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Jul 14, 2024 · 10 ‘Dead Ringers’ (1988) Starring Jeremy Irons and Stephen Lack. Image via 20th Century Fox. Dead Ringers is one of the most disturbing Cronenberg films because it explicitly details the...
4 days ago · David Cronenberg’s classic films, ‘Scanners’, ‘The Brood’, ‘Dead Ringers’, and the Oscar-winning ‘The Fly’, are all cemented in history as some of the most irreverent editions to the body- and psycho-horror subgenre of all time. The horror genre wouldn’t be the same without his gory, daring imagery and ongoing analysis of ...
6 days ago · Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal of snuff films.
Jul 5, 2024 · The Fly, Eastern Promises, and Videodrome are among the best, most rewatchable movies from Canadian genre auteur David Cronenberg.
Jul 3, 2024 · Exploring deep-rooted fears of the human body and sexuality is a common theme in David Cronenberg’s work, and Shivers was the first of his signature “body horror” films. After combining an aphrodisiac and venereal disease to create a parasitic creature, Dr. Emil Hobbes unleashes his bloodthirsty creation on society.
Jul 19, 2024 · If there’s an overarching thesis in David Cronenberg’s filmography, encompassing everything from The Brood’s sentient feminine rage-tumors to Robert Pattinson’s asymmetrical prostate in Cosmopolis, it’s the notion that the body is reality. Past, present, and future are inscribed upon the body in symbiosis with its environment.
Jul 9, 2024 · Cinematic body horror didn’t originate with David Cronenberg’s adaptation of George Langelaan’s short story, The Fly (1986). But why does it feel like that’s the case? The experience of Cronenberg’s most well-known film is unshakably visceral, in its symphonic mutation of melodrama and the Hollywood monster movie.
