Sentences with phrase «cronenberg body horror»
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The younger Cronenberg has made a derivative exercise in body horror that plays as little more than low rent Cronenberg pastiche.
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Obviously influenced by his dad David's early work but also showing a strong personal style, Brandon Cronenberg's feature debut is a body - horror satire with a point - a needle point.
It stays far away from mainstream tradition of horror and instead goes for the kind of body horror that was obviously inspired by Brandon Cronenberg's father, David Cronenberg.
The film, which clearly shows David Cronenberg's love for body horror running through the family, revolves around a man (Caleb Landry - Jones) working for a company who inject paying customers with the same viruses as famous celebrities.
The younger Cronenberg is clearly following in his father's footsteps here, delivering a nasty, queasy film loaded with social commentary and body horror.
Obviously influenced by his dad David's early work but also showing a strong personal style, Brandon Cronenberg's feature debut is a body - horror satire with a point — a needle point.
Featuring Howard Shore's hair - raising debut film score, this deeply personal take on the trials of parenthood and the trauma of divorce — which Cronenberg described as his version of Kramer vs. Kramer — establishes the mix of body horror and psychological terror that would soon become the director's trademark.
The master of the specific subgenre called body horror and the man who put out such classics as Dead Ringers and Videodrome, the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg seemingly stepped out of his (dis) comfort zone and delivered one of the best movies of the first decade of this century when he made the film cleverly and multilayeredly called A History of Violence.
Jen and Sylvia Soska «s remake of David Cronenberg's 1977 body horror classic Rabid is set to begin shooting in early 2018.
David Cronenberg's 1977 body horror classic Rabid is receiving a modern remake from the twisted sisters directing duo Jen and Sylvia Soska, which is to start...
Although, the version of this movie where the staff have realistic eyes embedded in metal bodies would tip the film even further into David - Cronenberg - body - horror than it already is.
Body horror is something that David Cronenberg is very well known for -LSB-...]
Another highly anticipated film premiering at Toronto International Film Festival is Brandon Cronenberg's body horror film Antiviral.
Winstead's wide - eyed cringing in the lead doesn't give the film much personality — particularly by comparison with Kurt Russell's shaggy swagger in the 1982 version — and the concepts and visuals that don't come from Carpenter instead come from Ridley Scott's Alien, or David Cronenberg's body - horror films.
The introduction of a mysterious woman (Elizabeth Debicki, always with inappropriately dazzling hair in space) is one of the few strong suits, combining the suspense of this confusing crisis with wince - inducing grotesqueness, which reminisces of the body horror of Tetsuo: The Iron Man or David Cronenberg's eXistenZ.
Brandon Cronenberg has been extremely quiet in regards to his upcoming body horror film Antiviral.
It's arguably David Cronenberg's finest film: Who knew he could do romantic tragedy as confidently as he could gross us out with his signature body horror?
It's not the best film in David Cronenberg's filmography but he was a master exponent of horror, particularly psychological or body horror.
It feels as if the Soska Sisters «remake of David Cronenberg's 1977 body horror classic Rabid has been in the works for ages.
Body - horror hasn't been this elegantly engaging and upsetting since David Cronenberg's heyday, and Ducourno's symbolically lavish, freakishly erotic, female - perspective is a warm embrace.
It's worth noting, too, that Cronenberg's decision to shoe - horn in moments of body horror, presumably in homage to his much more talented father, fall entirely and almost comically flat, while the pervasive lack of momentum ensures that Antiviral fizzles out to an astonishing degree long before it reaches its half - baked climax.
Instead, Pattinson starred in Cosmopolis, adapted from a Don DeLillo book by David Cronenberg, the Canadian maestro of body horror.
Cronenberg is fascinated by the kind of body - horror gross - outs his father perfected back in the days of The Fly.
As a thriller, Black Swan doesn't do much more than graft a few phantom frames onto the periphery of Jean Benoit - Levy's Ballerina, Altman's The Company, or Powell / Pressburger's The Red Shoes — but note how the picture owes its creepy intensity to the sort of social satire - through - body horror popularized by David Cronenberg.
ANTIVIRAL is the directorial debut of David Cronenberg's son, Brandon which harks back to this dad's body - horror roots, and was warmly received at Cannes.
In moments of horror, Garland evokes the gnarly creatures of Alien and Predator and moments of body horror that wouldn't be out of place in a Cronenberg film.
The younger Cronenberg updates the body horror template with explorations of celebrity obsession and piracy issues.
After Cronenberg finished crafting his infamous «body horror» during the mid -»80s, he jettisoned the «goop» that dominated such masterworks as The Fly, yet the same philosophical interrogations remained.
Read on for an introduction to Dr. Zoltán Molnár, a character that seems ideal for Cronenberg's style of exploratory, psychological storytelling and body horror:
With a body horror take on the well - established zombie formula, the creatures in RE6 look something akin to what David Cronenberg would come up with.
The artist combines these seductive devices of brilliance, slipperiness, morphing and repetition with his own interest in the transgressive aesthetics of «body horror», found in manga and anime, as well as cult classics such as Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983).
The gallery also showed work by Phillip Birch, the highlight being his dystopian video sculpture, Interventionist Agent # 2 (Constantine)(2016), which sold to a Belgian private collection for $ 8,500 and takes cues from the science fiction subgenre body horror (think: David Cronenberg).