Soon after the New Hollywood generation took over the entertainment industry, they started having children. And more than any filmmakers that came before—they were terrified. Rosemary’s Baby (1968), The Exorcist (1973), The Omen (1976), Eraserhead (1977), The Brood (1979), The Shining (1980), Possession (1981), and many others all deal, at least in part, with the fears of becoming or being a parent. What if my child turns out to be a monster? is corrupted by some evil force? or turns out to be the fucking Antichrist? What if I screw them up somehow, or can’t help them, or even go insane and try to kill them? Horror has always been at its best when exploring relatable fears through extreme circumstances. A prime example of this is Larry Cohen’s 1974 monster-baby movie It’s Alive, which explores the not only the rollercoaster of emotions that any parent experiences when confronted with the difficulties of raising a child,...
- 4/26/2024
- by Brian Keiper
- bloody-disgusting.com
Mike Hughes, Harvey Stevens, Alex Vincent, Paula E. Sheppard, Noah Wiseman, and Milly Shapiro
Screenshot: YouTube
There’s nothing scarier than childhood. Look no further than the movies (or your very own memory palace) for proof. With the upcoming release of Abigail and the recent child-adjacent scares from The First Omen and Imaginary,...
Screenshot: YouTube
There’s nothing scarier than childhood. Look no further than the movies (or your very own memory palace) for proof. With the upcoming release of Abigail and the recent child-adjacent scares from The First Omen and Imaginary,...
- 4/17/2024
- by Matt Schimkowitz, Saloni Gajjar, Tim Lowery, William Hughes, and Jen Lennon
- avclub.com
The exploration of horror through an overcrowded streaming market continues. Since each month brings a plethora of new additions to streaming libraries across all platforms, from Netflix to Tubi, that means an insane selection of all styles and types of horror available at our fingertips.
Max doesn’t just serve as the spot for Warner Bros. titles, but offers hubs to connect you to HBO, Cartoon Network, TCM, and curated selections to find even more pockets of horror.
New additions to Max’s horror library in April include Wes Craven Presents: They and Alex Garland’s Men on April 18. Also look for Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar to arrive on the streaming platform on April 6.
Here are the best Max horror movies you can stream right now.
Aliens
Whereas Ridley Scott’s Alien embraced quiet haunted house-like chills for his sci-fi movie, James Cameron took a drastic detour into action-horror territory for the epic-scaled sequel.
Max doesn’t just serve as the spot for Warner Bros. titles, but offers hubs to connect you to HBO, Cartoon Network, TCM, and curated selections to find even more pockets of horror.
New additions to Max’s horror library in April include Wes Craven Presents: They and Alex Garland’s Men on April 18. Also look for Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar to arrive on the streaming platform on April 6.
Here are the best Max horror movies you can stream right now.
Aliens
Whereas Ridley Scott’s Alien embraced quiet haunted house-like chills for his sci-fi movie, James Cameron took a drastic detour into action-horror territory for the epic-scaled sequel.
- 4/4/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
“You got involved with a woman who fell in love with you for your sanity and hoped it would rub off.”
What would the horror version of Kramer vs. Kramer look like? What about a murderous version of Marriage Story? While horror fans might enjoy throwing in gory dismemberment or supernatural chaos to these extremely human stories, would we be able to stomach the devastating mix of physical and emotional pain? Divorce is already hard enough! But that’s just what David Cronenberg gives us with The Brood. This 1979 film is a shocking and powerful story about the death of a marriage and the extensive collateral damage that lies in its wake.
Nola (Samantha Eggar) is a young mother taking time for herself. In order to process childhood trauma, she’s enrolled in extensive treatment at the Somafree Institure, a therapeutic retreat run by the illustrious Dr. Raglan (Oliver Reed). His patented modality,...
What would the horror version of Kramer vs. Kramer look like? What about a murderous version of Marriage Story? While horror fans might enjoy throwing in gory dismemberment or supernatural chaos to these extremely human stories, would we be able to stomach the devastating mix of physical and emotional pain? Divorce is already hard enough! But that’s just what David Cronenberg gives us with The Brood. This 1979 film is a shocking and powerful story about the death of a marriage and the extensive collateral damage that lies in its wake.
Nola (Samantha Eggar) is a young mother taking time for herself. In order to process childhood trauma, she’s enrolled in extensive treatment at the Somafree Institure, a therapeutic retreat run by the illustrious Dr. Raglan (Oliver Reed). His patented modality,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
Oscar Weekend is coming up, and everyone is wondering if Oppenheimer will sustain its Awards push. Or will Lily Gladstone will take the Best Actress statue from clear front-runner Emma Stone after her surprising SAG win? But there’s one thing that comes across my mind every Oscar weekend: which horror movie deserved to make the cut yet didn’t? I’ve chronicled in the past how much the Academy tends to look the other way regarding great horror performances. But what about the films themselves? After the Best Picture nomination pool was expanded to ten films, we’ve seen movies that otherwise wouldn’t, get a place amongst the year’s best. They wanted to recognize those films making a cultural impact.
And while that position has mostly been reserved for comic book movies and summer blockbusters, I think it’s well past time that we give horror its due.
And while that position has mostly been reserved for comic book movies and summer blockbusters, I think it’s well past time that we give horror its due.
- 3/4/2024
- by Tyler Nichols
- JoBlo.com
The exploration of horror through an overcrowded streaming market continues. Since each month brings a plethora of new additions to streaming libraries across all platforms, from Netflix to Tubi, that means an insane selection of all styles and types of horror available at our fingertips.
Max doesn’t just serve as the spot for Warner Bros. titles, but offers hubs to connect you to HBO, Cartoon Network, TCM, and curated selections to find even more pockets of horror.
For starters, Max’s horror selection offers a relatively robust selection of foundational horror titles and franchises, including Paranormal Activity and Friday the 13th.
Here are the best Max horror movies you can stream right now.
Aliens
Whereas Ridley Scott’s Alien embraced quiet haunted house-like chills for his sci-fi movie, James Cameron took a drastic detour into action-horror territory for the epic-scaled sequel. Poor Ellen Ripley is forced to return to Lv-426 along with space Marines,...
Max doesn’t just serve as the spot for Warner Bros. titles, but offers hubs to connect you to HBO, Cartoon Network, TCM, and curated selections to find even more pockets of horror.
For starters, Max’s horror selection offers a relatively robust selection of foundational horror titles and franchises, including Paranormal Activity and Friday the 13th.
Here are the best Max horror movies you can stream right now.
Aliens
Whereas Ridley Scott’s Alien embraced quiet haunted house-like chills for his sci-fi movie, James Cameron took a drastic detour into action-horror territory for the epic-scaled sequel. Poor Ellen Ripley is forced to return to Lv-426 along with space Marines,...
- 2/13/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The horror genre is one that frequently insists upon sequels and franchises, even when they’re woefully misguided endeavors. There are too many sequels that are set up to fail and seem financially driven and creatively bankrupt, whether it’s Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, The Rage: Carrie 2, or American Psycho II: All American Girl. However, it’s always electric when one of these sequels does something special, different, and audiences are left with a Psycho II or The Exorcist III scenario on their hands. The Fly II is a horror sequel that was largely written off the moment that it was announced, sans David Cronenberg, even if its existence makes sense. The Fly II isn’t superior to its predecessor, but it does excel in many areas that are absent in the original. It brings something new to the table and marks a unique voice in body...
- 2/9/2024
- by Daniel Kurland
- bloody-disgusting.com
For those eager to explore the unsettling world of body horror and psychological thrills, there’s no better guide than David Cronenberg. From grotesque metamorphoses to chilling narratives that blur the lines between technology and flesh, Cronenberg’s films hold a mirror up to our deepest fears and fascinations. In this exploration of the macabre and the mind-bending, we delve into the very best of his cinematic library.
