For many, Videodrome (1983) remains David Cronenberg’s signature film. It is not his most successful or necessarily even his best, but it does most thoroughly define the descriptor “Cronenbergian.” It is a distillation of many of the themes and motifs he would explore throughout his filmography. Along with The Fly (1986), it is perhaps his […]
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Long Live The New Flesh, Bitch! And just like that, we’re into February. After starting the new year with a redo of our episode on The Perfection, followed by AIDS metaphor Safe, del Toro’s Gothic Romance Crimson Peak and slasher remake House of Wax, Trace and I are settling into our birthday month with four weeks of ‘Weird Sex’ […]
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Few names carry as much weight in horror as Cronenberg. For nearly half a century, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has cemented his name in every decade with groundbreaking genre films — from Rabid to Videodrome to Crash to even last year’s Crimes of the Future. So much so that the word ‘Cronenbergian’ has emerged as […]
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Boone, Button-Face & Barker. After five weeks of discussing hilarious camp with Drop Dead Gorgeous, Nurse 3D, Female Trouble, Flesh for Frankenstein, and Sleepaway Camp, we went back to some more serious horror with a look at John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! last week. Now, we’re discussing the troubled production and queer allegory at the center of Clive […]
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David Cronenberg‘s Videodrome is the next horror classic to make the leap to 4K Ultra HD, with Arrow Video announcing this morning that the Limited Edition set arrives October 24! This is a UK release, but keep in mind that 4K discs are Region Free! Special Features include: Brand new 4K restorations from the original […]
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David Cronenberg‘s new body horror movie Crimes of the Future is now available at home via Digital, but what about a physical media release? It’s coming to Blu-ray this summer! Distribution Solutions, a division of Alliance Entertainment, announces the release of NEON and DECAL’s Crimes of the Future, coming to Blu-ray™ and DVD August 9, […]
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Surprise, David Cronenberg‘s new movie Crimes of the Future has just hit Digital outlets this morning, offered as a Premium VOD option to rent for $19.99 or buy for $24.99. Crimes of the Future was released exclusively in theaters on June 3, thus far making $3.1 million worldwide. You can watch the film at home […]
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“Surgery is the new sex.” Kristen Stewart’s Timlin whispers this into the ear of Viggo Mortensen’s Saul Tenser after witnessing his surgical performance art in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future. It’s an epiphany for the aroused Timlin. For writer/director Cronenberg, it feels more like an organic evolution, a new appendage sprouted from his fleshy, pulsing, existential body […]
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The Canadian-born writer, director, and actor, David Cronenberg helped usher in the body horror subgenre as a major innovator. He’s long revulsed audiences with his visceral psychological and bodily transformation horror brand. Cronenberg’s untraditional, personal filmmaking translating on screen as some of horror’s most uncomfortable, surreal journeys sets him apart. While he long ago departed from […]
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It’s another big week for original horror, with a whopping SIX brand new horror movies releasing this Friday alone. At the front of the pack, David Cronenberg‘s body-horror return! Along with Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, we’re getting new horror from Chloe Okuno (V/H/S/94), Rob Savage (Host), and Marcus Dunstan & Patrick Melton (The Collector). […]
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Filmmaker David Cronenberg established a signature style of body horror very early in his career, thanks to a pair of films that changed the face of genre cinema. Cronenberg continued to carve out new terrain in horror, grotesquely morphing and mutilating the physical human body to examine human nature and society with a calculating intellect. When the […]
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If you can’t wait to see David Cronenberg‘s new movie Crimes of the Future, coming to theaters in NY & LA on June 3 before expanding wide on June 10, you’ll be happy to know that today brings some new marketing materials to whet your appetite even further. NEON has shared two official first-look clips from […]
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As you may recall, it was announced way back in 2017 that David Cronenberg‘s novel Consumed was becoming a series at AMC, but alas, that project never came to be. As it turns out, Cronenberg’s Consumed subsequently found its way over to Netflix as a potential series for the streaming service, but that project has […]
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We will head back inside the twisted mind of David Cronenberg with new movie Crimes of the Future, coming to theaters in NY & LA on June 3 before expanding wide on June 10. While you wait, NEON has debuted the official poster art today. Find it below. In the film, “As the human species adapts […]
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With Crimes of the Future coming to theaters this summer, David Cronenberg has already set up his next project, officially announced over on Variety this morning. It’s titled The Shrouds, and Vincent Cassel (Irreversible, Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises) is on board to star! The film “centers on Karsh (Vincent Cassel), an innovative businessman and grieving widower, […]
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