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David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian horror and science fiction film director. He is famous for creating the genre of " body horror", exploring people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical.Cronenberg's films follow a definite progression, a movement from the social world to the inner life. In his early films, scientists modify human bodies, which results in social anarchy (e.g. Shivers, Rabid). In his middle period, the chaos wrought by the scientist is more personal, (e.g. The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome). In the later period, the scientist himself is altered by his hubris (e.g. The Fly). This trajectory culiminates in Dead Ringers, in which a twin pair of gynecologists spiral into codependency and drug addiction.
Cronenberg's later films tend more to the psychological, often contrasting subjective and obective realities (eXistenZ, M. Butterfly, Spider).
In most projects, Cronenberg tries to represent his motto New Flesh, which explains the mutation of human body or living organism by a machine or any other mutated organism, into the New Flesh. In both options, the flesh is supposed to be distorted by man who creates the machinery or the organisms.
1 Selected filmography
- Transfer (1966)
- From the Drain (1967)
- Stereo (1969)
- Programme X TV Series (1970) (episode "Secret Weapons")
- Crimes of the Future (1970)
- Tourettes (TV) (1971)
- The Victim (1974)
- Shivers (1975)
- Rabid (1977)
- Fast Company (1979)
- The Brood (1979)
- Scanners (1981)
- The Dead Zone (1983)
- VideodromeVideodrome is a 1983 film written and directed by David Cronenberg. James Woods and Deborah Harry star. The film's story begins with the program director (Woods) of a sleazy local cable TV channel looking for new material to titillate his viewers. His tec (1983)
- The FlyThe Fly is a 1986 film directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. It is a remake of a 1958 film of the same name. Goldblum plays Seth Brundle, a scientist. He meets Veronica (Davis), a reporter who ends up interviewing Brund (1986)
- Dead RingersDead Ringers ( 1988) is a psychological horror film directed by David Cronenberg. Inspired by true events, the film stars Jeremy Irons in a dual role as Elliot and Beverly Mantle, identical twin gynecologists. Elliot, the more aggressive of the two, seduc (1988)
- Naked LunchNaked Lunch is a 1991 film by the Canadian director David Cronenberg. Based on the fiction and autobiographical accounts of William S. Burroughs (including, but by no means limited to, Naked Lunch itself), the plot follows a writer, Bill, who transports t (1991)
- M. ButterflyButterfly is a 1993 film directed by David Cronenberg. The screenplay is by David Henry Hwang based on his play of the same name. Jeremy Irons and John Lone star. Loosely based on true events, the movie concerns a French diplomat (Irons) assigned to Beiji (1993)
- CrashA crash or Crash may mean: A car or other vehicular crash is a collision with something, including another vehicle. See road safety. A crash is also a common term for a computer fault that brings down a program or operating system. It can also refer to th (1996)
- eXistenZeXistenZ is a 1999 film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. Its plot is based on the confusion between reality and virtual reality as the characters move in and out of a computer game called eXistenZ the aim of which is unknown. The players are linked (1999)
- SpiderSpider is a 2001 film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. Spider is an exploration of the mind of a schizophrenic and the story is told through the eyes of a son whose father murdered his mother and replaced her with a prostitute. Gradually, it is reve (2002)
