Taxpayer Funded Sex Slugs. After wrapping up September with Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (listen), debating the merits of The Strangers: Chapter 1 (listen) and celebrating 30 years of To Die For (listen), it’s time for a David Cronenberg milestone: 50 years since his genre feature film debut, Shivers (1975). In the film, Starliner Tower is an exclusive, isolated […]
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Lionsgate’s Vestron Video Collector’s Series is getting a Steelbook upgrade, at least when it comes to David Cronenberg‘s controversial feature debut, Shivers. Shivers becomes available on Steelbook® on March 5, 2024, exclusively at Walmart. In Shivers, “The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed […]
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Infectious disease has been a concern of humankind ever since we first began cooperating in large settlements, so it makes sense that this horrific fact of life has also become the basis for many of our scary stories. And while COVID and the Black Plague are scary enough on their own, some stories rely on […]
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Out of all the popular Universal monsters, werewolves may have appeared the most often in ‘90s children’s literature. There was something about these hirsute creatures of the night that appealed to young readers back then. Through adult eyes, werewolves are a duality of man and beast, day and night, and good and evil. For kids, […]
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Lynn Lowry achieved cult status early in her career, thanks to her work in the likes of George A. Romero’s The Crazies, David Cronenberg’s Shivers, and Paul Schrader’s Cat People. At the age of 75 and with over 100 acting credits under her belt, she’s still going stronger than ever. I recently caught up with […]
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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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