This ranking taps into the core of Cronenberg’s genius, piecing together a countdown that encapsulates his most impactful works. Perfect for both novices and seasoned fans, this list is your gateway to understanding why Cronenberg’s contributions stand out in the horror realm. Whether you seek to plunge into his earlier shockers or savor his contemporary experiments, we’ve got you covered with the most thorough David Cronenberg horror movie ranking, for your eerie viewing pleasure.
Prepare to confront the uncanny...
This ranking taps into the core of Cronenberg’s genius, piecing together a countdown that encapsulates his most impactful works. Perfect for both novices and seasoned fans, this list is your gateway to understanding why Cronenberg’s contributions stand out in the horror realm. Whether you seek to plunge into his earlier shockers or savor his contemporary experiments, we’ve got you covered with the most thorough David Cronenberg horror movie ranking, for your eerie viewing pleasure.
Prepare to confront the uncanny...
- 1/4/2024
- by Jonathan Dehaan
JoBlo.com recently launched a new weekly documentary series called 80s Horror Memories, where each year of the 1980s has five episodes dedicated to it. Looking back at 1980, we discussed Maniac, Dressed to Kill, Alligator, Friday the 13th, The Shining, Prom Night, and The Fog. The second five episodes were a journey through 1981, covering The Funhouse, The Burning, Friday the 13th Part 2, My Bloody Valentine, Halloween II, The Evil Dead, The Howling, and An American Werewolf in London, as well as the careers of horror hosts Elvira and Joe Bob Briggs. The next five were, of course, all about movies that came out in 1982: Conan the Barbarian, The Thing, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, and Poltergeist, with an examination of the short-lived 3-D boom along the way. For 1983, we talked about a trio of Stephen King adaptations, Jaws 3-D, Sleepaway Camp, the rise of TV horror anthologies, and...
- 12/15/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
’90s Horror, Art-House Horror, and Pre-Code Horror
It’s October, which means you are likely crafting an endless queue of horror films to consume. When it comes to a single streaming service to dedicate your eyes to this month, The Criterion Channel takes the cake with three different series. First up, ’90s horror brings together such films as The Rapture (1991), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The Addiction (1995), and Ravenous (1999), while Art-House Horror features Häxan (1922), Vampyr (1932), Eyes Without a Face (1960), Carnival of Souls (1962), Onibaba (1964), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Sisters (1973), Eraserhead (1977), House (1977), Suspiria (1977), Arrebato (1979), The Brood (1979), The Vanishing (1988), Cronos (1993), Cure (1997), Donnie Darko (2001), Trouble Every Day (2001), Antichrist (2009), and more. Lastly, Pre-Code horrors brings together ’30s features such as Freaks (1932), Island of Lost Souls (1932), The Old Dark House...
’90s Horror, Art-House Horror, and Pre-Code Horror
It’s October, which means you are likely crafting an endless queue of horror films to consume. When it comes to a single streaming service to dedicate your eyes to this month, The Criterion Channel takes the cake with three different series. First up, ’90s horror brings together such films as The Rapture (1991), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The Addiction (1995), and Ravenous (1999), while Art-House Horror features Häxan (1922), Vampyr (1932), Eyes Without a Face (1960), Carnival of Souls (1962), Onibaba (1964), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Sisters (1973), Eraserhead (1977), House (1977), Suspiria (1977), Arrebato (1979), The Brood (1979), The Vanishing (1988), Cronos (1993), Cure (1997), Donnie Darko (2001), Trouble Every Day (2001), Antichrist (2009), and more. Lastly, Pre-Code horrors brings together ’30s features such as Freaks (1932), Island of Lost Souls (1932), The Old Dark House...
- 10/6/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The 1970s: A time when vinyl wasn’t just a hipster trend, lava lamps lit up rooms with their hypnotic glow, and horror movies? Well, they were in a league of their own, especially the underrated 70s horror movies that have remained hidden gems over the decades. This was a decade that redefined cinema, pushing boundaries and daring to venture into the dark, unexplored corners of the human psyche. While the big names like The Exorcist and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were making waves and scaring audiences worldwide, there was an undercurrent of films that, though lesser-known, packed just as much punch.
At Nightmare on Film Street, we’re all about digging up those hidden treasures, the unsung heroes of horror that might’ve slipped under the radar but deserve a standing ovation. So, pop on your platform shoes, slap on some groovy tunes, and join us as we...
At Nightmare on Film Street, we’re all about digging up those hidden treasures, the unsung heroes of horror that might’ve slipped under the radar but deserve a standing ovation. So, pop on your platform shoes, slap on some groovy tunes, and join us as we...
- 9/21/2023
- by Kimberley Elizabeth
In this time of geekery and craft reigning supreme, film critics and academics no longer reject horror movies with the knee-jerk certainty some once did. But even now the specter of “elevated horror” (see that concept’s lambasting in Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s “Scream 5”) looms over discussions of artier explorations of dread and terror — Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria,” Rose Glass’ “Saint Maud” — that are clearly distinguished from, well, non-elevated horror. The general gist is that these exceptions to the “horror is bad” rule engage your brain more than just showing brains: eaten by zombies or splattered against the wall.
How can films that fire your adrenal glands, send shivers down your spine, raise goosebumps, and quicken your breath — that inspire such an intense physical reaction — also be cerebral experiences? The answer is obvious enough. Viewers forget all the time that, as Anna Karina...
How can films that fire your adrenal glands, send shivers down your spine, raise goosebumps, and quicken your breath — that inspire such an intense physical reaction — also be cerebral experiences? The answer is obvious enough. Viewers forget all the time that, as Anna Karina...
- 8/10/2023
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
You know you are watching a David Cronenberg film within the first few minutes. His unique directorial vision and style are instantly recognizable. For over 50 years, Cronenberg has been pushing the boundaries of mainstream cinema with his unflinching explorations of the human body and psyche. His films delve into humanity’s deepest fears and darkest desires, all with his signature clinical precision and intellectual curiosity.
David Cronenberg Depostiphotos
Cronenberg emerged from the “Canuxploitation” era of Canadian B-movies in the 1970s to become one of the most influential auteurs in modern film. His early cult classics like Shivers and Scanners established his fascination with the physicality of human existence and all the ways our flesh and minds can mutate and transform. Cronenberg’s films are known for their disturbing body horror and surreal science fiction concepts, but at their core, they reveal fundamental truths about human nature and our relationship with our own physical being.
David Cronenberg Depostiphotos
Cronenberg emerged from the “Canuxploitation” era of Canadian B-movies in the 1970s to become one of the most influential auteurs in modern film. His early cult classics like Shivers and Scanners established his fascination with the physicality of human existence and all the ways our flesh and minds can mutate and transform. Cronenberg’s films are known for their disturbing body horror and surreal science fiction concepts, but at their core, they reveal fundamental truths about human nature and our relationship with our own physical being.
- 6/23/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
The Dead Ringers episode of Wtf Really Happened to This Horror Movie was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
“There’s nothing the matter with the instrument, it’s the body. The woman’s body is all wrong!”
We’ve discussed how vulnerable it can be to be under the bright lights of the dentist’s chair but how about the doctor, particularly a specialty doctor that’s job is to deal with our most private of parts. David Cronenberg is the master of turning our bodies into horrible things that seek to hurt us, perfecting the use of the term “body horror”. So, what happens when Cronenberg makes a movie about twin gynecologists that begin to lose their grip on reality, and did you know that this is actually based on true events?...
