David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases, and the intertwining of the psychological, physical, and technological.
His films have won numerous awards, including the Special Jury Prize for Crash at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, a unique award that is distinct from the Jury Prize as it is not given annually, but only at the request of the official jury, who in this case gave the award "for originality, for daring, and for audacity"
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontations. Films that make you confront aspects of
your
own
life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't
make an
artful film.
- David Cronenberg
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
A man awakens from a coma to discover he has psychic abilities and tries to prevent a series of disasters predicted by his visions.
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another, and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
A young woman develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood-thirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a city-wide epidemic.
A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him down before they become too dangerous.
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
A mentally disturbed man takes a haunting trip down memory lane, trying to unravel the truth about a traumatic childhood event.
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling, who turns out to be a man in disguise.
A drag racer's life is turned upside down after a near fatal car crash, leaving him semi-paralyzed, forcing him to deal with his inner demons and personal life.
Experiments in biotechnology lead to the development of a telepathic group of humans.
A dermatologist investigating a sexually-transmitted parasite discovers his own past as well as the future of mankind.
A man struggles to cope with his solitary life as he walks through the empty hallways of an apartment building.
Set in the future, where humans have become dependent on artificial organs, a man and a woman discover they are involved in a mystery which has dire consequences for the future of humanity.