Silverman ( The Brood, Scanners, Naked Lunch, and eXistenZ), Les Carlson ( Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly, and Camera), Jeremy Irons ( Dead Ringers and M. Cronenberg's animosity towards censorship ("Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.") and the persecution of artists is a recurring theme in his work ( eXistenZ being a prominent example, also inspired by his friend Salman Rushdie).Īctors notably appearing more than once in his filmography include Robert A. In the late '70s/early '80s he often ran afoul of Canadian film review boards (in most of Canada, film ratings are assigned by government agencies at the provincial level), as some went so far as to ban his films in their jurisdictions. If anything, most of his works can be described as transgressive, pretty much universally forcing you out of your comfort zone to deal with the topics he puts on film - and it's rare for a Cronenberg film not to use the human body as an artistic canvas for those topics in one way or another.
His more recent works such as Spider, A History of Violence, and Eastern Promises tend toward less visceral and (relatively) subtler means of disturbing the audience. For instance, Scanners is the Trope Maker for Psychic Nosebleed, and The Fly the Trope Codifier for visual media depictions of Slow Transformation. His Signature Style used to focus on Body Horror and Fan Disservice devices, with the occasional Mind Screw (especially making use of Through the Eyes of Madness). His most famous works include Scanners, the 1986 remake of The Fly (starring Jeff Goldblum), The Brood, Videodrome, eXistenZ, the film version of The Dead Zone, and the film "adaptation" of William S. David Paul Cronenberg CC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director from Toronto.
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