October 2024

The Fly — New Buzz on an Old Theme

For nearly a decade, Canadian screenwriter-director David Cronenberg has been hailed for ambitious, intelligent, biologically oriented horror films. Cronenberg’s first two features, They Came From Within (1976) and Rabid (1977), were acclaimed for their wild energy and audacity, but it was not until he teamed with cinematographer Mark Irwin, CSC that his oeuvre began receiving serious attention for its style and sensuous imagery. Their horror feature collaborations — The Brood (1979), Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1982) and The Dead Zone (1983) — furnish a corner of the genre that’s entirely their own; taken together, they constitute an impressively mature, occasionally satirical study of how the world around us, or just around the corner,...more