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Here's your first look at Antiviral, the directorial debut of David Cronenberg's son Brandon — with a totally mind-blowing and revolting premise. Twitch Film has this first image from the film, plus the first synopsis: More »
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For some, Sigmund Freud's name is synonymous with medical quackery and sexual obsession. But in David Cronenberg's new movie about Freud's circle of colleagues in the 1910s and 20s, the founder of psychoanalysis emerges as a complicated figure, fighting for scientific recognition in a society where he's treated as an interloper for being Jewish — and a pariah for daring to point out the hypocrisy of European sexual morality. More »
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Back in early October, we reported that David Cronenberg had written a script for his sequel to The Fly — but whether the movie actually got made was up to Fox, who were taking a look at the script. Now, Cronenberg says Fox has officially passed on the project. He tells an interviewer, "I wrote a script, and at the moment Fox is not wanting to do the project." [The Playlist] More »
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Years ago, rumor had it that David Cronenberg was remaking his insect body-splicing movie The Fly for Fox. Turns out we were misled: it wasn't a remake, it's a sequel. And Cronenberg's already written the screenplay. So what's the hold-up? More »
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These days, director David Cronenberg does Oscar-style fare like A History of Violence, but back in the 1980s he made splattery body horror cheesefests. Scanners is one of the best of the lot, giving us a spooky, memorably gross, look at the lives of outcast telepaths who were the victims of government experiments. Also, there were a lot of exploding heads. Now, Weinstein Co.'s Dimension Films is producing a TV series based on Cronenberg's weird flick. More »
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People worship Burroughs' Naked Lunch, but don't give it its props as a science fiction classic, argues Rudy Rucker on his blog. Rucker, whose new novel about Alan Turing includes Burroughs as a character, describes Naked Lunch as "Transreal SF." More »
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Ever since ET for the Atari 2600 wowed gamers worldwide, science fiction and video games have been natural bedfellows. Here are 10 great scifi tales that embrace the aesthetics, technology, and popular tropes of the gaming world. More »
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What happens when the one you love is in love with a black hole? Body horror legend David Cronenberg's is about to find out, as he's adapting Jonathan Lethem's love story As She Climbed Across the Table. More »
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The sight of men and women changing into something new, different, and — albeit rarely — better has transfixed audiences for decades. Usually gory, frequently scary, and occasionally hilarious, here are some of cinema's greatest moments of mutant transformation. More »
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There's only one thing Hollywood loves than a movie based on a toy: remakes. Dozens of science-fiction classics are slated for do-overs. But instead of remaking films that were fine the first time, here are 20 books Hollywood should film. More »
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Cronenberg's terrifying mutant-baby film The Brood is the next classic to be revamped and updated. Brack Eisner, who directed The Crazies remake, will be remaking The Brood next. More »
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If you think your gynecologist is awful, just be glad you don't visit twin OB/GYNs Beverly and Elliot Mantle (Jeremy Irons.) They become obsessed with mutant women, and in this famous scene, Beverly unveils his custom-made surgical tools for mutants. More »
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Is Hollywood finally figuring it out? First Ridley Scott gets behind the Alien prequel and now David Cronenberg himself is remaking his own film, The Fly. While we wish it was something original, you can never have enough Cronenberg. More »
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Jennifer's Body director Karyn Kusama is subjecting our favorite long-lashed librarian, Rachel Weisz, to Cronenberg-inspired body horror in her next potential film project. In an exclusive interview with Kusama we talked gore, blood, guts, and future horror projects. More »
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You've got this sweet pad under the cemetary, full of all your monstery friends, and then some human chick with makeup and haircare products tries to move in. Totally sucks. In this great torture-the-sorority-chick scene from Clive Barker's hellaciously awesome movie Nightbreed, a nice girl from the human world searches for her missing boyfriend in the demon ghetto below a cemetery called Midian. This movie has a special place in my heart, and not just for the sarcastic monster dialogue. First of all, it's Clive "Hellraiser" Barker, so the monsters are cool, sympathetic, and kind of sexy. I love when the monster sees our human girl and grumbles, "There goes the neighborhood!" Plus the bad guy is a serial killer psychiatrist played with campy calm by David Cronenberg — yes, the same Cronenberg who directed Scanners, The Fly, and A History of Violence. And frankly I'm just a sucker for the basic underlying plot of Nightbreed, which is that the monsters are a misunderstood minority who hide away from the cruel humans and form a grotesquely sweet, caring community under an old cemetery. Plus, I love that all the demons in this movie smoke. Where do they get cigarettes in their underground city? [Nightbreed via IMDB] More »
