Rabid
Cronenberg's second feature, with an experimental skin graft, a stinger in an armpit, and a plague across Montreal.
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Cronenberg's second feature, with an experimental skin graft, a stinger in an armpit, and a plague across Montreal.
Publicly funded, debated in the Canadian parliament, and filmed with complete clinical calm.
Cronenberg's divorce, filmed. The angriest thing he ever made and he has said so.
Everybody remembers the head. The film underneath is about a pharmaceutical company and a custody dispute.
Predicted most of what people now say about the internet, using a Betamax slot in a man's stomach.
Jeremy Irons plays twin gynaecologists who share everything, and Cronenberg's coldest, saddest film.
Cronenberg's most restrained film, and Christopher Walken plays a man who can see how it ends.
Under the effects it is a film about watching someone you love get a terminal illness, and Goldblum plays it that way.