the plot is running, which wastes Coleman, and the other tourists (Amanda Brugel, Jeff Ricketts, Caroline Boulton) are dressed, named and given nothing to do but drink and leer. By the fourth outrage we were checking how long was left, and then cross that a film this well made had let us.

Against Cronenberg’s own record it is a step sideways. *Possessor* (2020) had one violent idea and kept turning it, so that each scene put the idea somewhere new. This has a better idea and moves it less. Since every review mentions his father, we will too: David Cronenberg’s *Dead Ringers* (1988) also gave a man his own face on someone else, and it knew what to do with the fear for the whole running time.

It carries an 18 certificate and uses every minute of it. See it for the first hour and for Goth, with someone who will not mind being told how bad rich people are. If you find yourself around the seventy-minute mark wondering why any of these people are still on the island, so were we. It runs 118 minutes.

*Fi1m score 63, published 10 September 2026.*

## What the critics say

Most critics find Infinity Pool a lurid, confidently made piece of body horror aimed at the very rich, and the praise settles almost entirely on Mia Goth, whose performance as the resort’s resident agent of chaos is singled out again and again as the reason to watch. Alexander Skarsgård is credited nearly as often for a cold, self-loathing turn, and several reviews admire the hallucinatory imagery and the sheer nerve of the sex and violence.

The reservations cluster around what lies underneath: a recurring complaint is that the cloning premise promises more than the script delivers, that the satire of wealth and tourism stays at surface level, and that the shocks turn numbing by the final stretch. The spread is wide. The AV Club calls it brilliant; The Wrap says it squanders its premise on generic ideas about insecure masculinity, and The Skinny finds the shock value produces apathy rather than discomfort.

## Straight answers

**Is Infinity Pool worth watching?**

*Infinity Pool* is worth watching for its first hour and for Mia Goth, and we scored it 63. The premise, a resort where the rich can pay to have a double executed in their place, is used well and then repeated in bloodier set pieces that add nothing. It suits horror viewers who will forgive a second half that runs out of things to say.

**How long is Infinity Pool, and what is it rated?**

*Infinity Pool* runs 1h 58m and is rated 15 by the Statens medieråd in Sweden. It is a horror and science fiction film.

**Where can I watch Infinity Pool in Sweden?**

*Infinity Pool* is available to rent from Amazon Prime Video from kr 39.00. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service.

**How violent or frightening is Infinity Pool, and is it suitable for children?**

*Infinity Pool* carries an 18 certificate and earns it, so it is not for children or younger teenagers. The violence is brief in the execution scene but the second hour is built from increasingly bloody set pieces, and a drug sequence turns the screen into a churn of skin, teeth and coloured light. The squeamish should stay away.

**How does Infinity Pool compare to Dead Ringers?**

*Infinity Pool* and [*Dead Ringers*](https://film.one/film/dead-ringers) are films by son and father, and both put a man's own face on someone else. The father's film is the better one: it keeps turning its fear for the whole running time, while the son's has the stronger idea and moves it less. Pick *Dead Ringers* for sustained unease and *Infinity Pool* for Mia Goth and a sharper first hour.

**What should I watch after Infinity Pool?**

After *Infinity Pool*, try [*Possessor*](https://film.one/film/possessor) (2020, Fi1m 73): Cronenberg’s previous film, tighter and nastier, with one idea it actually finishes. Then [*Dead Ringers*](https://film.one/film/dead-ringers) (1988, Fi1m 87): The father’s film about two identical men, and what the same face can hide; and [*Triangle of Sadness*](https://film.one/film/triangle-of-sadness) (2022, Fi1m 66): The idle rich on holiday, punished more slowly and with far more vomit.

