Biography: David "Deprave" Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father was a journalist, and his mother was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early age (he wrote and published eerie short stories, thus following his father's path) and for music (playing classical guitar until he was 12), ... show all David "Deprave" Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father was a journalist, and his mother was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early age (he wrote and published eerie short stories, thus following his father's path) and for music (playing classical guitar until he was 12), Cronenberg graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Literature after switching from the science department. He reached the cult status of horror-meister with the gore-filled, modern-vampire variations of "Shivers (1975)" and "Rabid (1977)", following an experimental apprenticeship in independent filmmaking and in Canadian television programs.
Cronenberg gained popularity with the head-exploding, telepathy-based "The Scanners (1981)" after the release of the much underrated, controversial, and autobiographical "Brood (1979)". Cronenberg become a sort of a mass media guru with "The Videodrome (1983)", a shocking investigation of the hazards of reality-morphing television and a prophetic critique of contemporary aesthetics. The issues of tech-induced mutation of the human body and topics of the prominent dichotomy between body and mind were back again in "Dead Zone (1983)" and "The Fly (1986)", both bright examples of a personal filmmaking identity, even if both films are based on mass-entertainment materials: the first being a rendition of a Stephen King best-seller, the latter a remake of famous American horror movie.
With "Dead Ringers (1988)" and "Naked Lunch (1991)", the Canadian director, no more a mere genre movie-maker but a fully realized auteur, got the acclaim of international critics. Such profound statements on modern humanity and ever-changing society are prominent in the provocative "Crash (1996/I)" and in the virtual reality essay of "eXistenZ (1999)", both of which well fared at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals. Cronenberg continues to be an active filmmaker today. hide |
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| An early departure from director David Cronenberg's canon of visceral horror, 1979's Fast Company profiles one of his personal passions, racecars, in a gritty melodrama that also features exciting racetrack footage. Veteran toughguy William Smith is top-billed as a champion drag racer who clashes with the unscrupulous oil-company executive (John Saxon) who sponsors his team. Though lacking the gruesome clinical obsessions of his horror features (Cronenberg admits on the disc's commentary that the film was a tax shelter for its Canadian producers), Fast Company is also fascinated with internal machinery (here, car engines instead of human bodies), and it's easily Cronenberg's most approachable film, with plenty of automotive action alongside the solid performances (the cast includes B-movie queen Claudia Jennings in her final performance). Search keywords
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Categories: 1979, Canada, Drama
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| The tale of Tom Stall. Tom is a loving family man and well-respected citizen of a small Indiana town. But when two savage criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all that media attention has the likes of mobsters showing up at his doorstep, charging that Tom is someone else they've been looking for. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history that no one knows about? Either way, someone's about to find out if there's a history of violence. Search keywords
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Categories: 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, Germany, Thriller, USA
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| Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a black police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the distracted district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful black Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more. Search keywords
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Categories: 2004, Crime, Drama, Germany, Thriller, USA
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| The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to 'share' her ? Search keywords
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Categories: 1988, Canada, Drama, Horror, Thriller, USA
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| Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in an Islamic port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books. Search keywords
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Categories: 1991, Canada, Drama, Fantasy, Japan, Mystery, UK
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Categories: 1999, Fantasy
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Categories: 1999, Fantasy
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| A man's wife is under the care of an eccentric and unconventional psychologist who uses innovative and theatrical techniques to breach the psychological blocks in his patients. When their daughter comes back from a visit with her mother and is covered with bruises and welts, the father attempts to bar his wife from seeing the daughter but faces resistance from the secretive psychologist. Meanwhile, the wife's mother and father are attacked by strangely deformed children, and the man begins to suspect a connection with the psychologist's methods. Search keywords
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Categories: 1979, Canada, Horror, Sci-Fi
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| Scientist Andre Delambre becomes obsessed with his latest creation, a matter transporter. He has varying degrees of success with it. He eventually decides to use a human subject, himself, with tragic consequences. During the transferance, his atoms become merged with a fly, which was accidentally let into the machine. He winds up with the fly's head and one of it's arms and the fly winds up with Andre's head and arm. Eventually, Andre's wife, Helene discovers his secret and must make a decision whether to let him continue to live like that or to do the unthinkable and euthanize him to end his suffering. Search keywords
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Categories: 1958, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, USA
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| Teacher Johnny Smith gets in a horrible accident which forces him into a coma for five years. Once Johnny wakes up, he discovers he has the ability to read a person's life just by making physical contact with them. When the local police find out about Johnny's "powers", they bring him in on a murder case. Soon Johnny's abilities gets him into more trouble then he may be able to handle. Search keywords
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Categories: 1983, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, USA
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| Max leads a television channel, and looks for new material to appear. he discovers - Videodrome. His friend, Nicki fire, goes to recite for Videodrome, and Max is drawn in the forming the basis poster, is used the Videodrome as his front.
