Videodrome (by Canadian director David Cronenberg) is an amazing film from the mid-eighties. It works because it's NOT franchised horror. The key to Videodrome's success and longevity as a piece of horror art is it's horror of a truy PERSONAL nature, specific to the intellectual whims and sexual interests of the video's propaganda merchant David Cronenberg. Videodrome proves that You The People are...
“Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.” David Cronenberg originally appeared on My[confined]Space on November 8, 2009.
I love how the trades bury nuggets of info. At the bottom of the piece I used to source info about Michael Fassbender's upcoming role in A Single Shot was a throwaway sentence that suggests David Cronenberg is still at work on The Talking Cure, a project we've heard almost nothing about in the two years since it was first 'announced'. Almost exactly two years ago, a few reports said that Cronenberg...
Patrick recently stumbled upon this . In addition to it being quite flattering towards us and our show, Ms. Wissot makes some very interesting and astute observations on sexual violence in film and theatre and the double-standard of depicting male violence toward women and vice versa (spoiler: refreshingly, she doesn't finger-wag or scold). She writes: "There just seems to be something in the...
I may have mentioned that I've been on tour and not been able to get to a computer recently. Or at least not enough to be able to read up on the news and report back. I am therefore writing this in the middle of half term with over three pages of notes regarding news stories that have come and gone over the last month and a half. I'm binning all updates on stories we've already reported on and just...
Is there a more terrifying sequence in the last 40 years of cinema than the climax of David Cronenberg's chiller, The Brood ? In it, Oliver Reed—that handsome rake who (according to Derek Armstrong ) once received 36 stitches in the face after one of his numerous bar fights—walks into a dormitory full of sleeping, monstrous, children to help another traumatized innocent escape her captors....
I just wrote a snarky little listicle for Vice:To be released by Criterion is the benchmark of excellence. Their 25-year-old catalog includes indispensable work from masters including Cocteau, Renoir, Maysles, Kubrick, Cronenberg, Godard, Kurosawa, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Sturges, and,...
Once again, I have a dilemma that's not really dilemma, and it's definitely not something that's earth-shattering or a huge deal, but it's something that always annoys people: what happens when you buy a book or a CD and only a few months later, you hear a new, updated version is out (or about to come out)? Do you suck things up and buy the thing again? Or do you stand your ground and say no? The best...
Paul Haggis, director of the film "Crash" (not to be confused with the David Cronenberg film of the same name), has left Scientology with an open letter published on ex-Scientologist Mark "Marty" Rathbun's blog (which has also supplied links to Scientology's reply ). One of Haggis' main complaints is the Church's homophobia. Was Haggis really in Scientology for three and a half...
Got home about 24 hours ago from the 3rd Annual Exhumed Films 24-Hour Marathon and I think I'm returning to "normal". This was my third year in attendance and I have to say that while this year's rundown came awfully close to besting the first outing, it fell short ever so slightly . Seriously, how do you beat GODZILLA VS THE COSMIC MONSTER, DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, PHANTASM, HELLRAISER,...
Though he's turned to 'subtler' fare for his past few films, Cronenberg is best remembered for all the wild ideas given flesh by his early work. Films like Scanners, Videodrome, Dead Ringers , and The Fly have all assumed their rightful positions in the hierarchy of dark cinema, but reach back further, and you'll find some even stranger productions. Shivers, Rabid and Crimes of the Future were all...
Long before it became every studio's fondest wish to remake just about every horror flick ever produced ... it was the 1980s. And back in my day, sonny, we got GOOD horror remakes, ones that used the original films as mere jumping-off points for something darker and more creative! I'm talking Carpenter's The Thing , Cronenberg's The Fly , and ... Chuck Russell's The Blob ? Absolutely. But while those...
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