A beach holiday curdles into something far stranger in Infinity Pool, Brandon Cronenberg's 2023 genre mash-up of horror, mystery and science fiction set on a resort island with its own private rules.
What is Infinity Pool about?
James and Em Foster arrive at the fictional island of La Tolqa expecting an all-inclusive escape. A fatal accident during a day trip pulls them out of the resort compound and into contact with a group of wealthy foreign guests who treat the island's laws as optional. What follows is less a vacation than an initiation: the couple is drawn deeper into a subculture built on hedonism, staged consequence and violence dressed up as ritual. The film keeps its focus tight on how quickly a stranger's hospitality can curdle into control, and how easily comfort turns into complicity once the rules of home no longer apply.
About the cast
Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth lead the ensemble as the visiting couple and the local fixer who pulls them off the resort grounds, with Cleopatra Coleman, Thomas Kretschmann and Amanda Brugel filling out the circle of guests. The cast plays the material with a controlled, unsettled register that suits the film's tonal swing between satire and dread.
Context & significance
Infinity Pool is a co-production spanning Canada, Croatia, France, Hungary and the United States, released in 2023 and running 117 minutes. It sits across four genre tags — horror, mystery, sci-fi and thriller — reflecting a story that treats resort tourism as the setup for a psychological and bodily horror premise rather than a straightforward slasher or ghost story. Director Brandon Cronenberg builds the island's economy of privilege and punishment slowly, letting the mystery of what La Tolqa actually permits unfold alongside the couple's unraveling.
Watching Infinity Pool on Ktime
Infinity Pool streams on K-Time with a free account login — no separate purchase needed to read this page or browse the catalogue. The film is available with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably in a fully Farsi viewing experience for the diaspora audience K-Time is built around.