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    Cronenberg films: what do they do to you?

    Excellent points Damin. It IS interesting that Cronenberg seems to dislike pretending to be in other geographic locations then the ones he's actually shooting in. I hope some interviewer asks his opinion on this. And when I meant by 'major films' was that those were the ones most likely to...
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    Cronenberg films: what do they do to you?

    The Dead Ringers commentary mentions that the Mantle twins as boys were closely modeled on Cronenberg when he was a child. I know that he was fascinated by medical facts as a boy. I think this quote from him sums up things quite nicely: "It's my conceit that perhaps some diseases perceived...
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    Cronenberg films: what do they do to you?

    I heard Cronenberg was set to direct Total Recall at one point, even wrote a draft of the script...man what I wouldn't give to read it!
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    Cronenberg films: what do they do to you?

    It's funny I should stumble across this today. Yesterday I just watched Scanners for the first time, and the week before I received the now OOP Criterion DVD of Dead Ringers. Certainly the 'body-images' disturb me, they've been disturbing me ever since I was 12 (my mother deliberately taped...
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