Thirty seconds after you’re born you have a past, and sixty seconds after that you begin to lie to yourself about it

Cronenberg unsubtly doing his best to unnerve the viewer and proving that “elevated horror” isn’t a new sub-genre within horror and even though it might be trending right now, it has actually been a driving theme in non-slashers since humans got their grubby little hands on moving-picture making devices. An early work of his, The Brood is an…

He takes the rebellion of his own body and seized control of it

Honestly would make for a good double feature with Dead Ringers, making me believe that Cronenberg has always been fascinated with how surgery is self-harm for some kind of relief for us. I’d consider this a lifelong ion project of his despite having not seen his original version of this, but I would’ve thought there would be more substance to this than there was if that was…