Devin Townsend’s Extreme Metal Hails the New Flesh
Through their respective arts—Devin Townsend’s dense, aggressive music and David Cronenberg’s visceral, psychological cinema—they explore the fraught boundaries of human experience.
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‘The Shrouds’ and David Cronenberg’s Cinema of Bodily Grief
David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds harkens back to his early body horror obsessions with a poet’s tone, retaining the connective tissue that embodies him.
The 13 Greatest Horror Directors of All Time
In honor of Halloween, here are 13 fascinating fright mavens who’ve made scary movies that much more meaningful.
32 Films That Begin With Leaving a Mental Institution
"Crazy" movies for crazy times. These 32 films make the case for the recently-escaped-or-released-mental-patient narrative as its own subgenre, replete with a language of recurring themes, plot devices, and character archetypes.
40 Nights of Must-Watch Movies (in the Comfort of Your Home): The Franchise
Back by popular demand! Recommendations from “40 Nights of Must-Watch Movies” that will keep you, your dog and your elephant glued to the couch for months.
The 10 Oddest Couples in Movie History
Love might mean never having to say you're sorry, but for the ten unusual couples here, it also means not being "normal", either.
Long Live the Old Flesh: David Cronenberg’s ‘Consumed’
Cronenberg's Consumed feels similar to that of fellow Canadian sci-fi writer William Gibson, in that the narrative is globe-hopping in nature and both writers share a fetish for technology.
Films for Fans of Visionary Directors
In film, "visionary" has become a marketing adjective, like "iconic". Here, on the matter of visionary directors, we separate the claret from the beaujolais, if you will.
‘Scanners’ Still Has the Power to Blow Your Mind
Three decades since its release, David Cronenberg’s Scanners is still a head-popping good time.