Butterfly, Naked Lunch) with varied results, which would pay dividends in the following decade. The ’90s saw Cronenberg experimenting with an expanded dramatic palette ( M. And Videodrome seemed to best express Cronenberg’s vision of how the self can be utterly compromised by sinister forces. ![]() The Fly was the rare excellent remake and had the good sense to parade Jeff Goldblum around in his underwear (and vomit). The Dead Zone contributed to a hot streak of Stephen King adaptations happening across the industry, following Carrie and The Shining. And in the ’80s, Cronenberg came into his own: Scanners was all over horror magazines for its legendary exploding head sequence. Rabid and The Brood made more of a squeamish splash with general audiences. ![]() ![]() His first two films, Stereo and Crimes of the Future, are little-seen, ready for Cronenberg fans to re-discover and find that his obsession with pushing the boundaries of science, sexual perversity, and our oh-so-tenuous grasp on our physical self was present from the beginning. Over the course of six decades, David Cronenberg has built a bloody, slimed-over, and warped throne of flesh and bone to sit upon as the king of body horror. (Photo by New Line, 20th Century Fox Film Corp./courtesy Everett Collection) All 21 David Cronenberg Movies Ranked by Tomatometer
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