Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool has all the hallmarks and tropes of body horror within its clone story, but fortunately, the focus of its surreal plot avoids a serious sci-fi mistake. When James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) travel to a beautiful island resort, they have no idea the unspeakable terrors that they're going to witness and become a part of. All around them, the wealthy elite partake in the most lurid crimes imaginable, but rather than get executed themselves, they have clones made to accept the repercussions of their hedonism.

Unable to be a party to what she sees, Em returns home, leaving James, a novelist, in the hands of Gabi (Mia Goth), one of his biggest fans and an alluring enabler to his debauchery. As James plunges further into the depths of a sordid fever dream filled with sex and violence throughout the sci-fi movie,...