Crimes of the Future Filmotomy Cannes
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Festival de Cannes Review: Crimes of the Future (2022)

Crimes of the Future was the name of a short David Cronenberg made in 1970. The inspiration for the title came from Henning Carlsen’s classic…

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1988 in Film: Dead Ringers

Amidst the avalanche of franchise sequels and campy B-movies that seemed to dominate horror in 1988, a handful of horror’s big names were releasing some…

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Videodrome
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Film Road to Halloween: The Influence of Television in David Cronenberg’s ‘Videodrome’ (1983)

The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 62 days to…

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
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Horror Films of 1979: A Top 10

Horror films in 1979 – hey maybe films of all genres to some degree – were all about style. Each of the films listed here…

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Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: Maps to the Stars, 2014

We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. Maps to the Stars, 2014 Prix d’interprétation féminine…

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Shivers – Humanity Collapsing From Within

Over the years, Cronenberg’s debut film Shivers has gained the reputation for being the ‘thinking man’s horror film’. It’s a film that provided both bloody…

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Mind Games: Revisting David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone

You are either in possession of a very new human ability… or a very old one. Dr. Sam Weizak (Herbert Lom) 1983 saw four film…

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Happy Birthday Mr Pattinson

When I first saw Robert Pattinson on-screen (in Twilight…Don’t judge me, I was a teenage girl at the time), I knew this was a talented…

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