“There’s nothing the matter with the instrument, it’s the body. The woman’s body is all wrong!”
We’ve discussed how vulnerable it can be to be under the bright lights of the dentist’s chair but how about the doctor, particularly a specialty doctor that’s job is to deal with our most private of parts. David Cronenberg is the master of turning our bodies into horrible things that seek to hurt us, perfecting the use of the term “body horror”. So, what happens when Cronenberg makes a movie about twin gynecologists that begin to lose their grip on reality, and did you know that this is actually based on true events?...
- 5/26/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
It's astonishing to consider how quickly "Star Wars" rose to prominence in the pop culture consciousness. George Lucas, the director of the 1977 original, merely wanted to make a high-octane version of classical space opera stories like the ones seen in "Flash Gordon" serials of the 1940s. One could not have predicted the overwhelming response from young audiences, or their thirst for toys and tie-in products, a relative novelty at the time. Fast-forward to 1983, and there had already been one beloved sequel, a TV special, and more toys than the Earth's landfills knew what to do with. When the time came to make "Return of the Jedi," Lucas had become a mere executive producer and story writer, hoping to farm out the directing gig to ... well, to anyone who fit two certain criteria.
Many might know that several soon-to-be-prominent directors were approached to direct "Return of the Jedi." David Cronenberg had...
Many might know that several soon-to-be-prominent directors were approached to direct "Return of the Jedi." David Cronenberg had...
- 5/25/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Sandor Stern’s ‘Pin’ is an unsung ‘80s classic that tells a traumatic tale of a broken family that turns an unhealthy coping mechanism into a totem of terror.
“Have you heard from Leon?”
“No.”
“I miss him a great deal.”
“So do I.”
Horror’s “evil doll” sub-genre has never been more popular, but it’s been a lively area of terror for many decades now. There’s an instantly identifiable selling point to one of these stories where a mundane toy suddenly becomes a terrifying artifact. One of the more obscure entries in the evil doll sub-genre is 1988’s Pin, a disturbing tale of repressed pain, codependent family dynamics, and displaced identity that bears more in common with Psycho than Child’s Play. Pin, while refusing to limit itself to just one type of horror, delivers a memorable meditation on trauma that makes an even greater impact 35 years later.
“Have you heard from Leon?”
“No.”
“I miss him a great deal.”
“So do I.”
Horror’s “evil doll” sub-genre has never been more popular, but it’s been a lively area of terror for many decades now. There’s an instantly identifiable selling point to one of these stories where a mundane toy suddenly becomes a terrifying artifact. One of the more obscure entries in the evil doll sub-genre is 1988’s Pin, a disturbing tale of repressed pain, codependent family dynamics, and displaced identity that bears more in common with Psycho than Child’s Play. Pin, while refusing to limit itself to just one type of horror, delivers a memorable meditation on trauma that makes an even greater impact 35 years later.
- 5/16/2023
- by Daniel Kurland
- bloody-disgusting.com
This article contains spoilers for various sci-fi movies
“In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.” If you’re a geek reading Den of Geek, you probably recognize those words as the final ones between Dr. Manhattan and Adrian Veidt in Alan Moore and David Gibbons’s Watchmen. Manhattan’s statement comes as a warning to Veidt, who tried to save humanity from itself by manufacturing an alien invasion at the cost of nearly half of the world’s population. Viedt, of course, wants to know if it’s over, if he did truly save the world. But for Manhattan, who exists at all points on his timeline at once, the answer isn’t so simple. Nothing ends because nothing begins. It all simply is, at least from his perspective.
Get it? Yeah, me neither. But that’s part of the deal with sci-fi stories like Watchmen. Branching timelines,...
“In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.” If you’re a geek reading Den of Geek, you probably recognize those words as the final ones between Dr. Manhattan and Adrian Veidt in Alan Moore and David Gibbons’s Watchmen. Manhattan’s statement comes as a warning to Veidt, who tried to save humanity from itself by manufacturing an alien invasion at the cost of nearly half of the world’s population. Viedt, of course, wants to know if it’s over, if he did truly save the world. But for Manhattan, who exists at all points on his timeline at once, the answer isn’t so simple. Nothing ends because nothing begins. It all simply is, at least from his perspective.
Get it? Yeah, me neither. But that’s part of the deal with sci-fi stories like Watchmen. Branching timelines,...
- 5/15/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
Amazon’s six-episode limited series adaptation of David Cronenberg’s 1988 feature Dead Ringers isn’t a perfect series, but in at least three key ways it’s a perfect piece of intellectual property mining.
First, series creator Alice Birch (Normal People) has a clear reason for wanting to tackle Cronenberg’s twisted tale of identical twin gynecologists, using the added narrative real estate of television and the passing of 35 years as fodder for an examination of reproductive freedom and the fertility industry that’s entirely its own. It’s a spectacular thematic vehicle.
Of equal importance, Dead Ringers is a spectacular acting vehicle, and in Elliot and Beverly Mantle, Rachel Weisz has the best role, or dual roles, of her decorated career, a mixture of uncompromising intensity, bleak humor and extended heartbreak that’s as satisfying to watch as it clearly was to play.
And, finally, and this might be...
First, series creator Alice Birch (Normal People) has a clear reason for wanting to tackle Cronenberg’s twisted tale of identical twin gynecologists, using the added narrative real estate of television and the passing of 35 years as fodder for an examination of reproductive freedom and the fertility industry that’s entirely its own. It’s a spectacular thematic vehicle.
Of equal importance, Dead Ringers is a spectacular acting vehicle, and in Elliot and Beverly Mantle, Rachel Weisz has the best role, or dual roles, of her decorated career, a mixture of uncompromising intensity, bleak humor and extended heartbreak that’s as satisfying to watch as it clearly was to play.
And, finally, and this might be...
- 4/19/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
House of 1000 Corpses Figures from Neca
Neca is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses with a set of Little Big Head stylized figures. Otis Driftwood, Captain Spaulding, and Baby Firefly each measure between 5″ and 6″ tall and come packaged together in a window box. Due out in September, the set can be pre-ordered for $59.99.
David Cronenberg Print from Vanessa McKee
David Cronenberg celebrated his 80th birthday this week, and he’s still churning out provocative and though-provoking movies with no signs of slowing down. From The Brood to Crimes of the Future, Vanessa McKee pays tribute to his legacy with a gorgeous illustration. 9×12 prints come signed by the artist for...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
House of 1000 Corpses Figures from Neca
Neca is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses with a set of Little Big Head stylized figures. Otis Driftwood, Captain Spaulding, and Baby Firefly each measure between 5″ and 6″ tall and come packaged together in a window box. Due out in September, the set can be pre-ordered for $59.99.
David Cronenberg Print from Vanessa McKee
David Cronenberg celebrated his 80th birthday this week, and he’s still churning out provocative and though-provoking movies with no signs of slowing down. From The Brood to Crimes of the Future, Vanessa McKee pays tribute to his legacy with a gorgeous illustration. 9×12 prints come signed by the artist for...
- 3/17/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
To celebrate David Cronenberg's 80th birthday, check out his underrated adaptation of the controversial novel "Naked Lunch."
David Cronenberg, the undisputed king of cinematic body horror, turns 80 this month, and he shows no signs of slowing down. Last year, with the release of "Crimes of the Future," he heartily reminded audiences that there's no filmmaker greater than he when it comes to piercing dissections (often literally) of the human form's grotesqueries and its relationship with the wider world. He's so distinctive, so unflinching in his portrayal of that which horrifies us most, that we use the adjective Cronenbergian to describe works inspired by him. Every fan of Cronenberg has their favorite moments from his vast filmography, whether it's the exploding head in "Scanners," Jeff Goldblum's disintegration in "The Fly," or the abnormal births in "The Brood." One of his lesser-discussed films, and perhaps his most curious effort as a director,...
