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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I'm not a huge fan of Cronenberg's more recent stuff but I LOVE what he was doing in the 70s-80s. The more I think about it, his 5 movie run from Shivers through to Videodrome might be the most impressive in all horror films. Even compared with other genre heavyweights like Argento, Carpenter and Romero (even if they occasionally made better individual films). But Shivers-Rabid-Brood-Scanners-Videodrome is a ridiculously good run. Dead Zone wasn't bad but you could see he was starting to lose his footing a bit and his output from then became a bit more patchy.
(I'm conveniently ignoring Fast Company, which was pretty crap and not a horror film)
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I didn’t even know/remember that Cronenberg did Dead Zone.
Totally different kind of horror movie from the ones you mentioned though. Less dysmorphic insanity and more ... uh... flashbacks of rape and Chris Walken getting migraines. Not up his alley. Don’t blame him for not nailing that.
Anywho, that movie ANNIHILATION had some shit in it that makes Cronenberg’s body horror seem almost obsolete to me.
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