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David Cronenberg Confronts the Horror of His Own Grief April 21, 2025
For more than 40 years, you’ve been making horror movies about the human body. Shivers [1975] was about a deadly outbreak of erotomania-inducing parasites; Scanners [1981] shows telekinetic powers being used to make someone’s head explode; in The Fly...
David Cronenberg, Transformed April 18, 2025
In 1975, David Cronenberg’s debut feature film, Shivers (aka They Came With From Within, aka The Parasite Murders), was trashed by his Canadian countrymen. Writing under a pseudonym, the esteemed Canuck literary critic Robert Fulford wrote that Shive...
