David Cronenberg
Date of Birth: 15 Mar 1943
Country: Canada
Biography: David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work... (Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 25 (Actor), 33 (Director), 27 (Writer)
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The immediate subject matter of Crash is the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger. Most motorists will slow down to stare at the scene of a collision; they may feel their pulses quickening and become exquisitely aware of the fragility of their own bodies. The characters of Crash carry this awareness a step further, cherishing and nurturing it. For them, a car collision is a sexual turn-on, and a jolting life-force they come to crave. (Fine Line Features)
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The chilling story of identical twin gynecologists, suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, bipolar sides of one personality, who share the same practice, the same apartment, the same women. When a new patient, glamorous actress Claire Niveau, challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs, and madness. Jeremy Irons' tour-de-force performance (as both twins) raises disturbing questions about the nature of personal identity. (Criterion Collection)
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Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. As they begin, she is attacked by a fanatic assassin employing a bizarre organic gun. She flees with a young marketing trainee, Ted Pikul, who is suddenly assigned as her bodyguard. Unfortunately, her pod, an organic gaming device that contains the only copy of the eXistenZ game program, is damaged... (imdb)
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A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong. (imdb)
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A lowly cable TV operator begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station. (imdb)
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After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa. (imdb)
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A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him. (imdb)
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A husband tries to uncover a shady psychiatrist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation. (imdb)
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The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites which turn them into mindless, sex-crazed, fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact. (imdb)
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A young woman develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood-thirsty, zombies whom proceed to infect others which turns into a city-wide epidemic. (imdb)
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Standard good guys vs. bad guys drag racing movie. Nice scene of the driver's view during a funny car run.. (imdb)
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Somewhere in the future, the Canadian Academy for Erotic Inquiry is investigating the theories of para-psychologist Luther Stringfellow. Seven young adults volunteer to submit to a form of brain surgery that removes their power of speech but increases their power for telepathic communications... (imdb)
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A journalist, intriguingly named Adrian Tripod, investigates the deaths of nearly all adult women on Earth. Tripod discovers the deaths may be caused by poisonous cosmetics manufactured by a corporation that's also involved in managing an international juvenile prostitution network. (imdb)
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From the Drain (1967) - Short Film
Two veterans of a mysterious war sit in a bathtub until one of them is strangled by a plant that grows out of the drain. (Salon)
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Camera (2000) - Short Film
While a veteran actor laments the state of film and film acting, a group of young children sneak a Panavision camera into the apartment where the actor resides and decide to make a film with it. (imdb)
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Good and evil scanners combatting when a crooked politician schemes to gain control of a major city. Scanners are people who, because their mothers had taken a certain drug during pregnancy, have acquired telepathic powers. One scanner escapes from a mental center and is hired by the politician to use his powers to gain control of others minds, and then, their actions (imdb)
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A new drug turns good "scanners" bad, and makes a woman into a telekinetic megalomaniac. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)
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Scanner Cop (1994) - Direct-to-Video
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to hunt the man responsible for the killings.
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Scanners: The Showdown (1995) - Direct-to-Video
A demonic 'scanner' terrorizes Los Angeles and the only person who can stop him may not have the neurons for the job. (imdb)
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Cosmopolis is a day in the life of Eric Packer, a 28-year-old New York stock market multi-millionaire, as he crosses Manhattan in his customized limousine to go for a haircut. His cross-town journey becomes an almost vertical voyage, with bizarre occurrences and an authentic parade of crazy characters along the way, in a landscape that depicts the modern soul of the West at the end of the millennium (mubi.com)
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The Nest (2014) - Short Film
Whenever a woman's left breast becomes filled with a nest of lethal wasps, it is up to Doctor Cronenberg to draw on her body. At a slim nine minutes, legendary director David Cronenberg proves he can boggle minds in less than ten minutes, leaving mankind's brain walloped to the back of its skull!
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Transfer (1966) - Short Film
David Cronenberg's first ever film. A psychiatrist finds his patient has followed him out in the wilderness.
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The Italian Machine (1976) - TV Series
A motorcycle enthusiast becomes obsessed with acquiring a rare classic model currently in the possession of a wealthy art collector. (imdb)
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At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World is a short film by David Cronenberg and part of the To Each Their Own Cinema anthology film. (Letterboxd)
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A deep dive into the not-so-distant future in which humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings. This evolution moves humans beyond their natural state and into a metamorphosis, which alters their biological makeup. (imdb)
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Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.
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Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection (2023) - TV Movie
Cronenberg’s speculative historical work draws inspiration from the anatomical waxworks at the La Specola museum in Florence, Italy. These wax models, traditionally used for medical demonstrations, are given a new perspective in the film. Cronenberg’s work reveals the vibrant and surprising aspects of these female wax corpses, which were previously seen as static and serious.
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