David Cronenberg, the undisputed king of cinematic body horror, turns 80 this month, and he shows no signs of slowing down. Last year, with the release of "Crimes of the Future," he heartily reminded audiences that there's no filmmaker greater than he when it comes to piercing dissections (often literally) of the human form's grotesqueries and its relationship with the wider world. He's so distinctive, so unflinching in his portrayal of that which horrifies us most, that we use the adjective Cronenbergian to describe works inspired by him. Every fan of Cronenberg has their favorite moments from his vast filmography, whether it's the exploding head in "Scanners," Jeff Goldblum's disintegration in "The Fly," or the abnormal births in "The Brood." One of his lesser-discussed films, and perhaps his most curious effort as a director,...
- 3/15/2023
- by Kayleigh Donaldson
- Slash Film
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Roxy Cinema
Coppola’s Dracula, The Ring, and The Love Witch all play on 35mm; Spanish Dracula plays with live guitar accompaniment from Gary Lucas on Saturday; Suspiria screens; “City Dudes” returns on Saturday.
Bam
The bold, brilliant, stomach-churning films of Shinya Tsukamoto screen in a new retrospective.
Anthology Film Archives
Shivers, Rabid, and The Brood all play on 35mm this weekend.
Museum of Modern Art
One of our greatest living filmmakers, Tsai Ming-liang, is subject of a career-spanning retrospective that contunes.
Museum of the Moving Image
See It Big: Extended Cuts! offers unique opportunity to see films in their original form, starting with Das Boot and Little Shop of Horrors; Nosferatu and Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations also screen.
Film Forum
Isabelle Huppert, maybe our greatest actress, is celebrated in a retrospective having its last weekend; Breathless continues,...
Roxy Cinema
Coppola’s Dracula, The Ring, and The Love Witch all play on 35mm; Spanish Dracula plays with live guitar accompaniment from Gary Lucas on Saturday; Suspiria screens; “City Dudes” returns on Saturday.
Bam
The bold, brilliant, stomach-churning films of Shinya Tsukamoto screen in a new retrospective.
Anthology Film Archives
Shivers, Rabid, and The Brood all play on 35mm this weekend.
Museum of Modern Art
One of our greatest living filmmakers, Tsai Ming-liang, is subject of a career-spanning retrospective that contunes.
Museum of the Moving Image
See It Big: Extended Cuts! offers unique opportunity to see films in their original form, starting with Das Boot and Little Shop of Horrors; Nosferatu and Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations also screen.
Film Forum
Isabelle Huppert, maybe our greatest actress, is celebrated in a retrospective having its last weekend; Breathless continues,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The body horror auteur returns to favourite themes, if not the peak of his powers, as Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart star in this playfully grisly tale of surgery as the new sex
David Cronenberg’s latest feature shares a title with an experimental film he made in 1970. In the wake of the original Crimes of the Future, Cronenberg would effectively invent, refine and then move on from “‘body horror” cinema, leaving a genre-defining canon of fantasy films that used the mutations of the flesh to discuss matters of life and death. Since 1988’s Dead Ringers, the Canadian auteur’s preoccupations have been more psychological (notwithstanding the mugwumps of Naked Lunch and the quirky genre return of eXistenZ); from the sexual pathology of Crash, through the stagey Freud/Jung melodrama of A Dangerous Method to the biting Hollywood satire of Maps to the Stars.
This new Crimes of the Future...
David Cronenberg’s latest feature shares a title with an experimental film he made in 1970. In the wake of the original Crimes of the Future, Cronenberg would effectively invent, refine and then move on from “‘body horror” cinema, leaving a genre-defining canon of fantasy films that used the mutations of the flesh to discuss matters of life and death. Since 1988’s Dead Ringers, the Canadian auteur’s preoccupations have been more psychological (notwithstanding the mugwumps of Naked Lunch and the quirky genre return of eXistenZ); from the sexual pathology of Crash, through the stagey Freud/Jung melodrama of A Dangerous Method to the biting Hollywood satire of Maps to the Stars.
This new Crimes of the Future...
- 9/11/2022
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), the demon child of the 2009 horror thriller “Orphan,” was a 9-year-old psycho freak who dressed like a frumpy Victorian doll and spoke in a Russian accent, which upped the ante on her malevolence by making her seem not just a junior devil but a junior devil from the land of Putin. Movies about monster children go way back, and after “The Omen” and “The Brood” and “Ringu” and so many others, there wasn’t a lot of room left for a pulp horror film like “Orphan” to surprise us. But the movie, in its schlocky blunderbuss way, did have an original twist: Esther was not, in fact, 9 years old — she was a woman in her early 30s named Leena who had a rare hormonal disorder that stunted her physical development. The folly of “Orphan” is that it wasn’t much different from the film it would have...
- 8/18/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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Canadian master of horror David Cronenberg will receive the Donostia Award, a lifetime achievement honor, at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival.
Cronenberg will receive the award at a gala on September 21 in San Sebastian’s Victoria Eugenia Theatre, followed by the screening of his latest movie, Crimes of the Future.
The dystopian drama, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, premiered in competition in Cannes last month, where it was an audience favorite. Critics hailed it as a return to form for Cronenberg, who is considered a pioneer of body horror and auteur sci-fi. From his earliest work, in Shivers (1975), Rabid (1977) and The Brood (1979), the Canadian director subverted B-movie horror tropes to tell disturbing tales of psychological torment Later films, including Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), Dead Ringers (1988), Naked Lunch (1991), and eXistenZ (1999), use the science fiction genre to provide a subversive critique of modern,...
Canadian master of horror David Cronenberg will receive the Donostia Award, a lifetime achievement honor, at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival.
Cronenberg will receive the award at a gala on September 21 in San Sebastian’s Victoria Eugenia Theatre, followed by the screening of his latest movie, Crimes of the Future.
The dystopian drama, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, premiered in competition in Cannes last month, where it was an audience favorite. Critics hailed it as a return to form for Cronenberg, who is considered a pioneer of body horror and auteur sci-fi. From his earliest work, in Shivers (1975), Rabid (1977) and The Brood (1979), the Canadian director subverted B-movie horror tropes to tell disturbing tales of psychological torment Later films, including Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), Dead Ringers (1988), Naked Lunch (1991), and eXistenZ (1999), use the science fiction genre to provide a subversive critique of modern,...
- 6/24/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fans of intelligent, thought-provoking, and visionary films that just happen to have strange new appendages growing out of the human body were thrilled when it was revealed David Cronenberg was returning to body horror with Crimes of the Future. Further, the new thriller marks the end of the Canadian director’s eight-year hiatus from filmmaking as well.
They had reason to cheer loud, as the movie really does feature bizarre, unidentifiable organs being removed from the body of pain-wracked performance artist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) in front of live audience—a clear nod to early films like The Brood, Videodrome, and The Fly that put Cronenberg on the map as a master of the body horror subgenre.
Cronenberg’s career has taken him down a number of other avenues artistically, with many of his films evolving away from the visceral gut-punch of his early work, but he’s never fully left genre material behind.
They had reason to cheer loud, as the movie really does feature bizarre, unidentifiable organs being removed from the body of pain-wracked performance artist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) in front of live audience—a clear nod to early films like The Brood, Videodrome, and The Fly that put Cronenberg on the map as a master of the body horror subgenre.
Cronenberg’s career has taken him down a number of other avenues artistically, with many of his films evolving away from the visceral gut-punch of his early work, but he’s never fully left genre material behind.
