1999 · sci-fi · thriller · horror
eXistenZ
Directed by David Cronenberg1h 37m1999
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Our read: eXistenZ (1999) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal sci-fi · thriller · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- surreal
- cold
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How eXistenZ feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want mind-bending VR horror where games and flesh merge disturbingly.”
Skip it tonight — Organic tech grotesquerie or reality puzzles will leave you frustrated.
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