Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. When you think body horror, you think David Cronenberg.
What becomes of our loved ones after death? Canadian director Raymond St-Jean‘s new movie, Veins, which world premiered in the main competition program of the 29th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights ...
Body horror wasn’t even a thing when David Cronenberg’s first commercial feature, “Shivers” (aka “They Came from Within”), released 50 years ago. Cronenberg’s latest, “The Shrouds” — which opens ...
The horror genre is home to some of the greatest filmmakers in cinema history, and director David Cronenberg is arguably in the upper echelon. Practically inventing his very own sub-genre in the ...
Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...
“Grief is rotting your teeth.” This line opens the science-fiction self-reflection The Shrouds. Vincent Cassel, playing a thinly veiled David Cronenberg stand-in (with each successive scene, Cassel ...
Fans of legendary director David Cronenberg love to talk about gross body horror. It’s what made The Fly (1986) arresting and Videodrome (1983) provocative. In all the obsession around Cronenberg’s ...
When you spend a lot of time immersed in the work of a particular filmmaker, you can find yourself fitting patterns and finding through lines across decades. And it can be great, because you feel like ...