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One of the greatest and most unique filmmakers currently living is Canada’s proud son, David Cronenberg, who is no doubt most known today because of the species of killer creature he inspired in the Adult Swim cartoon Rick & Morty. There’s more to Cronie than just gross-out monsters though, he’s one of the most cerebral artists in the business who, over the last 48 years, has made 20 feature length films, all varying in genre and technique.
Before the various creatures from the Guardians of the Galaxy films, James Gunn already explored the inhuman with Slither. Strongly influenced by the master of creature features, David Cronenberg, Slither starts with leech-like monsters similar as we saw in Brain Damage, but also touches on the Zombie genre, as these leech-like creatures use humans as hosts, absorbing their minds.
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monsters invade the hospital, film still from the movie directed by denis villeneuve and david cronenberg with art direction by salvador dali
Decades before eulogizing his second wife in The Shrouds, Cronenberg issued a far less tender good-bye to his first. Inspired by the (and, hilariously, his irritation with the sentimental reconciliations of Kramer vs. Kramer), The Brood is a bilious divorce movie for the ages. Samantha Eggar plays a disturbed woman who brings monsters to a custody battle, manifesting her resentment as pint-size rage babies that threaten her daughter, her ex-husband, and anyone else who gets on her bad side. Of course, it’s Cronenberg who’s really channeling his anger. Much more disturbing than the scenes of pint-size assassins wreaking havoc (or emerging bloody from a birth sack in the Grand Guignol climax) are the toxic emotions that inspired them. Plenty of his movies reach a climactic stage of post-humanity. This one remains uncomfortably human, at least in the unflattering post-breakup hostilities it expresses.
