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The Freaky Stuff: The Early Works of David Cronenberg

Posted by Admin on July 31, 2014 | Leave a Comment

“Did you ever see that scene in Scanners where that dude’s head blew up?”

This month sees the release of David Cronenberg’s seminal Scanners on BluRay through Criterion. To celebrate, we’re looking at seven films from the director’s early career –- films that, when viewed back to back, showcase the development of one of cinema’s great visionaries

Canadian-born Cronenberg’s work is often inspired by the inner workings of the human body: its pleasure receptors, its tendency to mutate, and its ongoing war with infection. Cronenberg has been making movies since the 1960s. His films, while challenging, contain a strange, […]