David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg’s first feature. Proffered as an educational film from the fictional Canadian Academy of Erotic Enquiry, the film documents telepathic experiments conducted on a group of young people.

Set in a dystopian future where a freak accident has killed all postpubescent women, Crimes of the Future follows Adrian, director of the dermatological clinic that caused the accident.

A high-rise apartment’s residents fall prey to a malignant parasite, compelling them to orgiastic violence. Cronenberg mixes ‘50s sci-fi sensibilities with graphic body horror, resulting in a most uncomfortable watch.

Cronenberg iterates on the premise of his prior film, Shivers, delivering a hybrid vampire/zombie picture that’s just as uncomfortable, but bigger in scope.

Between body horrors Rabid and The Brood, director David Cronenberg made a pit stop in the world of minor-league drag racing. The film follows a crew traveling the northwest circuit. They’re sponsored by a motor-oil company repped by John Saxon. Conflict arises between the team’s drive to win and Saxon’s corrupt motives.

A father traces a series of murders by dwarfish creatures to an unconventional psychotherapy hospital treating his ex-wife.

A corporate scientist (Patrick McGoohan) recruits a destitute man with telepathic powers to hunt a madman (Michael Ironside) with similar powers.

Woods plays a sleazy cable-TV station operator who becomes obsessed with a mysterious, ultra-violent, underground show called Videodrome.

After experiencing a car accident, a director (James Spader) finds himself erotically drawn to a group who stage famous wrecks.

Jason Voorhees is cryogenically frozen in the near future and awakened four centuries later aboard a spaceship.

While searching for information about an orphaned baby, a midwife (Naomi Watts) crosses paths with a soldier (Viggo Mortensen) in the Russian mafia.

In a near-future where surgery has become the new sex, Viggo Mortensen’s body grows novel organs, harvested by partner Léa Seydoux in performance art spectacles.