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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: An Intro to Body Horror!
When you think of body horror, David Cronenberg likely pops into mind. The director’s earlier horror films cornered the market on gruesome, psychologically twisted transformations and breakdowns of the...
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Gruesome New Image from the Soska Sisters’ Remake of ‘Rabid’ Covers Rue...
Arriving next year is the Jen and Sylvia Soska-directed new take on David Cronenberg’s ’70s horror film Rabid, and the film is featured as the cover story for the new issue of Rue Morgue. The magazine...
View Article[Horror Queers Podcast] ‘Dead Ringers’, David Cronenberg’s Twincest Masterpiece!
If you haven’t been keeping up with the Horror Queers Podcast these last few weeks, you’ve been missing out! Since we launched back in mid-January, we’ve had the pleasure of discussing the Billy/Stu...
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[It Came From the ‘80s] Oscar Winning Makeup and Creature Effects Transformed...
With horror industry heavy hitters already in place from the 1970s, the 1980s built upon that with the rise of brilliant minds in makeup and effects artists, as well as advances in technology. Artists...
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[Toy Fair] Clive Barker’s ‘Nightbreed’ Gets Retro Doll from NECA
NECA promised that their Tom Atkins Night of the Creeps retro doll was just the tip of the iceberg and they weren’t lying. Yet to be announced, they’ve put on display a retro-themed action figure based...
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Death to the Demoness: ‘eXistenZ’ Turns 20!
Nearly a full month after The Matrix arrived in theaters in March of 1999 and kickstarted a trilogy that would shatter box office records, another sci-fi film quietly released in theaters. This one far...
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[Horror Queers] The Inherent Queerness of Clive Barker’s ‘Nightbreed’
Each month in Horror Queers, Joe and Trace tackle a horror film with LGBTQ+ themes, a high camp quotient or both. For lifelong queer horror fans like us, there’s as much value in serious discussions...
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Children of Rage: David Cronenberg’s ‘The Brood’ Turns 40!
Compared to the grand spectacle style of practical effects and tragedy of The Fly, the demented surrealism of Videodrome, or even the sleazy, viral aspect of Rabid, the quiet nature of The Brood tends...
View Article[Horror Queers Podcast] External Wombs and Killer Dwarves in David...
The last few weeks on the Horror Queers Podcast have resulted in plenty of great discussions and hilarious shenanigans. We’ve suffered through the misogyny and bees in Neil LaBute’s 2006 remake of The...
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The Influence of Television in David Cronenberg’s ‘Videodrome’
The main influence of television as a technology has perhaps never been explored more perfectly than in David Cronenberg’s 1983 film, Videodrome. Through the character of Max Renn and his discovery of...
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David Cronenberg’s ‘Crash’ Making Blu-ray Debut With German Release
In the wake of horror films The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome and The Fly, David Cronenberg directed the highly controversial film Crash, an adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s same-named novel from 1973. James...
View Article[Trailer] The Soska Sisters Tackle David Cronenberg With Their Own Version of...
Ahead of the film’s world premiere at FrightFest in August, the trailer for Jen and Sylvia Soska‘s Rabid has arrived today, a remake of the 1977 film from David Cronenberg. Check it out below! Laura...
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[It Came From the ‘80s] Brundlefly Jr. Had Large Shoes to Fill in ‘The Fly II’
With horror industry heavy hitters already in place from the 1970s, the 1980s built upon that with the rise of brilliant minds in makeup and effects artists, as well as advances in technology. Artists...
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The NC-17 Version of David Cronenberg’s ‘Crash’ Has Been Restored in 4K!
We learned earlier this summer that David Cronenberg‘s Crash is finally getting a Blu-ray release (over in Germany), and today brings word that the NC-17 version of the controversial erotic thriller...
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[Maple Syrup Massacre] Vincenzo Natali’s ‘Cube’ Blazed a Trail for Canadian...
Maple Syrup Massacre is a monthly series where Bloody Disgusting dissects the themes, conventions and contributions of new and classic Canadian horror films. The first two installments of Maple Syrup...
View Article[Exclusive] Clip from Jen and Sylvia Soska’s Remake of Cronenberg’s ‘Rabid’...
The Soska Sisters close out 2019 with their own spin on David Cronenberg’s Rabid, releasing in select theaters, digital and On Demand everywhere tomorrow, December 13, 2019. In Rabid, aspiring fashion...
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The Pain Begins! You Can’t Breathe! You Explode! David Cronenberg’s...
“I’m gonna suck your brain dry…” On the anniversary of David Cronenberg’s mind-blowing ‘Scanners,’ the telekinetically charged conspiracy thriller has never seemed more relevant. A director like David...
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Jen and Sylvia Soska’s Remake of David Cronenberg’s ‘Rabid’ Comes to Blu-ray...
The Soska Sisters closed out 2019 with their own spin on David Cronenberg’s Rabid, which released in theaters and On Demand back in December. Up next, it’s coming home. Rabid comes to Blu-ray from...
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The Road to Midian: Clive Barker’s ‘Nightbreed’ Turns 30
After the success of Hellraiser, Clive Barker chose to adapt his 1988 novella Cabal for his sophomore feature. The setup of the novella was ripe for crafting expansive mythology from the ground up, one...
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Unsettling and Startlingly Topical: ‘Rabid’ as Prototypical Cronenberg [Maple...
Maple Syrup Massacre is a monthly series where Bloody Disgusting dissects the themes, conventions and contributions of new and classic Canadian horror films. In the last installment of Maple Syrup...
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