Brandon Cronenberg’s POSSESSOR is one of the year’s best genre films. If you can handle its face-melting violence, then you are in for a visual and sonic treat. It’s a visceral and unflinching assault on the senses that centers around Tanya Vos, a skilled corporate assassin. Using highly classified technology, she enters the minds of unsuspecting victims, hijacking their brains and bodies to carry out brutal murders without getting blood on her hands. As untraceable as she is, her memory and mind begins to fuse with her hosts’. As her sanity unravels, the stage is set for a blistering and brutal showdown.

Both coldly futuristic and primally biological, Randy Ortiz’s incredible art for Brandon Cronenberg’s new feature POSSESSOR is a perfect representation of the film’s unique tone. It’s a brilliant balance of contradictions: empathetic while anti-human, focusing intently on the human body, but as the flawed machine it is.