Wifey's gotta do a calculus exam in a few, I'm gonna watch a flick I haven't seen. Should it be..

Cronenberg's THE FLY was released today (August 15) in 1986. At the end of a week, I definitely feel like my dude Brundlefly here looks.

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-fly-1986

We started watching David #Cronenberg #movies chronologically. Only the full-length ones, so we started w/Shivers, followed by Rabid and Fast Company.

First two were rather clumsy but already thematically fully Cronenbergian with body horror, sexuality etc. Also interesting to see the development of photography film by film.

But Fast Company??? A drag race #movie by Cronenberg? Totally mediocre & as idiotic as you’d expect a #dragrace movie to be.

What on earth motivated him making that one?

#Videodrome is rather good. It's not in every movie you get someone whipping a flesh TV.

And it works so well with the 70s/80s video tape format -- like, you could update to some dark web/video download tale, but it would lose something. It's nice to see fleshy video tapes breathing.

I don't think this movie needs any deep analysis. It seems pretty straight forward to me:

Just contrive the events to make some #BodyHorror and have a couple of weird body horror deaths.

The underground network the film is about is merely a MacGuffin. It's there to drive the plot in an illuminati way, but the only aim of the film is body horror.

And for that it's charmingly honest, I think. Does what you expect from a #Cronenberg movie.

The effects hold up too. Surely, they look a little fake now and then, but very done.

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Kaltenbachtal #Wuppertal #cronenberg

David Cronenberg dissects the heart, humor and “hole horror” of his filmography from Shivers to The Shrouds https://letterboxd.com/journal/david-cronenberg-the-shrouds-interview

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Of late, I can't stop watching David Cronenberg movies; made a brief foray to Possession earlier this week too. Keen to discuss / chat if anyone has opinions!

This one's already on my Letterboxd watchlist, but the new trailer just came out - David Cronenberg's THE SHROUDS comes to theaters next month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwh1Fob4VKs

#Cronenberg #TheShrouds #2025Movies #horror @horror

Some good gets from thrifting the other day. 10 sci-fi flicks including eXistenZ!

#horror #Cronenberg #BodyHorror #SciFi #movies #film @horror