On one hand, Crimes of the Future is horror and nightmare; on the other, an essay and an intellectual exercise. It handles both exhaustively and boldly.
28 Days Later remained a surprisingly restrained film, devoting a great deal of time to unhurried scenes of interaction between characters
From the perspective of time, Shivers is a handful of crumbs from the Cronenbergian table of bodily macabre. All the necessary elements are there.
Infinity Pool is demanding and difficult cinema, but at the same time very satisfying, because it allows one to experience nearly boundary-pushing sensations.
With Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg added yet another intriguing and meticulously crafted study of human obsessions and pathologies to his filmography.
This is cinema that stimulates the brain, hits the stomach, and leaves behind unease.
A low-budget film cannot be made any better. The special effects, the screenplay, the cast—every single aspect of Patchwork provides fantastic entertainment.
Fans of the genre should be delighted watching Blood Drive, especially those who feed exclusively on nostalgia and reach only for those really bad VHS films.
Perhaps this is precisely how horror should be understood—fear is a consequence of a well-told story, and dread hides between the lines. Wolf illustrates this very nicely.
The Blackcoat’s Daughter will most appeal not to those viewers who are satisfied with atmosphere more than content, but to enthusiasts of the dark side of human...
