This weekend in Chicago, Brandon Cronenberg’s horrifying ANTIVIRAL won the Festival’s Gold Hugo prize in the After Dark Competition!

From the festival’s announcement:

This competitive program of scary movies from around the world takes audiences on a journey to the darkest corners of the human soul.

The Gold Hugo goes to ANTIVIRAL (Canada/USA), one of the more ambitious feature film debuts in recent memory. Writer-director Brandon Cronenberg’s ANTIVIRAL is a work obsessed with perversions of the flesh, in the areas of science and sexuality. The film is the work of a budding visionary–full of inventive and eff