Videodrome is one of my favourite David Cronenberg movies. This cult classic continues the ‘body horror’ themes from his earlier works (Shivers, Rabid), with a bigger budget and better actors. James Woods gives a high octane performance in the lead, and there is a memorable supporting turn from Blondie’s Debbie Harry too. There’s also a…
Shivers
Shivers was the first David Cronenberg movie to put him on the map as the master of ‘body horror’. It has a lot of his tropes in place – a chilly Canadian setting, weirdly named mysterious doctors, and a fair selection of truly gross-out moments (see his later Rabid, Scanners etc). The movie was also…
The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone is my favourite of David’ Cronenberg’s movies. At university, I once wrote a dissertation on Cronenberg’s earlier ‘body horror’ movies – including Shivers, Rabid and Scanners. These were all typically set in a Canadian winter and are fundamentally very cold, dour and disturbing movies, with little known casts. They had a pretence…