10 Recent Horror Movies That Broke All The Rules
8. Infinity Pool (2023)
Rule Break: Who needs morality… when you’ve got cloning, cults, and total ego death?
At first glance, this looks like another rich-tourists-go-wrong horror story - think The White Lotus with a body count - but Brandon Cronenberg isn’t interested in satire so much as full-on psychological annihilation. Infinity Pool follows a struggling writer (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wife on holiday at a mysterious resort, where the local justice system lets you clone yourself... and watch your double be executed for your crimes.
That’s just the start of the nightmare.
As the days (and identities) blur, the film devolves into a sun-soaked freakout of sex, violence, ego death, and straight-up psychedelic madness. Skarsgård is brilliantly broken, but it’s Mia Goth who steals the film with a performance so gleefully deranged it practically melts off the screen.
What makes this a rule-breaker isn’t just the premise, it’s the tone. There are no clear morals, no sympathetic arcs, and no lesson at the end. Just beautiful people doing horrible things while questioning if they’re even real anymore. It’s disgusting, hypnotic, and completely its own beast.
The unrated cut? Even better.