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4 days ago · The Fly (1986)93%. #1. Critics Consensus: David Cronenberg combines his trademark affinity for gore and horror with strongly developed characters, making The Fly a surprisingly affecting tragedy. Synopsis: When scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) completes his teleportation device, he decides to test its abilities on himself.
- Crimes of the Future (1970) Having nothing in common with his 2022 film of the same name, the 1970 “Crimes of the Future” is best seen as an early artifact of Cronenberg’s obsessions with flesh and sex.
- M. Butterfly (1993) Based on David Henry Hwang’s play of the same name, Cronenberg’s story about a French diplomat’s 20-year affair with a Peking opera performer feels oddly too classy for the filmmaker who would just a few years later start “Crash,” his adaptation of J.G.
- Stereo (1969) Cronenberg’s feature debut is cleverly presented as an educational film about test subjects granted telepathy, who are encouraged to test their limits sexually among their peers.
- Maps to the Stars (2014) Cronenberg’s mad-as-hell Hollywood satire “Maps to the Stars” is a bit of a bumpy ride, as Bruce Wagner’s script takes a few too many obvious swings at Tinseltown, railing against nepotism, Scientology, sequels and bad behavior of the rich and famous.
Jul 19, 2022 · Though his movies have always worn their themes on their sleeve, Cronenberg’s moralizing is far more effective when he subtly incorporates it to his unique, warped universe and not vice versa. 19. Stereo (1969) Even as an unproven, 26-year-old aspiring director, David Cronenberg never flinched from ambition.
- The Dead Zone
- Shivers
- Scanners
- Eastern Promises
- The Brood
- Dead Ringers
- Videodrome
- Naked Lunch
- A History of Violence
- The Fly
After spending half the ‘70s directing for Canadian television, Cronenberg made his early low-budget horror classics, Shivers and Rabid. By 1983, we had already seen such early Stephen King adaptations as Brian DePalma’s Carrie and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Mega-producer Dino De Laurentiis tapped Cronenberg to direct what, on paper, seems like...
Shivers — also released under the delightfully campy title They Came From Within — was produced by the director's longtime friend and fellow Canadian, Ghostbustersdirector, Ivan Reitman. A twisted, amoral doctor (a trope Cronenberg will keep revisiting) creates a disgusting parasite, which spreads through a luxury Montreal highrise. The infected be...
Famous for its exploding heads, Scanners inspired a cult following almost as soon as it was released in 1981. Scanners is less a horror film than a gore-laden sci-fi/paranoid thriller and featured some of Cronenberg’s favorite tropes and themes pumped to queasy life via a relatively large budget. The private security company ConSec recruits the men...
Remembered today for a brutal, naked fight scene in a London bathhouse, Eastern Promisesis one of Cronenberg’s biggest swerves away from his body-horror origins. Written by Peaky Blinders and Taboo contributor Steven Knight, the filmdelves into the London underworld as midwife Anna (Naomi Watts), searches for the family of a baby whose mother died ...
Written by Cronenberg in the aftermath of his acrimonious divorce, The Brood hones in on the physical effects of trauma and the existential terror that can come with being a parent. The film also finds Cronenberg developing two themes he would further develop in films like Naked Lunch and Dead Ringers: megalomaniacal doctors and the ways the mind c...
Inspired by the true story of identical twin New York City gynecologists who were found dead together in their suave Manhattan apartment, Dead Ringers marked Cronenberg’s first shift out of the core horror genre and into complex psychological thriller territory. Starring Jeremy Irons as Beverly and Elliot Mantle, Dead Ringers has lost none of its h...
Released in the same year as The Dead Zone, Videodrome is so different from Cronenberg’s Stephen King adaptation, itmight as well have been beamed in from another planet. When small-time cable TV programmer, Max Renn (James Woods), discovers an underground signal called Videodrome, the sadomasochistic, snuff-like content excites him. He discovers t...
Drug addict and pest exterminator William Lee (Peter Weller) develops an addiction to his pest-control bug powder and hallucinates a talking typewriter-insect hybrid creature that gives him orders. The hallucinatory narrative leads Lee to the creepy Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider, playing the apex of Cronenberg’s evil medical professionals), large green ...
Cronenberg returns to his version of small-town America with A History of Violence. Diner owner, Tom Stall (Mortensen), has his entire life upended after he dispatches two sadistic criminals with shocking ease. News of the event makes Tom something of a celebrity and attracts the scary Irish gangster Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris), who claims Tom is actu...
A brilliant and eccentric scientist named Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) meets journalist Ronnie Quaife (Geena Davis). As the two fall in love, Brundle cracks his revolutionary teleportation project, successfully transporting himself from one “telepod” to another. Unfortunately, a fly transports along with him. The computer fuses Brundle and the fly ...
Jun 3, 2022 · Here is every movie by David Cronenberg, ranked: 22. Crimes of the Future (1970) Filled with foot-worshipping scientists and other oddball male survivors of a woman-eradicating, cosmetic-induced ...
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Jun 4, 2022 · Here’s the ranking of David Cronenberg’s films, from worst to best. 20. M. Butterfly. Adapted from a 1980s play by David Henry Hwang, which was based on a true story and loosely inspired by the Chinese legend of the Butterfly Lovers, M. Butterfly is an unusual deviation from Cronenberg’s typical themes.
Mar 31, 2017 · “Cronenberg is better than all the rest of us combined.” – John Carpenter. Originally dismissed as an audacious genre director of challenging and stomach-turning horror schlock and subversion, David Cronenberg’s career has spanned some fifty odd years wherein he’s moved from the status of pariah to internationally acclaimed master