- 6/9/2022
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Opening today in North American movie theaters, Crimes of the Future is a new film by David "Mr. Canada" Cronenberg. In celebration, we've been looking back at his distinguished career this week. Shelagh Rowan-Legg reviewed the film last week, in connection with its worldwide debut at the Cannes Film Festival: "There's a reason why Cronenberg is the first name in body horror - his, ahem, body of work, spanning several decades, has evolved from arguably the more exploitative, to the more Romantic and deeply rich psychological/body horror of the late 80s and 90s, he's been a (mostly) consistent force, with certain themes developed over his oeuvre. With his latest film, he returns somewhat to what I would call his middle period, which...
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- 6/3/2022
- Screen Anarchy
This review of “Crimes of the Future” was first published May 23, 2022, after its premiere at Cannes Film Festival.
It’s hard to say whether “Crimes of the Future” will be David Cronenberg’s final film — never believe a director who says they’re quitting — but it definitely feels like a closing argument, one that both reaffirms the filmmaker’s favorite themes and stylistic choices while also reflecting a shift in his point of view.
We’ve been here before with Cronenberg; his 1999 “Existenz” also had the feel of a greatest-hits collection. But for audiences starved for brash choices from one of the cinema’s boldest living provocateurs, even a rehash seems fresher than corporate-assembled, focus-group-approved content.
Should this be the Canadian auteur’s final feature, he won’t be leaving on a high note: “Crimes of the Future” won’t be remembered alongside masterpieces like “Dead Ringers,” “The Fly,” “The Brood,...
It’s hard to say whether “Crimes of the Future” will be David Cronenberg’s final film — never believe a director who says they’re quitting — but it definitely feels like a closing argument, one that both reaffirms the filmmaker’s favorite themes and stylistic choices while also reflecting a shift in his point of view.
We’ve been here before with Cronenberg; his 1999 “Existenz” also had the feel of a greatest-hits collection. But for audiences starved for brash choices from one of the cinema’s boldest living provocateurs, even a rehash seems fresher than corporate-assembled, focus-group-approved content.
Should this be the Canadian auteur’s final feature, he won’t be leaving on a high note: “Crimes of the Future” won’t be remembered alongside masterpieces like “Dead Ringers,” “The Fly,” “The Brood,...
- 6/3/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
With the release of the director’s latest body horror Crimes of the Future, Guardian writers have singled out their most-loved Cronenberg offerings
Cronenberg’s horror films could be described as unnerving and unsettling, or majestically gross, but they’re almost never scary in the traditional sense. The Brood is a blood-curdling exception, unleashing a small army of half-formed dwarf-children with murderous intent. Written in the wake of Cronenberg’s bitter divorce and custody battle, The Brood is a raw expression of anger and psychic distress, which manifests itself in the bodily mutations that often find their way into his work. Only here the little monsters are literally the product of broken marriage, asexual offspring that the mother, Nola (Samantha Eggar), spawns while undergoing an intensive New Age therapy.
Cronenberg’s horror films could be described as unnerving and unsettling, or majestically gross, but they’re almost never scary in the traditional sense. The Brood is a blood-curdling exception, unleashing a small army of half-formed dwarf-children with murderous intent. Written in the wake of Cronenberg’s bitter divorce and custody battle, The Brood is a raw expression of anger and psychic distress, which manifests itself in the bodily mutations that often find their way into his work. Only here the little monsters are literally the product of broken marriage, asexual offspring that the mother, Nola (Samantha Eggar), spawns while undergoing an intensive New Age therapy.
- 6/2/2022
- by Scott Tobias, Jordan Hoffman, Charles Bramesco, AA Dowd, Guy Lodge, Benjamin Lee, Catherine Shoard, Radheyan Simonpillai, Veronica Esposito and Jesse Hassenger
- The Guardian - Film News
There's a reason why Cronenberg is the first name in body horror - his, ahem, body of work, spanning several decades, has evolved from arguably the more explotative, to the more Romantic and deeply rich psychological/body horror of the late 80s and 90s, he's been a (mostly) consistent force, with certain themes developed over his oeuvre. With his latest film, he returns somewhat to what I would call his middle period, which (for me) is the height of his talent. Crimes of the Future is perhaps less of a groundreaking work, and more a further extension of ideas and themes that Cronenberg has found the most fruitful to his vision. Incorporating some examination of our contemporary social media and televisual culture, set...
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- 5/25/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Most filmmakers who want to unsettle you in a horror movie will reach for a familiar set of tools: slashers, demons, shock cuts, soundtracks that go boom! in the night. But in “Crimes of the Future,” the writer-director David Cronenberg is out to provoke and disturb us with something far more traumatic than mere monsters.
Am I talking about the fact that in the distant future where the film is set, human beings grow mysterious new organs in their bodies? Or that having those organs removed through surgery has become, for a creepy rebel aesthete named Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), a species of performance art? Or that people no longer experience physical pain, and will therefore stand in the street late at night cutting each other for cheap thrills, as if they were shooting heroin in a back alley? Or that surgery itself, as someone puts it, has become “the...
Am I talking about the fact that in the distant future where the film is set, human beings grow mysterious new organs in their bodies? Or that having those organs removed through surgery has become, for a creepy rebel aesthete named Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), a species of performance art? Or that people no longer experience physical pain, and will therefore stand in the street late at night cutting each other for cheap thrills, as if they were shooting heroin in a back alley? Or that surgery itself, as someone puts it, has become “the...
- 5/23/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
For years Backlash was traditionally the PPV, I mean Premium Live Event (I will keep doing that!), that followed WrestleMania, so it make sense we are now calling it WrestleMania Backlash, as it always has been a kind of re-run of some of Mania’s moments, in fact sometimes it has been a chance to improve on Wm failings. Think back to Backlash 2009 (a better show than Wm itself) or Backlash 1999. Dare we hope for such heights from this year’s show, especially in spite of pretty piss poor build up due to heavy post-Mania blues. Well, let’s see shall we?
The opening video package dwells on the whole, “let’s play it back” idea.
1. Seth ‘Freakin’ Rollins vs. Cody Rhodes
No doubt about it, since his amazing WrestleMania return, Cody Rhodes has been on fire and it has all been handled beautifully. And after they both turned in...
The opening video package dwells on the whole, “let’s play it back” idea.
1. Seth ‘Freakin’ Rollins vs. Cody Rhodes
No doubt about it, since his amazing WrestleMania return, Cody Rhodes has been on fire and it has all been handled beautifully. And after they both turned in...
- 5/13/2022
- by Jack Bottomley
- The Cultural Post
“I have unfinished business with the future,” David Cronenberg has said of his new film. “Crimes of the Future,” which stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart, was announced this morning as part of the Competition lineup at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, running May 17-28. And right after Thierry Fremaux finished his press conference, Neon released the first official teaser of the sure-to-be-chilling thriller.
“Crimes of the Future” appears, in both the teaser and the official description the distributor released, to be a full-on return for Cronenberg to his body horror roots in movies like “Shivers,” “Rabid,” “The Brood,” and “The Fly.” There’s an image of a man with ears on the top of his forehead rather than where they should be. One’s lips are sewn shut with thread. “Crimes of the Future” is Cronenberg’s first film in eight years, and it definitely appears to be...
“Crimes of the Future” appears, in both the teaser and the official description the distributor released, to be a full-on return for Cronenberg to his body horror roots in movies like “Shivers,” “Rabid,” “The Brood,” and “The Fly.” There’s an image of a man with ears on the top of his forehead rather than where they should be. One’s lips are sewn shut with thread. “Crimes of the Future” is Cronenberg’s first film in eight years, and it definitely appears to be...
