WATCHknownShivers
1975 · Canada · 87m
Publicly funded, debated in the Canadian parliament, and filmed with complete clinical calm.
Director · 8 films
Horror films directed by David Cronenberg
8 films directed by David Cronenberg are catalogued in the ledger, from 1975 to 1988. Countries of origin: Canada and USA. The most common subgenres here are body horror (7), psychological (4), cosmic horror (1) and creature feature (1). The best-documented entries are The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988) and The Dead Zone (1983).
The films
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WATCHknownRabid
1977 · Canada/USA · 87m
Cronenberg's second feature, with an experimental skin graft, a stinger in an armpit, and a plague across Montreal.
WATCHknownThe Brood
1979 · Canada · 92m
Cronenberg's divorce, filmed. The angriest thing he ever made and he has said so.
WATCHknownScanners
1981 · Canada · 103m
Everybody remembers the head. The film underneath is about a pharmaceutical company and a custody dispute.
WATCHcanonThe Dead Zone
1983 · USA · 100m
Cronenberg's most restrained film, and Christopher Walken plays a man who can see how it ends.
WATCHcanonVideodrome
1983 · Canada/USA · 89m
Predicted most of what people now say about the internet, using a Betamax slot in a man's stomach.
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WATCHcanonThe Fly
1986 · USA/Canada · 92m
Under the effects it is a film about watching someone you love get a terminal illness, and Goldblum plays it that way.
Goreledger 9/10
WATCHcanonDead Ringers
1988 · Canada · 115m
Jeremy Irons plays twin gynaecologists who share everything, and Cronenberg's coldest, saddest film.