Shivers
All this business with Dominic Cummings has got me thinking about David Cronenberg’s Shivers. Movies about viruses were spreading in the early ’70s (George A. Romero’s The Crazies and Robert […]
Tag Archives: David Cronenberg
Video Nasty 37: Tenebrae
Before Misery and In the Mouth of Madness, Dario Argento explored the idea of horror novels causing real violence in 1982’s Tenebrae; the story of an American novelist (Anthony Franciosa) […]
Junior
From the producer of David Cronenberg… it’s Junior! After the success of Ivan Reitman’s Twins (a title he bought from Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers project), he heard the world clamouring for […]
Jason X
Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) goes to space in the 10th Friday the 13th movie, which they should have called Jason and the Astronauts. Sending your characters into space is a […]
FrightFest 20: Rabid (2019)
Today we go from rabbits to Rabid with the Soska Sisters’ remake of David Cronenberg’s classic armpit horror. “Why do we keep remaking old trends?” asks the self-referential opening line, […]
In the Mouth of Madness
Sam Neill investigates the disappearance of a popular horror novelist whose books are making people go crazy, in the third part of John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, not to be confused […]
Border
This Swedish fantasy follows a customs officer (Eva Melander) whose Neanderthalic features make her an expert at sniffing out contraband but equally a social outcast, hence the title. Imagine Bright […]
Auto Focus
Auto Focus is a Paul Schrader movie about Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane, not to be confused with Batman creator Bob Kane. Or based on his sexual appetite, Bill Finger. […]
Revenge
It’s quickly becoming a tradition at the Toronto International Film Festival for their “Midnight Madness” screenings to live up to the name by showing a French feminist horror movie that […]
Rabid
It never ceases to amuse me that comedy mogul Ivan Reitman produced a couple of David Cronenberg’s most shocking pictures, which seems incongruous until one remembers the messed-up body horror of […]
