Stereo (1969)

Stereo (1969)
Rating: ★★★½
Mar 15, 2013Psychic Powers Experiments
The very first film from David Cronenberg. An incredibly experimental work even today, which consists of people wandering the halls of a university and the soundtrack of voices discussing psychic powers experiments in a dryly funny parody of an academic paper. Fascinatingly oblique

Crimes of the Future (1970)

Crimes of the Future (1970)
Rating: ★★★½
Mar 8, 2015Strange Future Mutations and Fetishes
The second film from David Cronenberg. Despite the SF title, this is more a work of arthouse surrealism where Cronenberg spends the film documenting strange behaviours in an hilarious deadpan tone that mimics a scientific paper

Shivers (1975)

Shivers (1975)
Rating: ★★★★
Aug 17, 2000Sexual Fetishism Parasites
David Cronenberg's first commercial release, a vivid work about parasites that turn the residents of an apartment building into sexual fetishists. Cronenberg has set out to shock while beneath that he creates fascinating metaphors about sex