### Reviews we read (27)

- **The AV Club**, Jordan Hoffman (A-): Brandon Cronenberg expands on his father’s body-horror style in a brilliant, disturbing thriller that takes down wealth and privilege through unexpected, unnerving territory and self-destruction. It dives deep into violence and group deviance while questioning identity. [Read](https://www.avclub.com/a-review-of-alexander-skarsgards-new-thriller-infinity-1849996587)
- **Little White Lies**, Hannah Strong (3/4/4): Cronenberg delivers a visually engrossing and gross slice of nightmare fuel heavy on vibes rather than plot, a grubby downer of a holiday movie that tackles dark tourism and desire with seductive, sickening style. [Read](https://lwlies.com/festivals/infinity-pool-first-look-review)
- **Los Angeles Times**, Katie Walsh (80/100, inferred): Brandon Cronenberg’s latest is a weird and wonderful identity crisis-as-body horror film that serves as a biting satire of wealth and colonial tourism. Mia Goth delivers a ferocious, fearless, and funny performance as the seductive and sadistic Gabi. [Read](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-01-25/review-infinity-pool-brandon-cronenberg-mia-goth-alexander-skarsgard-horror)
- **Radio Times**, Patrick Cremona (4/5): Cronenberg crafts an uneasy offbeat atmosphere with kaleidoscopic visuals and body horror bursts, making for a fascinatingly unusual work that poses interesting questions about the darker side of the human psyche. [Read](https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-17v3js/infinity-pool/)
- **Time Out**, Ed Gibbs (4/5): Cronenberg serves up a deliriously depraved satire of super-rich excess and tourists behaving badly, a twisted sci-fi-comedy-horror ride full of gore, orgies and hallucinogens that is damn-near unmissable and addictive. [Read](https://www.timeout.com/movies/infinity-pool-2023)
- **RogerEbert.com**, Brian Tallerico (75/100, inferred): Cronenberg delivers a wildly surreal and compelling body horror film about privilege and morality that takes big swings even if not all land perfectly. The committed performances, especially Mia Goth's riveting turn, help make it confidently made and worth watching. [Read](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/infinity-pool-movie-review-2023)
- **Screen Daily** (70/100, inferred): The film is a singularly unnerving experience punctuated by outlandish and disquieting moments that compensate for an episodic and repetitive script, with Skarsgård's icy performance perfectly attuned to the chilly vision. [Read](https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/infinity-pool-sundance-review/5178377.article)
- **Variety**, Peter Debruge (70/100, inferred): Cronenberg goes off the deep end in this deranged critique of Western decadence featuring grotesque imagery and a cautionary tale of runaway hedonism at a resort where the rich can literally get away with murder. Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth deliver courageous and cackling performances amid the brain-shattering nightmare logic. [Read](https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/infinity-pool-review-alexander-skarsgard-mia-goth-brandon-cronenberg-1235498197/)
- **The Telegraph** (60/100, inferred): The critic describes the film as a raunchy, provocative sci-fi shocker with a brilliant conceit involving cloning after a hit-and-run on a poverty-stricken island resort, but notes that the premise is left naggingly unfulfilled amid orgiastic and gore-soaked elements reminiscent of The White Lotus. It focuses on the wealthy tourists' descent into violence and the clone procedure's ramifications. [Read](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/infinity-pool-review-mia-goth-alexander-skarsgard-take-raunchy/)
- **Vulture** (60/100, inferred): The third and best Cronenberg film to date offers extreme imagery and a phantasmagoric ode to staying too long at the party, but the woozy spectacles eventually become numbing. It portrays soulless jet-setters as walking dead. [Read](https://www.vulture.com/article/infinity-pool-review-a-numbing-spectacle.html)
- **Sight and Sound** (50/100, inferred): The critic finds less than meets the eye in this hermetic if visually striking horror, with Skarsgård and Goth chewing scenery amid plenty of viscera but little depth beyond the premise of cloned punishment for wealthy tourists. [Read](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/infinity-pool-theres-not-much-inside-brandon-cronenbergs-latest-besides-whole-lot-viscera)
- **Slant Magazine** (50/100, inferred): Cronenberg fixates on freaking viewers out with lurid sci-fi provocation, trippy visuals, and bacchanalian revelry but neglects deeper substance, staying in the shallow end. It evokes other extreme films but lacks the clinical distance of his father’s work. [Read](https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/infinity-pool-review-alexander-skarsgard-mia-goth-brandon-cronenberg/)
- **IndieWire**, Ryan Lattanzio (40/100, inferred): Cronenberg’s explicit psychedelic thriller is cold and clammy despite fearlessly warped turns from Skarsgård and Goth. The hedonistic tourism story stays shallow. [Read](https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/infinity-pool-review-mia-goth-alexander-skarsgard-brandon-cronenberg-1234802492/)
