David Cronenberg directed The Fly, Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Crash and A History of Violence, and effectively defined body horror as a genre. The interest is consistently in what happens when the flesh stops cooperating, and he has moved into literary adaptation without abandoning it.
David CronenbergEastern Promises (2007) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cronenberg on the Russian mafia in London, where the body is the filing system and the tattoos are the documents. The bathhouse fight works because nobody in it…
David CronenbergDavid Cronenberg's body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly. The Fly is David Cronenberg's 1986 American body-horror film, a substantial remake of the 1958 Kurt Neumann original, depicting a scientist whose teleportation experiment…
David CronenbergeXistenZ is Cronenberg doing what Cronenberg does: making the body the site of horror and the technology that interfaces with it the vector of corruption. The bio-ports, the organic game consoles connecting directly to the spine, the game-meat assembled from…
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