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David Cronenberg’s History of Violence -
23 October 2007
life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."- - David Cronenberg -
-David Cronenberg has come a long way since he started work on his first feature, -Orgy of the Blood Parasites-, 33-years
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Cronenberg's exploding-head movie to be remade -
28 February 2007
David Cronenberg's 1981 movie Scanners - known by many as the one where a man's head explodes - is to be remade, with the director of Saw II and Saw III heading up the project.-The futuristic thriller, which told the story of an underground group of people with psychic po
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Cronenberg and Mortensen reunite -
20 November 2006
Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg are set to work together again this week as filming begins on a new thriller entitled Eastern Promises.-The pair recently collaborated on A History of Violence, a dark and tense drama featuring Mortensen as a seemingly happy family man
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David Cronenberg - filmography
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Eastern Promises
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
Director: David Cronenberg
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The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), who is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna (Naomi Watts), an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally ..read more »
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A History of Violence
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt
Director: David Cronenberg
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Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes action ..read more »
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Spider
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne
Director: David Cronenberg
Certificate: 
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Based on the novel by Patrick McGrath, David Cronenberg's psychological drama follows Dennis "Spider" Cleg (Ralph Fiennes), a mentally disturbed man who has just been released from an asylum. Upon taking up residence in a seedy London apartment building, the already introverted Spider begins to ..read more »
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Existenz
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe
Director: David Cronenberg
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Set in the near-future, eXistenZ depicts a society in which game designers are worshipped as superstars and players can organically enter inside the games. At the center of the story is Allegra Geller whose latest games system eXistenZ taps so deeply into its users fears and desires that it blurs ..read more »
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Crash
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Deborah Unger
Director: David Cronenberg
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Set tomorrow or the day after, in a world where sensation has replaced communication, Crash tells the story of James Ballard, a commercial director in the throes of a troubled relationship with his wife, Catherine. One day, Ballard is involved in a car accident that results in the other driver's ..read more »
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Nightbreed
(1990)
Starring: David Cronenberg, Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby
Director: Clive Barker
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A community of mutant outcasts of varying types and abilities attempts to escape the attentions of a psychotic serial killer and redneck vigilantes with the help of a brooding young man who discovers them.
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Dead Ringers
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, Heidi Von Palleske
Director: David Cronenberg
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Cronenberg coaxes a phenomenal performance out of Irons in this disturbing tale of Beverly and Elliot Mantle-twin gynecologists who literally can't exist without each other, sharing everything from an apartment to women. When a glamorous, neurotic actress (Bujold) enters into their world, she ..read more »
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Fly, The - BLU-RAY Version
(1986)
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
Director: David Cronenberg
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A remake of the 1958 horror about a brilliant scientist who develops a machine that molecularly transports objects in seconds. Inadvertently the machine turns him into a fly, with incredible agility, and super strength. But the metamorphosis also brings insanity as an insatiable appetite ensues.
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The Fly
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
Director: David Cronenberg
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Prepare yourself to witness a fusion of man and insect that has to be experienced to be believed! Dr Seth Brundle plays fast and loose with the laws of nature. Experimenting with "live" matter transmission. The day comes to test the ultimate guinea pig... himself! But that's the day the fly gets ..read more »
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The Dead Zone
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt
Director: David Cronenberg
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David Cronenberg's first foray into mainstream filmmaking is also one of his most satisfying pictures. Adapted from a Stephen King novel, the movie stars Christopher Walken as Johnny, a man who has been in a coma for five years and wakes up to find that he can tell a person's fate just by touching ..read more »
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Videodrome
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: James Woods, Peter Dvorsky, Deborah Harry
Director: David Cronenberg
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Sleazy cable TV programmer Max Renn (Woods) encounters a strange new program known as VIDEODROME. Under its mysterious influence, Max's fantasies seem to come to life as strange things begin to happen and reality is not what it seems. Unmistakable weirdness from cult director Cronenberg.
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Scanners
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack
Director: David Cronenberg
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Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers. This breed of superbrains was developed as an accidental side effect of a tranquilizer administered to some women during pregnancy. Cameron Vale is one such scanner, and he, like most of those with similar powers, ..read more »
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The Brood
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle
Director: David Cronenberg
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After the painful breakup of her marriage, Nola Carveth seeks treatment at an experimental psychiatric clinic known as the Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmatics. While there, under the care of Dr. Raglan, the institute's founder, she is encouraged to work through her subconscious feelings of hurt ..read more »
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Fast Company
(1979)
Starring: William Smith, Claudi Jennings, John Saxon
Director: David Cronenberg
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Though known for his thinking-person's horror flicks, director David Cronenberg provides a realistic, compelling portrait of the race car circuit in FAST COMPANY. Lonnie "Lucky Man" Johnson (William Smith) knows that his sponsor, Fast Company Motor Oil, wants to let him go in favor of a younger, ..read more »
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Rabid
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Marilyn Chambers, Joe Silver, Patricia Gage
Director: David Cronenberg
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David Cronenberg's horror film stars adult film icon Marilyn Chambers as a motorcycle bad-girl who gets into an accident and undergoes an operation. A gaping sore develops under her arm and soon she's guzzling all the blood she can get her hands on. Her unsuspecting victims become infected with a ..read more »
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Shivers
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry, Alan Magicovsky
Director: David Cronenberg
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Bizarre parasites lead the inhabitants of a high-rise apartment building to go on an orgy of violence. Horror and some humor mix in director David Cronenberg's bizarre breakthrough hit.
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Stereo And Crimes Of The Future
(1969)
Starring: Ronald Mlodzik
Director: David Cronenberg
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Two features from David Cronenberg. In 'Stereo (1969) The Future' the Canadian Academy for Erotic Enquiry subjects seven young adults to a kind of brain surgery to test the theories of the parapsychologist Luther Stringfellow. Also includes 'Crimes Of The Future (1970)'.
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Spider
to Watch Now
(2003)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne
Director: David Cronenberg
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 98 minutes
After a long period in a mental institution - the result of a traumatic childhood - he returns to the streets of the East End of London where he grew up. The sights, sounds and the smells of those streets begin to awaken the deeply buried memories of his childhood. At the centre of these memories ..read more »
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David Cronenberg facts
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Dated but entertaining 8 November 2004
...Like so many of David Cronenberg's classic horror title (Videodrome, Rabid, etc) Scanners has not dated well. It very much looks of its time with effects largely unimpressive t...
Crashed and burned! 12 January 2005
Question reality 17 June 2004
