eXistenZ

1999
15
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

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Body Horror Cyber Thriller Horror Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

110K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,154

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Awards
- 3 wins & 14 nominations total

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Trivia
Jennifer Jason Leigh had already finished shooting her role in Eyes Wide Shut (1999) when she took on this role. When her scenes in that movie required re-shooting, the schedule required for it interfered with this one. Leigh chose to stay on this movie, and her role in Eyes Wide Shut (1999) was re-cast.

Goofs
The first time we see Ted Pikul at the trout farm, he labels an envelope with the letters LA. The L is clearly connected to the A. However in the next shot with the envelope on the conveyor belt the L and A are no longer connected.

Quotes
[last lines]
Chinese Waiter: Hey, tell me the truth... are we still in the game?

Alternate versions
Canadian distributor Alliance Atlantis removed some graphic violence from the Ontario release of the film in a failed attempt to lower the Restricted rating to Adult Accompaniment.

Connections
Edited into The History of the Hands (2016)

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Featured review

7/10

Mind Craft...

Wouldn't it be great, if you could really recreate, a world inside a simulation, to release imagination, everything feels like it should, you just need to have a plug, connected into your back socket, a human docking kind of pocket, then enact against your friends, a myriad of worlds to blend, conjure up crazy locations, solving puzzles and creations, couldn't tell which world you're on, reproduction or the one, perhaps you're visiting there now, but haven't worked out why or how.

An innovative and perpetually relevant story of how we'll all be hoodwinked in the end. Let's just hope we have the chance to pause or cancel while we still can.