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Antiviral

Year:

2012

Duration:

108 min

Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

IMDB rate:

5.6

Director:

Brandon Cronenberg

Awards:

4 wins & 12 nominations

Details

Country: Canada

Release Date: 2012-11-30

Filming Locations: Bel-Air Grill, 673 Barton Street East, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Cast

Actor

Character

Caleb Landry Jones

Antiviral

Sarah Gadon

Hannah Geist

Lisa Berry

Lucas Clinic Receptionist

Douglas Smith

Edward Porris

Nenna Abuwa

Aria Noble

Donna Goodhand

Woman in Waiting Room

Adam Bogen

Lucas Clinic Security Guard

Salvatore Antonio

Topp

Matt Watts

Mercer

Dawn Greenhalgh

Jane

Katie Bergin

Talk Show Host

Nicholas Campbell

Dorian

Lara Jean Chorostecki

Michelle

Reid Morgan

Derek Lessing

Elitsa Bako

Vera

Joe Pingue

Arvid

Dan Warry-Smith

Butcher

Tedd Dillon

Hotel Guard

Milton Barnes

Vole & Tesser Employee

Sheila McCarthy

Dev Harvey

Josh Holliday

Male Client

Mark Caven

Luc

Jennifer Mote

Levine's Receptionist

James Cade

Levine

Ian O'Brien

Tex

Lady Vezina

Famous Woman

Jackie English

Waitress

George Tchortov

Portland

Kim Ly

West

Malcolm McDowell

Dr. Abendroth

Raul Tome

Landlord

Wendy Crewson

Mira Tesser

Ben Mulroney

Male cLife Host

Tanya Kim

Female cLife Host

Vincent Thomas

Security Guard (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Almost half of the content of the film was shot during pre-production. This includes the vast amount of playback footage and the many stills needed to decorate the sets and to be used with props.

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Much of the blood draw scenes in the film were real.

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During production, Sarah Gadon and Caleb Landry Jones both decided not to meet or rehearse prior to the filming of the hotel room scene where Syd takes a sample of Hannah Geist's blood. They both felt it would help preserve the separation of the characters within the story.

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Goofs

Before Syd puts the virus into Edward Porris's lip, we see the plunger of the syringe has been pulled back a bit, as it would be had Syd filled it with the virus. However, in the close up of the needle piercing the skin, you can see the plunger is all the way down, so when it was stuck into Edward's lip there was nothing in it.

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When Syd injects himself, he taps on his arm, like one would do when they are trying to make a vein pop out. He doesn't inject into a vein, so tapping on his arm is pointless and does absolutely nothing.

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Quotes

Dorian: The human face is a powerful messenger. Our brains are attuned to its every nuance. The smallest shift in a musculature can translate itself into complex non-verbal information so subtle, and communicated so quickly, that we often don't even register it consciously. One could say that for human beings, face is a structure with a high information resolution.

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Lucas Clinic Receptionist: [on the phone] Yes. Yes. Wonderful, I'll transfer you to booking.

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Dorian: Anyone who is famous deserves to be famous. Celebrity is not an accomplishment. Not at all, it's more like a collaboration that we choose to take part in. Celebrities are not people, they're group hallucinations.

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