- **Empire**, Sophie Butcher: The critic describes a slick, satirical, insane thrill-ride that dazzles with dark sci-fi conceits, black humour and visceral violence, answering what terrible things rich people would do without accountability. It highlights Mia Goth's genius, demented femme fatale performance as the main draw. [Read](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/infinity-pool/)
- **Financial Times**, Leslie Felperin (★★★★☆): The review positions the film as sophisticated, nihilistic sci-fi body horror comparable to David Cronenberg's best work, commending its exploration of wealth, repulsion, and moral murkiness through the leads' performances, especially Alexander Skarsgård's portrayal of cruelty and self-loathing. It calls the movie bracing and up there with classics like Dead Ringers. [Read](https://www.ft.com/content/6bf8c25f-2ead-4c93-bfb3-1ae0ff5bea67)
- **The Guardian**, Peter Bradshaw: The critic highlights Mia Goth's live-wire, anarchic performance as the standout element driving Brandon Cronenberg's satirical thriller about wealthy tourists on a remote island resort who become entangled in cloning and doppelganger paranoia. It praises the film's stylish, visceral body-horror approach and black comedy while noting its nightmarish logic and appeal to fans of boundary-pushing cinema. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/26/infinity-pool-review-mia-goth-electrifies-in-a-nightmarish-thriller)
- **The Hollywood Reporter**, David Rooney: The film is an ultraviolent satire of unchecked privilege at a luxury resort, essentially The White Lotus with gore and cloning, but it lacks substance beyond shock value. Skarsgård and Goth deliver committed performances amid the body horror and depravity. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/infinity-pool-review-alexander-skarsgard-mia-goth-brandon-cronenberg-1235310682/)
- **The Independent**, Geoffrey Macnab: The critic finds the film luridly enjoyable and creepy, with sudden tonal shifts blending blood-churning moments, dark humour and thought-provoking satire on the wealthy. It praises the performances of Skarsgård and especially Goth as the provocative agent of mischief. [Read](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/infinity-pool-movie-review-uk-release-b2306218.html)
- **The i Paper**, Christina Newland: The review calls it depraved, sexually ambivalent and disturbing, with Hitchcock-on-acid weirdness, sly social commentary and mind-bending sequences targeting wealth and moral decay. It singles out Goth's unique, menacing and hypnotic performance as the standout. [Read](https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/infinity-pool-review-sexy-depraved-hitchcock-acid-brandon-cronenberg-2226254)
- **Total Film**, Neil Smith: The review finds it stylish but ultimately shallow, praising fresh ways to disturb and nauseate via camera work and masks, plus strong committed performances from Skarsgård and Goth, while questioning if there is much more to it beyond hedonistic thrills and boundaries-testing scenes. [Read](https://www.gamesradar.com/infinity-pool-review/)
- **Deadline**, Damon Wise (80/100, inferred): The film is Cronenberg’s most original and ambitious yet, a nightmarish fusion of influences that gets under the skin with its extreme cinema. It explores an artist’s quest to feel alive through perverse ideas about identity, autonomy, graphic violence and sex. [Read](https://deadline.com/2023/01/sundance-review-brandon-cronenbergs-infinity-pool-1235237199/)
- **Collider**, Ross Bonaime (B-): The critic finds the film a mix of shocking imagery and uneven narrative, praising the abstract horror sequences and performances by Skarsgård and Goth but noting it doesn't fully explore its class themes. [Read](https://collider.com/infinity-pool-review/)
- **Consequence** (70/100, inferred): The critic describes the film as a wild, shocking, and perverse bloody mess that doubles down on hedonistic and transgressive elements, praising its exploration of the idle rich and colonial tourism wrapped in extreme imagery. [Read](https://consequence.net/2023/01/infinity-pool-review-brandon-cronenberg-sundance/)
- **NME**, Lou Thomas (70/100, inferred): The film is a riot of sex, murder and intoxication with appropriate sonic ferocity. It praises Mia Goth's chilling performance while noting it is not for the squeamish. [Read](https://www.nme.com/reviews/film-reviews/infinity-pool-review-3385979)
- **Film Stories**, Ryan Lambie (65/100, inferred): The critic describes Infinity Pool as a deeply weird, often flawed film with imagery and ideas that linger. It begins as a wry comment on the corrupting power of wealth before descending into a trippy quagmire of excess, with some jarringly outlandish scenes threatening the tension, though strong performances from Skarsgård and Goth help bridge the halves. [Read](https://filmstories.co.uk/reviews/infinity-pool-review-alexander-skarsgards-gone-on-holiday-by-mistake/)
- **The Skinny**, Fernando García (★★): Cronenberg's third film fails to deliver on its transgressive ambitions due to a weak script, resulting in shock value that induces apathy rather than discomfort. [Read](https://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-releases/infinity-pool)
- **The Wrap** (30/100, inferred): The film squanders a promising high-concept premise on generic themes of insecure masculinity and fails to explore its ideas meaningfully. Extreme sex and violence amount to little more than superficial, disappointing imagery for fans of the genre. [Read](https://www.thewrap.com/infinity-pool-review-alexander-skarsgard-mia-goth/)

