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NC-17 ‘Infinity Pool’ at Sundance shocks with orgies, executions, money shot

The Sundance Film Festival’s depraved talker this year is “Infinity Pool” by director Brandon Cronenberg.&💫nbsp;

Although reports from Sunday night’s premiere screening — approprಌiately in ♒the midnight program — said , there were ample bodily fluids.

ꦫIn one scene, Alexander Skarsgård’s character ejaculates, with his member in full view of the camera. (This is likely a special effect.) 

Another key🦄 part of the plot is a slew of slayings — in the form of bloody executions. Doubling down on the gore, the film’s tagline is “Only through blood can you release your past♍.”

And there a🐠re demented, hallucinogenic, graphic orgies.

The film by Cronenberg, son of “Crimes of the Future” director David Cronenberg, is set at a forei🃏gn resort where if a guest wanders off the heavily protected grounds, they will discover hedonism and untold violence — mostly perpetrated by other internati🐷onal visitors.

Collider’s review called it “ ‘”

Thos🐷e checking in include Skarsgård and actress Mia Goth from “Pearl.”

"Infinity Pool," directed by Brandon Cronenberg, features orgies and executions.
“Infinity Pool,” directed by Brandon Cronenberg, features orgies and executions. Courtesy of the Sundance Institute

The fictional Eastern European-looking country has a zero-tole🗹rance policy for crime, and the penalty is death. But, adding a science-fiction element, well-heeled tourists can be cloned and watch their double be executeꦦd instead.

When asked at a post-screening Q&A what the most memo🥂rable part about filming the messed-up movie was, Skarsgård, 46, replied, “Fighting a naked version of myself to the death and then being breastfed by Mia … that’s not something you get to do very often as an actor.”

That’s not quite “CODA,” the Sundance heart-warmer that won the Best Picture Oscar last year.

Alexander Skarsgård fights naked with his clone.
Alexander Skarsgård fights naked with his clone. Getty Images,

But the film follows suit with the other work of Cronenberg, 43, such as 2012’s “Antiviral,” about a clinic thไat allows average customers to have celebrities’ viruses injected into them to feel more connected to the stars.

The version♏ of “Infinity Pool” shown at freewheeling Sundan💞ce Sunday night is rated NC-17, but when Cronenberg’s film is released nationwide on Jan. 27 it will be a tamer R.