- 4/14/2022
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
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“Just The Driver”
By Raymond Benson
Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has always managed to push the envelope with nearly every one of his striking pieces of work since he appeared on the scene in the mid-1970s. Known at first as primarily a director of unique “body-horror” films (The Brood, 1979, or The Fly; 1986), Cronenberg spread his wings in the 1990s and moved away from the genre to tackle more dramatic and varied subjects. His 2007 crime picture about the Russian mafia operating in London, Eastern Promises, stands as a milestone title in the director’s filmography.
Kino Lorber Classics has released a superb 2-disk (4K Ultra and Blu-ray) package of the film, and the results are impressive. The picture quality is so sharp and clear that it could be used as a demonstration product for high definition televisions.
Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts) is a...
“Just The Driver”
By Raymond Benson
Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has always managed to push the envelope with nearly every one of his striking pieces of work since he appeared on the scene in the mid-1970s. Known at first as primarily a director of unique “body-horror” films (The Brood, 1979, or The Fly; 1986), Cronenberg spread his wings in the 1990s and moved away from the genre to tackle more dramatic and varied subjects. His 2007 crime picture about the Russian mafia operating in London, Eastern Promises, stands as a milestone title in the director’s filmography.
Kino Lorber Classics has released a superb 2-disk (4K Ultra and Blu-ray) package of the film, and the results are impressive. The picture quality is so sharp and clear that it could be used as a demonstration product for high definition televisions.
Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts) is a...
- 4/6/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
In 1986, David Cronenberg had a reputation that preceded him. Having already made "Scanners," "The Brood," "Shivers," "Videodrome," and "Rabid," Cronenberg was known in the filmmaking community for his bleak horror and unsettling gore. When Cronenberg completed his work on the Stephen King adaptation "The Dead Zone," he immediately began working on a film adaptation of the 1966 Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale." While Cronenberg reworked the script and designs for the film over the course of a year, he ultimately ended up leaving the project, which ended up being completed by Paul Verhoeven as "Total Recall." (What Cronenberg...
The post Why John Lithgow Turned Down David Cronenberg's The Fly appeared first on /Film.
The post Why John Lithgow Turned Down David Cronenberg's The Fly appeared first on /Film.
- 3/21/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Julia Ducournau’s follow-up to her superb cannibal shocker Raw is a visceral whirlwind of car sex, flesh-and-metal mutations – and love
Back in the mid-90s, David Cronenberg’s Crash – a film about auto-eroticism adapted from Jg Ballard’s 1973 novel – became a scandalous Cannes festival cause celebre when jury president Francis Ford Coppola reportedly campaigned against it winning the Palme d’Or. Here in the UK, the Evening Standard labelled Crash “beyond the bounds of depravity”, while the Daily Mail called for a ban – a call answered within the hallowed borough of Westminster. How delicious, then, that a quarter of a century later, the French film-maker Julia Ducournau – who made a Cannes splash with her 2016 feature debut, Raw – should take the Palme d’Or with a film that owes a striking debt to Cronenberg’s body-horror back catalogue in general, and Crash in particular.
As with all full-blooded genre movies,...
Back in the mid-90s, David Cronenberg’s Crash – a film about auto-eroticism adapted from Jg Ballard’s 1973 novel – became a scandalous Cannes festival cause celebre when jury president Francis Ford Coppola reportedly campaigned against it winning the Palme d’Or. Here in the UK, the Evening Standard labelled Crash “beyond the bounds of depravity”, while the Daily Mail called for a ban – a call answered within the hallowed borough of Westminster. How delicious, then, that a quarter of a century later, the French film-maker Julia Ducournau – who made a Cannes splash with her 2016 feature debut, Raw – should take the Palme d’Or with a film that owes a striking debt to Cronenberg’s body-horror back catalogue in general, and Crash in particular.
As with all full-blooded genre movies,...
- 12/26/2021
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Lock the doors. Turn on the lights. Check under the bed. Crank up the volume. It’s time for another Halloween Parade!
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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
Mandy (2018)
Carnival of Souls (1962) – Mary Lambert’s trailer commentary
Night Tide (1961) – Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
A Bucket Of Blood (1959) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s DVD review, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Dementia 13 (1963) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Region B Blu-ray review, Glenn Erickson’s director’s cut Blu-ray review
The Godfather (1972) – Ernest Dickerson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
The Godfather Part II (1974) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary
The Conversation (1974) – Josh Olson...
Please help support the Hollywood Food Coalition.
Click here, and be sure to indicate The Movies That Made Me in the note section so Josh can finally achieve his dream of showing Mandy to his wife!
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
Mandy (2018)
Carnival of Souls (1962) – Mary Lambert’s trailer commentary
Night Tide (1961) – Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
A Bucket Of Blood (1959) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s DVD review, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Dementia 13 (1963) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Region B Blu-ray review, Glenn Erickson’s director’s cut Blu-ray review
The Godfather (1972) – Ernest Dickerson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
The Godfather Part II (1974) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary
The Conversation (1974) – Josh Olson...
- 10/29/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Welcome back to Let’s Scare Bryan to Death! You may know this month’s guest, Phil Nobile Jr., as the Editor-in-Chief of an up-and-coming horror outlet called (checks notes) Fangoria magazine. You may have only heard of them if you’re one of our more hardcore horror fans, but I highly recommend you keep up with them because I think they’re going places. In all seriousness, Nobile has been tirelessly steering the ship during Fango’s relaunch in 2018 and their change in ownership in 2020. He’s getting a variety of voices into the horror-verse not only through the print magazine, but also through a robust virtual platform and even a regular email newsletter.
In between all of this, Nobile found a little time to chat with me about David Cronenberg’s 1983 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone. You may remember I covered eXistenZ with Joe Lipsett a while back,...
In between all of this, Nobile found a little time to chat with me about David Cronenberg’s 1983 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone. You may remember I covered eXistenZ with Joe Lipsett a while back,...
- 10/27/2021
- by Bryan Christopher
- DailyDead
After a hiatus where New York’s theaters closed during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings are taking place.
Metrograph
“We Won’t Grow Old Together” includes The Brood and Carol on 35mm; a 4K restoration of Possession is running; two of Clint Eastwood’s greatest films, A Perfect World and White Hunter, Black Heart, screen this Saturday.
Film at Lincoln Center
NYFF’s Revivals winds down with new restorations of Assault on Precinct 13, Ratcatcher, and Ed Lachman’s Songs for Drella.
IFC Center
In anticipation of Bergman Island, films by Mia Hansen-Løve screen side-by-side with Ingmar Bergman; while the 4K restoration of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s masterpiece Cure continues and World of Wong Kar-wai keeps going, Arrebato, Crash, and Mulholland Dr. have showings.
Metrograph
“We Won’t Grow Old Together” includes The Brood and Carol on 35mm; a 4K restoration of Possession is running; two of Clint Eastwood’s greatest films, A Perfect World and White Hunter, Black Heart, screen this Saturday.
Film at Lincoln Center
NYFF’s Revivals winds down with new restorations of Assault on Precinct 13, Ratcatcher, and Ed Lachman’s Songs for Drella.
IFC Center
In anticipation of Bergman Island, films by Mia Hansen-Løve screen side-by-side with Ingmar Bergman; while the 4K restoration of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s masterpiece Cure continues and World of Wong Kar-wai keeps going, Arrebato, Crash, and Mulholland Dr. have showings.
