HOSTS:
Kurt
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Tremble is a horror podcast that cuts through hype to figure out what actually works, whether a movie is trying to scare you, make you laugh, or do both at once.
On this episode, the Tremble crew gets under the skin of Antiviral, the 2012 science fiction body horror film from Brandon Cronenberg. Set in a world where celebrity obsession has reached truly grotesque extremes, the film follows Syd March, an employee at a clinic that sells live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to their devoted fans. Syd secretly smuggles these illnesses out of the clinic for the black market, but after infecting himself with a virus connected to superstar Hannah Geist, he finds himself racing to uncover the truth behind her death before the infection kills him too. Kurt, Taylor, and Steve discuss Cronenberg’s unsettling feature debut, its deliberately sterile atmosphere, disturbing body horror, and deeply weird vision of celebrity culture. The conversation also digs into the film’s ideas about fandom, obsession, exploitation, and the increasingly uncomfortable relationship between consumers and the famous people they idolize. Just how far would someone go to feel closer to their favourite celebrity?
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