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TheEvilDog:
Rabid was the first David Cronenberg film I saw. And while I'm not a fan of his work, Rabid is one of those films I can enjoy watching late at night. Just the right side of disturbing without being sickening.
ackblom12:
You might might enjoy his son's film, Antiviral. He apparently shares his fathers fascination with infection, but he takes it in a completely different direction. Instead of working off of our fears of infection and sex, he equates sharing of infection as a form of intimacy and explores our obsession with celebrity culture through it.
ackblom12:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989):
Talk about a niche of a niche. Tetsuo is a low budget Surrealist Cyberpunk Horror film by Director Shinya Tsukamoto. It's kind of like if David Lynch and David Cronenberg took a lot of acid and had a love child. There's very little dialogue in the movie and in fact, not a single character is ever actually named. The story follows a businessman and his wife who accidentally run over and kill a character referred to as 'The Metal Fetashist'. Shortly afterwards, the businessman begins to start sprouting metal from his skin and begins a horrible transformation. Tsukamoto utilizes some interesting camera work and almost overpowering music for the atmosphere of his film and I think it turns out wonderfully. It's also kind of impossible to talk about this film without mentioning the scene where a woman is fucked to death with a Drill Penis. Or the dream where the businessman is anally raped by a woman with a prehensile drill penis. There's... there's a lot of phallic and sexual symbolism in this movie.
It also features what I consider to be one of the most frightening on-foot chase scenes ever filmed.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKvZjdzZELQ
It has two sequels called Tetsuo: The Body Hammer and Tetsuo: The Bullet Man which I'll be getting to at a later date. They're not direct sequels, but simply share similar narrative themes and visual aesthetics.
ackblom12:
House (1977):
Directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, this is a very very strange film. It's a pretty basic japanese Vengeful Ghost story that is just so incredibly bizarre, goofy and fun that it's practically impossible to be scared by it. It's creative, ridiculous, experimental and just... I mean what else am I supposed to say about a movie that has characters with names like Gorgeous (she's pretty), Kung-Fu (she knows kung-fu) and Melody (Yes, she's good with music) and scenes where someone is attacked by feather pillows and mattresses, eaten by a piano, or sexually assaulted by a floating head. The Special FX are ridiculous and cartoonish, the acting is wonderfully ridiculous and there's just a lot to love here. If nothing else, you just really need to experience this movie.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLu6tySol7Q
ackblom12:
Antiviral (2009):
David Cronenberg's son, Brandon Cronenberg directs this entry. Much like his father, Brandon has a fascination with the concept of infections. The direction he takes this is equally disturbing, but very very different though. Rather than going into our fears of infection and sexuality, he instead decides to look at the sharing of contagions as a form of intimacy (almost sexual in nature) and uses it to examine our relationship with celebrity culture, up to and including whether or not celebrities are people. It focuses a lot on body horror, but rather than the gore and metamorphosis that BH tends to lean towards, it instead focuses on the disgust and dread that the society itself invokes in the viewer when you see someone purposefully inject themselves with Herpes, or the flu, or even life threatening illnesses in order to add some kind of meaning to their lives through the shared intimacy of infection these people they idolize, who are seen as something more (and less) than human, have had. It's beautifully shot and kind of follows the narrative styles of a Noir film. I highly recommend it.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvJUMqIwPn0
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