Infinity Pool(2023)
2023 · Brandon Cronenberg · 118 min
While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi, they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror. A tragic accident leaves them facing a zero tolerance policy for crime: either you'll be executed, or, if you’re rich enough to afford it, you can watch yourself die instead.
Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller
6.01.1k votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How Infinity Pool scares
Infinity Pool works on you like a slow spiral into something rotten, not through jump scares but through mounting unease and disorienting, drug-like imagery. The fear here is less about being chased and more about watching people lose their sense of self and morality piece by piece, which sits heavy in your head rather than your gut. It mixes sun-soaked vacation beauty with sudden ugly violence and strange sexual excess, so the tone keeps lurching between seductive and repulsive. This is for viewers who want to feel unsettled and a little sick afterward, not for anyone looking for a fun scare.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Infinity Pool rates psychological 5/5, visceral 3/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 15 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 75 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 90 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
Starts as a lazy vacation drift, then a jolt kicks off a steadily escalating slide into disorienting, hallucinatory intensity that peaks hard before a slightly quieter, unsettling close.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3.
How scary is Infinity Pool?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Infinity Pool rates 4/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. The fear is mostly in your head — it unsettles far more than it assaults. Expect it to be moderately gory and genuinely disturbing. Expect it to stay with you for days.
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