## Details

- **Director:** Brandon Cronenberg
- **Director:** Brandon Cronenberg
- **Writer:** Brandon Cronenberg
- **Cinematography:** Karim Hussain
- **Editor:** James Vandewater
- **Music:** Tim Hecker
- **Production design:** Zosia Mackenzie
- **Costume design:** Mária Fatér
- **Producer:** Noah Segal, Christina Piovesan, Andrew Cividino
- **Cast:** Alexander Skarsgård as James Foster; Mia Goth as Gabi Bauer; Cleopatra Coleman as Em Foster; Jalil Lespert as Alban Bauer; Adam Boncz as Ketch; Amanda Brugel as Jennifer; John Ralston as Dr. Modan; Jeff Ricketts as Charles
- **Runtime:** 1h 58m
- **Certificate (Statens medieråd):** 15
- **Release (Sweden):** 24 March 2023
- **Genres:** Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
- **Budget:** $4 million
- **Box office:** $5 million
- **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5mfHz-5dx8

## Where to watch in Sweden

- Amazon Prime Video: rent kr 39.00, hd
- Amazon Prime Video: buy kr 49.00, hd

*Checked 2026-09-10.*

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## If you liked this

- *Possessor* (2020), Fi1m 73: Cronenberg’s previous film, tighter and nastier, with one idea it actually finishes. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/possessor.md)
- *Dead Ringers* (1988), Fi1m 87: The father’s film about two identical men, and what the same face can hide. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/dead-ringers.md)
- *Triangle of Sadness* (2022), Fi1m 66: The idle rich on holiday, punished more slowly and with far more vomit. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/triangle-of-sadness.md)
- *Society* (1989), Fi1m 80: The wealthy are literally another species; the last twenty minutes are unforgettable. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/dead-poets-society.md)
- *Under the Skin* (2013), Fi1m 81: A stranger among people who do not know what she is; patient and cold. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/under-the-skin.md)

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