By 2013, it had been nearly 15 years since genre icon David Cronenberg left behind his body-horror roots in favor of more mature — albeit still dark and horrific — dramas. While the elder Cronenberg was directing Oscar-nominated films like Eastern Promises and A History of Violence, a new Cronenberg generation was emerging to take on the mantle of disturbing audiences with the grotesquerie of the human body. Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg’s debut feature would mark him as the heir apparent to his father’s legacy.
