SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Honestly, don't bother unless you enjoy constantly seeing shots of needles inserted, blood, and sickly looking people. That is all the movie will deliver; the only emotional response it will invoke is disdain. No matter how interesting the concept may seem, this movie doesn't do it justice.Things going for it: A novel concept. A few artistic scenesOn the other hand, it fails to fully exploit the concept, and the aforementioned scenes seem randomly inserted into the film with no real connection to the plot. With no background history provided, it is impossible to understand the world view of the characters, and thus impossible to form an emotional connection/emphasize with them. The sickly and gross scenes make you feel ill, but without any titillation, they literally just make you feel yuck. On top of it all, the movie often feels slow, and you wonder why you are watching it. How that can possibly happen with such a novel concept I don't know.Really, I can't recommend it. It doesn't do the concept justice. It doesn't do cinema justice. It is a struggle to keep watching it - reading the Wikipedia entry is more rewarding; writing this review was more enjoyable. The director obviously has a creative mind, and some technical ability, but he has utterly failed to combine them in production.Just. Don't. Bother.

This movie establishes David Cronenberg's son, Brandon Cronenberg, as a filmmaker to be on the lookout for, and one who (unsurprisingly) tackles similar subject matter as well. In this film, Caleb Landry Jones (X-MEN: FIRST CLASS) plays an employee of a clinic which sells viruses that have been in celebrities. This idea, which takes the commodification of celebrity to the extreme, is what's at the heart of the movie. The concept is fully explored, and doesn't pull any punches when it comes to showing the graphic implications of its premise. The only faults I find with it is that the social commentary tends to be rather on the head, and that the tone of the movie could have been a little more visceral. Still, it's a worthy feature debut and highly recommended for fans of "body horror."

Syd March is a scientist whose job is to sell viruses taken from sick celebrities to sell to obsessed fans. He lives in a society of the future where the famous faces of celebrities are everything, all the time. It is also a disturbing world; Syd is disgusted to see cells taken from celebrities grown into human body parts and sold for eating. One day he is injected with a highly dangerous virus from the most famous celebrity, Hannah Geist, who has mysteriously died. Unknown to him he is suddenly very valuable amongst the Black Market system. This movie has elements of celebrity obsession gone too far and the disregard for human life. Syd is just another face in the crowd until he has Hannah's virus. The movie was filmed in the steel city of Ontario, Hamilton. It's a very shocking movie, at times a little hard to believe, but the acting was great and the cast members were a great choice. Syd also gets to meet Hannah, and sees that despite her fame she is trapped within it and very unhappy with her life. For an independent film is was very well-made. It's really worth watching.

Edward Porris reports to a clinic to get infected with the same disease that celebrity Hannah Geist has. Syd is his handler and the protagonist of the film. He reassures people to keep going with their stated choices.Syd is also a part of the celebrity meat market. Cells from celebrities are used to reproduce (in relatively large quantities) muscle tissue that is sold as steaks and the like. Arvid is his contact in the meat sales.Syd gets a new sample from Hannah Geist, and gives it to himself. He's knocked out for a while. When he wakes up, Hannah is dead, and Syd was one of the last people to see her alive. Arvid would like Syd to give him a sample of this, since Arvid could make a huge profit on it. Syd claims not to have any knowledge of what killed her.Everyone is up in arms about Hannah's passing, especially at the Lucas Clinic, the company where Syd works. Syd stays ill, and consults with Arvid, who takes him to Levine. Levine forcibly takes a sample of the Hannah Geist pathogens. Syd tries to escape, but he is way too weak. They dump him on the street later. Nice. Thugs from another group kidnap him. They take him to Dr. Abendroth, who has come from Germany to do an autopsy on Hannah. First, though, the doctor wishes to see what is happening with the living specimen, Syd.Doctor Abendroth tells him that the virus he has was designed to deflect diagnosis, but that he had gotten around the viruses protections. Hannah is still alive, but further along in the disease. They talk. Hannah's family has traced the disease back to Lucas Clinic, and hope that Syd will find out who at Lucas designed it. Syd has to retrace his steps, this time with an entirely different purpose.------Scores------Cinematography: 8/10 Bad in a few spots (jerky camera and the like), but mostly fine quality.Sound: 10/10 No problems.Acting: 8/10 Much better than I expected. Caleb Landry Jones and Malcolm McDowell were quite good.Screenplay: 8/10 Good story, well developed in the narration of deep corruption.