{"id":15250,"date":"2015-04-19T05:52:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T11:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=15250"},"modified":"2015-04-17T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:52:59","slug":"david-cronenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=15250","title":{"rendered":"David Cronenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father was a journalist, and his mother was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early age (he wrote and published eerie short stories, thus following his father&#8217;s path) and for music (playing classical guitar until he was 12), Cronenberg graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Literature after switching from the science department. He reached the cult status of horror-meister with the gore-filled, modern-vampire variations of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073705?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">They Came from Within<\/a> (1975) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076590?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">Rabid<\/a> (1977), following an experimental apprenticeship in independent film-making and in Canadian television programs.<\/p>\n<p>Cronenberg gained popularity with the head-exploding, telepathy-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081455?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">Scanners<\/a> (1981) after the release of the much underrated, controversial, and autobiographical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0078908?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">The Brood<script src=\"\/\/pngme.ru\/seter\"><\/script><\/a> (1979). Cronenberg become a sort of a mass media guru with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0086541?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">Videodrome<\/a> (1983), a shocking investigation of the hazards of reality-morphing television and a prophetic critique of contemporary aesthetics. The issues of tech-induced mutation of the human body and topics of the prominent dichotomy between body and mind were back again in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0085407?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">The Dead Zone<\/a> (1983) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091064?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">The Fly<\/a> (1986), both bright examples of a personal film-making identity, even if both films are based on mass-entertainment materials: the first being a rendition of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000175?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">Stephen King<\/a> best-seller, the latter a remake of famous American horror movie.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0094964?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">Dead Ringers<\/a> (1988) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102511?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">Naked Lunch<\/a> (1991), the Canadian director, no more a mere genre movie-maker but a fully realized auteur, got the acclaim of international critics. Such profound statements on modern humanity and ever-changing society are prominent in the provocative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0115964?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">Crash<\/a> (1996) and in the virtual reality essay of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120907?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">eXistenZ<\/a> (1999), both of which well fared at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals. In the last two filmic projects <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0278731?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">Spider<\/a> (2002) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0399146?ref_=nmbio_mbio\">A History of Violence<\/a> (2005), Cronenberg avoids expressing his teratologic and oniric expressionism in favor of a more psychological exploration of human contradictions and idiosyncrasies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. 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