A History of Violence
2005
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- Russ Fischer
- Crash (1996) If this was a "best of" list Crash would only be near the top, but for this reckoning there should never have been any doubt. Going back to the idea that the closer Cronenberg pushes towards an intersection of his imagination and our reality, the weirder things get, this is a deeply and wonderfully uncomfortable movie.
- eXistenZ (1999) Released not even a month after The Matrix hit the US, this heavily meta-textual and multi-layered video game narrative had no chance to make an impression.
- Naked Lunch (1991) The discomfort, paranoia and spiritual violence of a life spent opening up the deepest recesses of your consciousness to strangers is deeply embedded in Cronenberg's adaptation of several works by William S. Burroughs.
- Videodrome (1983) We don't want to think about media changing us, but Videodrome suggests that the effects of media consumption are incredibly powerful and wildly unpredictable as cable TV operator Max Renn discovers that a violently alluring pirate video broadcast is actually a control signal with the power to kill.
Oct 2, 2011 · David Cronenberg: Making a Monster. By Jennifer Saura. October 2, 2011. On Saturday afternoon, David Cronenberg sat down with New Yorker film critic David Denby at the SVA Theatre to talk...
Shivers, also known as The Parasite Murders and They Came from Within, and, for Canadian distribution in French, Frissons ( IPA: / friːˈsoʊn / free-SOHN; 'chills' or 'shivers'), is a 1975 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry, and Barbara Steele. Plot.
- DAL Productions
- Ivan Reitman
- CAD$179,000
The Fly is a 1986 American science fiction horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg. Produced by Brooksfilms and distributed by 20th Century Fox , the film stars Jeff Goldblum , Geena Davis , and John Getz .
- August 15, 1986
- Stuart Cornfeld
- “Dead Ringers” (1988) Jeremy Irons gives two of the finest cinematic performances in David Cronenberg’s disturbing psychological thriller, as a pair of identical-twin gynecologists who share lovers without telling the women in their lives.
- “The Fly” (1986) Cronenberg’s remake of the already exceptional 1958 monster movie “The Fly” keeps most of the plot intact but shifts the focus from a high-concept monster movie with a shocking final scene to a mournful allegory for dying slowly, painfully and without dignity from a terrible disease.
- “Videodrome” (1983) The Cronenbergiest of all Cronenberg films, “Videodrome” stars James Woods as an amoral TV executive who becomes obsessed with a pirated station that airs snuff films for entertainment.
- “The Dead Zone” (1983) Cronenberg’s adaptation of Stephen King’s best-selling novel, starring Christopher Walken as a teacher who develops the power to see the future but loses everything else in his life, is anything but a conventional horror thriller.
Jun 3, 2022 · David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen take us behind the (very strange) scenes of Crimes of the Future The 25 best monster movies of all time, ranked The 20 best scary movies streaming right...
Jan 21, 2021 · Film. David Cronenberg’s The Fly —Man, Monster, Madness. By. Tilt Staff. on. January 21, 2021. The very idea of what constitutes a legitimate movie monster is certainly open to interpretation. The flexibility of defining a monster on the big screen has no restrictions whatsoever and why should it?
