I've watched a lot of this guy's movies. I admit I haven't seen much of the early early stuff, but everything else I've seen is great. Favorite probably is Videodrome, followed by The Fly remake and Dead Ringers. Seems like a nice guy, too.

Unquestionably NOT CRAP. His earlier horror movies genuinely unsettle, but he really came into his own after Scanners I believe. Videodrome, although patchy in parts, is eminently watchable. The Fly is a masterpiece of a remake, but it's with Dead Ringers, Crash and Spider that I think he's hit the height of his craft.


He was offered Flashdance and Top Gun you know! What I would have paid to see Tom Cruise launch missiles out of his navel!

Oh!

NOT CRAP in the slightest!

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One of my favorites, particularly for Crash, Videodrome, and Naked Lunch. Oh, and Shivers, Rabid, and Scanners. I don't think I've come close to disliking any of his movies, and I'm pretty sure eXistenz (or whatever it's called) is the only one I haven't seen.

Still, NOT CRAP! No waffle factor at all. A while back, Blue Underground released an edition of Fast Company with Cronenberg's short films on a second disc. This is very much worth picking up.

ENCEE.

Rimbaud III wrote:He was offered Flashdance and Top Gun you know! What I would have paid to see Tom Cruise launch missiles out of his navel!

WTF!

NOT CRAP

Not Crap. Anyone else seen the Criterion Edition DVD of Videodrome with the Betamax case and Videodrome scrawled on the side?

awesome.

i say he doesn't make good movies, he makes interesting movies that are sort of bad, and usually the interesting outweighs the bad. i gave him a not crap because i liked existenz, naked lunch, and videodrome. but crash was rather dumb and spider rather boring (then again i watched the latter while a bit distracted -- not good for an atmosphere-oriented movie). i feel like maybe i should wait until i've seen dead ringers, an early one (the brood?), and maybe the fly before i can really definitively vote on this dude.

i give him credit for being interesting, for sure, and the whole "body horror" thing is something which, well, someone's got to do that.

trilonaut wrote:i give him credit for being interesting, for sure, and the whole "body horror" thing is something which, well, someone's got to do that.

This is the most succinct, on the money description of Cronenberg I've read.

NC!WF:eXistenz.