eXistenZ (1999) movie poster

eXistenZ (1999)

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👍 79%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 74%
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Director
David Cronenberg
Runtime
1h 37m
Country
Canada, United Kingdom, France
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.8/10 (2,131 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
77%
Metacritic
70

Cast

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Allegra Geller · 69% avg
Jude Law as Ted Pikul · 69% avg
Ian Holm as Kiri Vinokur · 76% avg
Willem Dafoe as Gas · 71% avg
Don McKellar as Yevgeny Nourish · 72% avg
Callum Keith Rennie as Hugo Carlaw · 71% avg
Christopher Eccleston as Seminar Leader · 75% avg
Sarah Polley as Merle · 72% avg

Is eXistenZ good?

Most people think so. 79% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 74%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#686 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#58 / 103 · 1999
Rank among its director's films
#10 / 18 · David Cronenberg
On ThumbScore's lists
Best Free Sci-Fi Movies on Plex (#25)

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

r/scifi
⬆ 717💬 147 comments
eXistenZ - 1999
A sci-fi horror take on virtual reality game with a good selection of some well known actors and actresses. I enjoyed the concept of the umbilical... Read on Reddit →
Top comment: "Nobody does body horror and body weirdness like Cronenberg."
r/movies
⬆ 657💬 168 comments
Before Inception there was eXistenZ. Here's an infographic
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Top comment: "The irony is that eXistenZ, which presents its alternate realities as a video game, is full of..."
r/horror
⬆ 462💬 83 comments
So this horror week, I’ve watched Aliens (1986) Splinter (2008) EXistenZ (1999) The Brood (1979), NOES 3: Dream Warriors (1987), and now I’m watching The Fog (1980). I am on an absolute roll.
Out of the five I saw I rank 1. The Brood 2. Aliens 3. Dream Warriors 4. EXistenZ 5. Splinter Spoiler alert! The Brood is number 1, because the... Read on Reddit →
Top comment: "The Brood is incredibly. And the Fog is too. 😁"
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