Max führt einen Fernsehkanal, und sucht nach neuem Material, um sich zu zeigen. er entdeckt - Videodrome. Seine Freundin, Nicki Brand, geht, um für Videodrome vorzusprechen, und Max wird in den zu Grunde liegenden Anschlag angezogen, der Videodrome als seine Vorderseite verwendet. Search keywords
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Categories: 1983, Canada, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
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| Born Nikolai Luzhin of the mysterious and charismatic Russian is a driver of one of the organized families of crime more well-known than London of Oriental European origin. The family itself is a part of Vory V criminal fraternity Zakone. Headed by Semyon, whose elegant enchantment as the owner of welcome of plush from Trans-Siberian restaurant impeccably masks a cold and brutish nucleus, the fortunas of the family are tested by the volatile son of Semyon and enforcer, Kirill, who is more just clumsy to Nikolai of which to his father himself. But the carefully maintained existence of Nikolai is rattled as soon as he crosses ways in the Time of Christmas with Anna Khitrova, midwife in a hospital of London of the North. Anna is deeply affected by the desperate situation of a young adolescent to whom he dies giving birth to a baby. Anna decides trying to draw the lineage of the baby and relatives. The personal diary of the girl also survives him; it is written in Russian, and Anna looks for answers in him. The mother Helen de Anna not descoroçoa links, but the born care of uncle's impulses of Anna's Russian irritable Stepan. He is right of doing so; investigating in the diary, Anna set free acidentalmente the fury full of the Vory. With Semyon and Kirill to close rows and Anna who holds tight his interrogations, Nikolai inesperadamente billet his divided loyalty. The family holds tight his pressure in him; who can he, or debit, trust? You plant vines much - including own his - they are for a thread like a distressing chain of murder, mistake, and the reward is reflected for the most dark corners both of the family and of London itself.
Nikolai Luzhin nascido dos russo misterioso e carismático é motorista de uma das famílias de crime organizadas mais notórias de Londres de origem européia Oriental. A própria família é parte do Vory V fraternidade criminal Zakone. Encabeçado por Semyon, cujo encanto elegante como o proprietário de boas-vindas do restaurante Trans-siberiano de pelúcia impecavelmente mascara um núcleo frio e brutal, as fortunas da família são testadas pelo filho volátil de Semyon e enforcer, Kirill, quem está mais justamente atado a Nikolai do que ao seu próprio pai. Mas a existência cuidadosamente mantida de Nikolai é chocalhada uma vez que ele cruza caminhos na Época de Natal com Anna Khitrova, parteira em um hospital de Londres do Norte. Anna é profundamente afetada pela situação desesperada de um adolescente jovem que morre dando à luz a um bebê. Anna resolve a tentar traçar a linhagem do bebê e parentes. O diário pessoal da menina também lhe sobrevive; é escrito em russo, e Anna busca respostas nele. A mãe Helen de Anna não descoroçoa ela, mas a prudência de impulsos de tio nascida dos russo irascível Stepan de Anna. Ele tem razão de fazer assim; pesquisando no diário, Anna soltou acidentalmente a fúria cheia do Vory. Com Semyon e Kirill cerrar fileiras e Anna que aperta as suas interrogações, Nikolai inesperadamente acha a sua lealdade dividida. A família aperta o seu aperto nele; quem pode, ou deve, ele confiar? Várias vidas - inclusive o seu próprio - estão por um fio como uma cadeia angustiante de assassinato, engano, e a retribuição reverbera pelas esquinas mais escuras tanto da família como de própria Londres. Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Canada, Crime, Drama, Thriller, UK, USA
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| Dennis Clegg is in the course of his thirties and lives in a home in the half for mentally wrong in London. Dennis, " the Spider " nicknamed by her mother was institutionalised with sharp schizophrenia for about 20 years. He recovered never really, however and as progress of history we know indirectly its more and more fragile catch on reality.
Dennis Clegg est au cours de ses années trente et les vies dans une maison à la moitié pour mentalement mal à Londres. Dennis, "l'Araignée" surnommée par sa mère a été institutionnalisée avec la schizophrénie aiguë depuis environ 20 ans. Il ne s'est rétabli jamais vraiment, cependant et comme les progrès d'histoire nous connaissons indirectement sa prise de plus en plus fragile sur la réalité. Search keywords
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Categories: 2002, Canada, Drama, France, Mystery, Thriller, UK
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