David Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence” presents its materials plainly: a diner, a family, a routine, a sudden act. What ...
David Cronenberg knows exactly how he wants to be buried. In his new movie “The Shrouds” (in theaters nationwide April 25), the Canadian filmmaker imagines a near future where high-definition cameras ...
It can be difficult to find a good horror movie remake…for every great example like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and ...
For cinephiles of a certain proclivity, a new David Cronenberg movie is a true event. The director, who just turned 82, has a filmography so singular and distinct that the word “Cronenbergian” has ...
Grief, technology, and psychology are on the slab in ‘The Shrouds,’ director David Cronenberg’s witty, perverse, provocative peek inside the grave. Just as his 1979 horror classic ‘The Brood’ was ...
Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...
David Cronenberg, aficionado of the unnerving, won't let his feelings about a creator get in the way of a creation. "I still love my Tesla," says the filmmaker, seated in a dimly lit conference room ...
David Cronenberg never planned to become an adjective. But now that he is one, he’s happy to claim it. “Ever since ‘Bergmanesque’ and ‘Felliniesque,’ I think one has to aspire to becoming an adjective ...
David Cronenberg doesn't just make body horror. He makes body theology. His movies are messy and perverse and somehow still cold to the touch. They're clinical, like they’re being dissected in front ...
Few recent films, and even fewer by major directors, are so death-haunted as David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds. Since well before its premiere has there been much acknowledgment of personal parallels for ...
David Cronenberg is shorter than I expected. Standing in front of him during the Tribeca Film Festival red carpet for the 50th anniversary of Shivers, a nasty film about parasitic sex freaks, I hype ...