Scorsese is all about that body horror life, since he's a very big fan of Shinya Tsukamoto as well.
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Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’ to 'create way more chaos and controversy' than Crash (1996)
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It rocks that both Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart turned into legit cool actors doing sicko movies with Cronenberg. I love them.
Walkouts sure, but fainting and panic-attacks? Maybe if they were watching an actual live performance or something.
The return of the king. Love Cronenberg.
Your loss, Crash is brilliant. Fucked up, yes, but brilliant.
Crash isn't perfect but it's very moody and gets under your skin. I'm not a fan of how Holly Hunter's character is just dropped.
David Cronenberg hasn't made a movie since Map to the Stars back in 2014, but his long awaited Crimes of the Future is premiering at Cannes this May and chaps, it sounds like we're eating:
That's not the famously bad Oscar-winning Crash, btw, that's Cronenberg's Crash, aka the best Cronenberg, aka the one where they get desperately, irresistibly aroused by car crashes and James Spader fucks Rosanna Arquette's gaping leg wound. And Crimes of the Future is going to outdo that?
EDIT - Adding the synopsis:
Whewww so hyped for this
Same reason I like Murakami novels. I love seeing characters get caught up in strangeness.
I can't wait for this. I remember the first time I watched Videodrome. Crazy experience. He's such an unique director.
I wouldn't say it's gratuitous or gory or anything, but it is incredibly weird.
Videodrome!
Nothing weird about new flesh in that I promise!
Or Shivers, it's not full of sex parasites that make group sex mass killings at all.
I'm lying to you
Dead Ringers, Dead Zone are your best bets and then you can move up to Existenz and then maybe Rabid... maybe
it's not that gratuitous. it's way less crazy than the way its described in the thread.
Nah it'll be something new
Cronenberg already did the best orgy is cinematic history in Shivers how can you top a bunch of parasite slugs, a mass of people, a whole lot of group sex and blood blood blood
Just wanted to bring more attention to his book, Consumed, which feels like a themed bridge between Videodrome and this movie. The book is a must-read for fans of his films and I don't want to say anything else about it because it's one of those things that's best to go in knowing as little as possible. If you trust him to take you on a good, gory, challenging cinematic journey through film, you can trust him to do the same with a book. Fantastic stuff!
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Oddly it's The Fly that gives me the most trouble, though I still love the film and have seen it many times. There are certain aspects of the transformation that make my skin crawl to this day.
Crash is brilliant.
Anyway I'm really looking forward to this, it will be great to see Cronenberg back in this wheelhouse.
Crash is brilliant.
Anyway I'm really looking forward to this, it will be great to see Cronenberg back in this wheelhouse.
I remember going to a double bill of Punch Drunk Love and Irreversible at my local indie and bailed on the latter as soon as a friend mentioned the rape/fire extinguisher. I still haven't seen it.
It was more or less a glorified student film, but Cronenberg was wise to take just the title from it because OH BOY would that story not fly today.
It seems like every year at Cannes since Crash there's a movie that's like this where there's massive walkouts. I doubt it's going to be as controversial as Crash.
When Crash won the Palme d'Or, Francis Ford Coppola didn't want to present Cronenberg with the award.
I'm very excited for this though.
When Crash won the Palme d'Or, Francis Ford Coppola didn't want to present Cronenberg with the award.
I'm very excited for this though.
Just read the plot synopsis and....hooboy that sure is a twist in the third act
Anytime a creator claims this it's usually underwhelming compared to how it is made to sound. The stuff that really is shocking and sticks with you is scenes that catch you off guard, and just is allowed to speak for itself. Cronenberg has more credibility here than most I guess but I'm still skeptical.
I get the awards crowds are probably a variety of people who are more prone to having delicate sensibilities or walking out or whatever, but I've seen a lot of these "made people faint at Cannes" movies and they're fairly tame.
I get the awards crowds are probably a variety of people who are more prone to having delicate sensibilities or walking out or whatever, but I've seen a lot of these "made people faint at Cannes" movies and they're fairly tame.
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Dead Ringers is probably a good flick to start with. Two top-tier performances from Jeremy Irons:
Dead Ringers (1988)
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the...letterboxd.com
It's a fictionalised version of this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_and_Cyril_Marcus
Appreciate the time everyone took to answer my question! I'm honestly really excited to watch Dead Ringers, Dead Zone, History of Violence, and The Fly after looking them up.
If The Fly isn't too squelchy for you graduate to Existenz which is mad underrated and if you're still grooving Videodrome is just incredible shit
If after all that you're like fuck it bring it on I want max Cronenberg fucked then you can go heavy by kicking it old school with Shivers and Rabid and Middle School with Crash
The Fly is his best movie IMO, it's a really rock solid thriller with great pacing and, indeed, thrills. Extremely watchable.
However it goes pretty heavy into grotesque body horror a couple of times in the back half. Still not as fully wild as some of his other stuff
Still totally worth it for Jeff Grossblum
This quote seems to exist in a world where Titane didn't win the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes.
I love Crash, theirs some fucked up shit in it but I always thought there were more implied stuff then any real visceral horror.
Cronenberg didn't claim anything. Would be pretty lame if it was him tooting his own horn, but it's not.
Ugh I'm so jealous of you right now. Add Scanners and The Brood if that all clicks with you.