- 10/7/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Welcome to this week’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have the last show before SummerSlam. Jeffery Epstein: Boy for sale! Boy for sale! Elian Gonzalez: Is this legal? Jeffery Epstein: SIlence! Me: Wait a minute! You’re dead! Also, I thought you only liked women? Je: I’m evil! Me: Ah. Right. Wait. Elian should be in his thirties now! Elian: Freeze Epstein! Put your hands up! Je: Damn it! Me: Whaaaaaaaaaa?!?!?!?!?!?! Elian: I’m Officer Dan Mannley, Florida Coast Guard. We’ve been hunting this f–ker ever since he arose from his tomb on Valhalla. Me: Whaaaaaaa?!?!?!?!?!?! Je: …and I woul’ve got away with it too, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids and that dumb dog! Scooby Doo: Scooby Dooby Dooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! Me: F–k it. Let’s start SmackDown.
Match #1: Jey Uso b.
Match #1: Jey Uso b.
- 8/23/2021
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
Look, those of you who know me likely already know why I have an affinity for New World Pictures (hint: they’re responsible for a movie I think is really “swellraiser”). But I’ve always wondered what kind of film studio had the gumption to produce a movie at the height of the AIDS crisis that was directed by an openly gay man and revels in kink, incorporates copious amounts of blood, and dares us to indulge in our darker nature? It turns out that for a studio like New World Pictures, this tact was pretty much par for the course. New World’s history is all about taking chances, an approach that would ultimately lead to its downfall.
New World was founded by Roger Corman and his brother Gene in 1970. They distributed their first film, the biker flick Angels Die Hard, in June of that year, but their first...
New World was founded by Roger Corman and his brother Gene in 1970. They distributed their first film, the biker flick Angels Die Hard, in June of that year, but their first...
- 4/26/2021
- by Bryan Christopher
- DailyDead
Hello, dear readers! Today, we’re kicking off our 2021 Indie Horror Month celebration right here on Daily Dead, and I figured the best way to get things going was to put together a list featuring a bunch of my favorite independent genre movies that you can currently stream on a variety of platforms. As someone who was fortunate to grow up enjoying all sorts of films that were released outside of the studio system, and as someone who also continues to enjoy all the indie horror contributions that come along these days, there is definitely something for every kind of horror fan included here.
Check out this streaming list I’ve compiled here (in alphabetical order to make things easier), and we hope you’ll not only continue to check back throughout the entire month of April for all of our ongoing Indie Horror Month coverage, but that you’ll...
Check out this streaming list I’ve compiled here (in alphabetical order to make things easier), and we hope you’ll not only continue to check back throughout the entire month of April for all of our ongoing Indie Horror Month coverage, but that you’ll...
- 4/1/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
This article contains spoilers for the ending of Scanners.
Scanners was the fifth commercially released feature film (and seventh overall) directed by David Cronenberg, the independent Canadian auteur who initially made a name for himself as a director of visceral, provocative horror films such as Shivers, Rabid, and The Brood. Released 40 years ago on January 14, 1981, Scanners was a turning point for Cronenberg in many ways: it edged away from the sexually tinged “body horror” of his first few films and into the realms of sci-fi, action, and conspiracy thriller, while adding advanced visual effects and an overall polish to the director’s clinical esthetic.
Although none of his films up to that point had achieved any sort of mainstream success outside Canada, Scanners was a breakthrough for Cronenberg: his most expensive film to date (with a budget of $4 million), it was his first to also earn decent money in the lucrative North American market.
Scanners was the fifth commercially released feature film (and seventh overall) directed by David Cronenberg, the independent Canadian auteur who initially made a name for himself as a director of visceral, provocative horror films such as Shivers, Rabid, and The Brood. Released 40 years ago on January 14, 1981, Scanners was a turning point for Cronenberg in many ways: it edged away from the sexually tinged “body horror” of his first few films and into the realms of sci-fi, action, and conspiracy thriller, while adding advanced visual effects and an overall polish to the director’s clinical esthetic.
Although none of his films up to that point had achieved any sort of mainstream success outside Canada, Scanners was a breakthrough for Cronenberg: his most expensive film to date (with a budget of $4 million), it was his first to also earn decent money in the lucrative North American market.
- 1/14/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
The writer/director of Spontaneous discusses some of his favorite off the beaten path films. Plus grooming tips!
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Underwater (2020)
The Babysitter (2017)
Jane Got A Gun (2015)
Spontaneous (2020)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Mandy (2018)
Bad Hair (2020)
Little Murders (1971)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
My Boyfriend’s Back (1993)
Parents (1989)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Kuroneko (1968)
Onibaba (1964)
Birth (2004)
Heathers (1988)
Sexy Beast (2000)
Under The Skin (2013)
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Paddington 2 (2017)
The Brood (1979)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
The Fly (1986)
A History of Violence (2005)
Brick (2005)
Knives Out (2019)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)
Gremlins (1984)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Dead Alive (1993)
Meet The Feebles (1989)
The Addams Family (1991)
Addams Family Values (1993)
Other Notable Items
Bruce Springsteen
Justin Simien
Hulu
Tales From The Crypt TV series (1989-1996)
Alan Arkin
Temple University
Warren Beatty
Jules Feiffer
Paul Sylbert...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Underwater (2020)
The Babysitter (2017)
Jane Got A Gun (2015)
Spontaneous (2020)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Mandy (2018)
Bad Hair (2020)
Little Murders (1971)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
My Boyfriend’s Back (1993)
Parents (1989)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Kuroneko (1968)
Onibaba (1964)
Birth (2004)
Heathers (1988)
Sexy Beast (2000)
Under The Skin (2013)
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Paddington 2 (2017)
The Brood (1979)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
The Fly (1986)
A History of Violence (2005)
Brick (2005)
Knives Out (2019)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)
Gremlins (1984)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Dead Alive (1993)
Meet The Feebles (1989)
The Addams Family (1991)
Addams Family Values (1993)
Other Notable Items
Bruce Springsteen
Justin Simien
Hulu
Tales From The Crypt TV series (1989-1996)
Alan Arkin
Temple University
Warren Beatty
Jules Feiffer
Paul Sylbert...
- 12/1/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
The writer/director of Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Nest takes hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante on an exploration of his favorite cinematic endings.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
The Nest (2020)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Cowboys (1972)
The Parallax View (1974)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Limbo (1999)
Nashville (1975)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
3 Women (1977)
Chinatown (1974)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Third Man (1949)
Do The Right Thing (1989)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Our Idiot Brother (2011)
Shoot The Moon (1982)
Parasite (2019)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
The Brood (1979)
The Graduate (1967)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Candidate (1972)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Birds (1963)
The Firm (1989)
Scum (1979)
The Firm (2009)
The Vanishing (1988)
The Vanishing (1993)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Repulsion (1965)
Pirates (1986)
What? (1972)
Blowup (1966)
Blow Out (1981)
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Other Notable Items
Jude Law
Carrie Coon
Quentin Tarantino
John Wayne
The Pure Cinema Podcast
The Film Forum
Warren Beatty
Tfh Guru Howard...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
The Nest (2020)
Citizen Kane (1941)
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- 11/10/2020
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- Trailers from Hell
Editor’s Note: This post is updated monthly. Bookmark this page and come back every month to see the new horror movies on HBO Max.
Updated for October 2020
What ever would we do without horror?
So much of our daily life is built around logic and known, verifiable facts, and for some, the rest of the time must be supplemented with comforting reassurances that everything is going to be alright. Well if the last year has taught us anything… that’s not the case. Perhaps this is why horror hounds know the best way to face abstract fears is to confront them head on… and preferably with a screen in the way.
So, with Halloween around the corner, we figured it’s time to get in touch with our illogical, terrified animal brain. That’s where horror and horror movies in particular come in. Gathered here are the best horror...
Updated for October 2020
What ever would we do without horror?