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That's right The Fly is 22 years old and AMC is celebrating with an adorable "fly fact" video. Toast a glass of regurgitated champagne fly style and talk about the baboon/cat combination that Seth Brundle almost created. [Sci Fi Scanner] More »
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Sure you can see Paris Hilton getting her face slashed in forthcoming movie Repo: The Genetic Opera, but this month in David Cronenberg's fiendishly seductive opera adaptation of his 1980s gorefest The Fly, you can see a naked man go transgenic and turn his entire body into an experiment in human-insect genetic hybridization. Plus, the naked transgenic guy will actually be singing real opera. With a real orchestra conducted by Los Angeles Opera director Placido Domingo. The kicker? Cronenberg himself has directed this opera production, which retells the story of teleportation expert Seth Brundle's tragic love affair with a human woman and a stray fly whose genetic material is fused with his own. More »
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If you've always enjoyed the David Cronenberg version of transportation horror porn The Fly but felt that it lacked the certain je ne sais quoi that a couple of song-and-dance routines would've lent the occasion, then I've got two pieces of news for you. Firstly, you're not alone. Secondly, you're about to find your dreams come true with a new musical theater version of the movie. More »
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Years after seeing David Cronenberg's psychotic movie The Brood, I could not get this scene out of my head. Nola has been undergoing experimental "psychoplasmics" therapy with Dr. Raglan (Oliver Reed!), trying to deal with rage over her divorce from doughboy Frank. Using psychoplasmics, she winds up literally giving birth to her rage in the form humanoid creatures who kill people she doesn't like. In this scene, Frank has come to help their real daughter escape from mommy and her scary, fucked up rage babies. I love Samantha Eggar as Nola: She isn't just a horror show chomping on baby goo; she really gives you the sense that she's a messed up lady locked into a surreal custody battle with the bumbling but well-meaning Frank. More »
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David Cronenberg (The Fly, Crash) is in talks to direct the American remake of the Sundance scifi crime movie Timecrimes, according to original director Nacho Vigalondo. Which would be amazing news for Timecrimes as Cronenberg could bring a lot grit and darkness to the American version, as long as it's not as bewildering as eXistenZ. More »
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The movie eXistenZ is many things: a commentary on videogame madness, a chance to see Jennifer Jason Leigh caress a nipple-covered biological game controller, and a seriously weird "what is real" tale that doesn't always work. It's one of David "The Fly" Cronenberg's lesser films for a good reason. And yet there are moments in it that truly shine, such as this one when the squeamish Jude Law decides he needs to get a bioport — a game port in his spine — so he can jack into virtual reality and play Jennifer Jason Leigh's cool game called (what else?) eXistenZ. Unfortunately, he needs an untraceable gameport in the middle of the night, so he visits a local gas station to get one under the table. Who better than Willem Dafoe to shoot that sucker into his spine? [eXistenz] More »
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Critics are always saying that horror movies are about fearing vaginas, but they're wrong. Sure there's vadge imagery aplenty in horror (just watch the run of Alien movies if you don't believe me), but the scariest science horror flicks of the last thirty years are actually about everything that can go wrong with a dude. I'm not just talking about the malfunctioning penis that blows up Tokyo in Legend of the Overfiend. I'm talking about something deeper. And yes, maybe even . . . harder. More »
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A former special effects artist who worked on Cronenberg's The Fly has a new exhibition in New York. The New York Times calls Keith Edmier's collection of plastic sculptures "one of the more bizarre solo shows to come along in a while." His work includes weird-looking mannequins as well as monstrous plants that actually exist in nature, like this one. [New York Times] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=343896&view=rss&microfeed=true If you need a primer — or even a graduate-level course — on David Cronenberg, look no further than the excellent retrospective at UGO. Each movie, even his most obscure, is lovingly detailed and mined for the "most Cronenbergy" moments. [UGO] More »
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Poor David Cronenberg, the artsy B-movie director who brought you Videodrome, Scanners, and A History of Violence. The guy just wants to keep making subversive indie actioners like his recent Eastern Promises, but the world loves him for his early horror work and just wants to keep remaking it into the ground. He told MTV recently that he never watches remakes of his movies, and doesn't plan to see the reboot of head-esploding psychic gorefest Scanners, coming out in 2008. So that got us wondering — what Cronenberg remake would get Cronenberg into theaters? It would have to be The Brood, one of his lesser-known works about a mad psychologist and a bunch of angry killer babies with no anuses. Our pick for director and revamps after the jump. More »
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