So much of our daily life is built around logic and known, verifiable facts, and for some, the rest of the time must be supplemented with comforting reassurances that everything is going to be alright. Well if the last year has taught us anything… that’s not the case. Perhaps this is why horror hounds know the best way to face abstract fears is to confront them head on… and preferably with a screen in the way.
So, with Halloween around the corner, we figured it’s time to get in touch with our illogical, terrified animal brain. That’s where horror and horror movies in particular come in. Gathered here are the best horror...
- 10/10/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
If all goes as planned, the Lumière Film Festival will kick off this month in Lyon, France, to again celebrate classic cinema and fete such guests as Viggo Mortensen and Oliver Stone.
This year’s edition, which runs Oct. 10-18, is taking place under strict health and safety measures, including limiting public gatherings to a maximum of 1,000 people. Due to recent spikes in cases and hospitalizations, restrictions have been changing around the country, making the festival’s organization more complicated.
While Covid-19 continues to cast its shadow over industry gatherings, growing opportunities for heritage film under the pandemic is sure to be a major topic of discussion at the fest’s Intl.
Classic Film Market (Mifc).
Headed by Bertrand Tavernier, Institut Lumière president, and Cannes topper Thierry Frémaux, Institut Lumière director, the fest is one of the world’s premier events showcasing heritage cinema and film restoration.
This year the...
This year’s edition, which runs Oct. 10-18, is taking place under strict health and safety measures, including limiting public gatherings to a maximum of 1,000 people. Due to recent spikes in cases and hospitalizations, restrictions have been changing around the country, making the festival’s organization more complicated.
While Covid-19 continues to cast its shadow over industry gatherings, growing opportunities for heritage film under the pandemic is sure to be a major topic of discussion at the fest’s Intl.
Classic Film Market (Mifc).
Headed by Bertrand Tavernier, Institut Lumière president, and Cannes topper Thierry Frémaux, Institut Lumière director, the fest is one of the world’s premier events showcasing heritage cinema and film restoration.
This year the...
- 10/8/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max is packed with new and classic genre titles this Halloween season. From the new Invisible Man and Doctor Sleep, to The Brood and The Blob, here's a look of what HBO Max is offering as part of their "Halloween is Here" lineup:
Hit horror movies you won’t want to stream alone like The Invisible Man, Us, It: Chapter 2, and Doctor Sleep, creepy cult classics Night of the Living Dead, Eraserhead and Scanners, and psychological thrillers like The Haunting, Glass, and Dolores Claiborne will be available to stream alongside TV series such as Lovecraft Country, True Blood, The Outsider, and Raised by Wolves, and scares for all ages such as Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays, Gremlins 2, Spooky Buddies, and Adventure Time.
In addition, HBO Max is pulling together a collection of Halloween-themed episodes from fan-favorite series like Friends, Euphoria, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Big Bang Theory,...
Hit horror movies you won’t want to stream alone like The Invisible Man, Us, It: Chapter 2, and Doctor Sleep, creepy cult classics Night of the Living Dead, Eraserhead and Scanners, and psychological thrillers like The Haunting, Glass, and Dolores Claiborne will be available to stream alongside TV series such as Lovecraft Country, True Blood, The Outsider, and Raised by Wolves, and scares for all ages such as Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays, Gremlins 2, Spooky Buddies, and Adventure Time.
In addition, HBO Max is pulling together a collection of Halloween-themed episodes from fan-favorite series like Friends, Euphoria, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Big Bang Theory,...
- 10/2/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
It’s a great time to be a horror fan. Not only are Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and Shudder awash with all kinds of horror movies old and new, but the Criterion Channel is getting in on the gruesome action with a month’s worth of horror titles from the 1970s.
The subscription service is the digital offshoot of the Criterion Collection, which for more than 35 years has been providing definitive archival home video versions of classic and contemporary films from around the world. Criterion launched its streaming service last year as a way to offer a curated cross-section of its library of films online.
Horror has always had a respectful home at Criterion, with the company publishing definitive editions of a number of the genre’s landmark films. The October rollout of horror movies for the Halloween season is similar to what other companies are doing, but the focus is the difference here.
The subscription service is the digital offshoot of the Criterion Collection, which for more than 35 years has been providing definitive archival home video versions of classic and contemporary films from around the world. Criterion launched its streaming service last year as a way to offer a curated cross-section of its library of films online.
Horror has always had a respectful home at Criterion, with the company publishing definitive editions of a number of the genre’s landmark films. The October rollout of horror movies for the Halloween season is similar to what other companies are doing, but the focus is the difference here.
- 10/1/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Rachel Weisz will star in a TV series re-imagining of Dead Ringers, director David Cronenberg’s classic 1988 film, according to The Wrap.
Amazon Studios and Annapurna TV are backing the project, which Weisz will also be an executive producer on, along with Normal People lead writer Alice Birch. The series will mark the Oscar-winning actress’ first role for TV.
In the original film, Jeremy Irons played successful twin gynecologists named Elliot and Beverly Mantle, who share some of their patients sexually without the women knowing which man is which. But when Beverly becomes emotionally attached to an actress (Genevieve Bujold), the co-dependent twins descend into depression, sexual depravity and drug addiction with harrowing results.
The new version, described as a gender-swapped “modern take” on the material, will feature Weisz as the identical Mantle sisters, who “share everything: drugs, lovers, and an unapologetic desire to do whatever it takes, including pushing...
Amazon Studios and Annapurna TV are backing the project, which Weisz will also be an executive producer on, along with Normal People lead writer Alice Birch. The series will mark the Oscar-winning actress’ first role for TV.
In the original film, Jeremy Irons played successful twin gynecologists named Elliot and Beverly Mantle, who share some of their patients sexually without the women knowing which man is which. But when Beverly becomes emotionally attached to an actress (Genevieve Bujold), the co-dependent twins descend into depression, sexual depravity and drug addiction with harrowing results.
The new version, described as a gender-swapped “modern take” on the material, will feature Weisz as the identical Mantle sisters, who “share everything: drugs, lovers, and an unapologetic desire to do whatever it takes, including pushing...
- 8/18/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
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“Twins And Stirrups”
By Raymond Benson
Okay, David Cronenberg has made some creepy-ass movies in his career, but there may not be one as icky as the 1988 Dead Ringers.
Cronenberg’s horror films seem to always deal with the human body in some grotesque fashion, whether it be mutant babies being born outside of the womb (The Brood), heads exploding (Scanners), or a man turning into an insect (The Fly)… and Dead Ringers fits the bill. It is a movie guaranteed to give women nightmares, for it’s about insane gynecologists. Identical twins, in fact. Twin gynecologists with stirrups, strange probing devices, and killer looks. Let that sink in for a moment.
Dead Ringers is somewhat based on a true story about real twin gynecologists, Stewart and Cyril Marcus, who lived and practiced in New York City in the late 60s and early 70s.
“Twins And Stirrups”
By Raymond Benson
Okay, David Cronenberg has made some creepy-ass movies in his career, but there may not be one as icky as the 1988 Dead Ringers.
Cronenberg’s horror films seem to always deal with the human body in some grotesque fashion, whether it be mutant babies being born outside of the womb (The Brood), heads exploding (Scanners), or a man turning into an insect (The Fly)… and Dead Ringers fits the bill. It is a movie guaranteed to give women nightmares, for it’s about insane gynecologists. Identical twins, in fact. Twin gynecologists with stirrups, strange probing devices, and killer looks. Let that sink in for a moment.
Dead Ringers is somewhat based on a true story about real twin gynecologists, Stewart and Cyril Marcus, who lived and practiced in New York City in the late 60s and early 70s.
- 8/3/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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