Cosmopolis (pre-production)
A Dangerous Method (2011)
Eastern Promises (2007)
To Each His Own Cinema (segment “At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World”) (2007)
A History of Violence (2005)
Spider (2002)
Short6 (segment “Camera”) (2001)
Camera (short) (2000)
eXistenZ (1999)
Crash (1996)
M. Butterfly (1993)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Friday the 13th: The Series – 1 episode: Faith Healer (1988)
The Fly (1986)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Videodrome (1983)
Scanners (1981)
The Brood (1979)
Fast Company (1979)
Rage (1977)
They Came from Within (1975)
Peep Show (TV series) – 2 episodes: The Lie Chair (1975) The Victim (1975)
Lakeshore (TV short) (1972)
Fort York (TV short) (1972)
In the Dirt (TV short) (1972)
Scarborough Bluffs (TV short) (1972)
Winter Garden (TV short) (1972)
Programme X (TV series) 1 episode: Secret Weapons (1972)
Don Valley (TV short) (1972)
Jim Ritchie Sculptor (TV movie) (1971)
Tourettes (TV movie) (1971)
Letter from Michelangelo (TV movie) (1971)
Crimes of the Future (1970)
Stereo (1969)
From the Drain (short) (1967)
Transfer (short) (1966)
David Cronenberg is the creator of the body horror or venereal horror genre with psychological and highly sexualized horror films like with Shivers, Videodrome, The Fly and Naked Lunch. This style of filmmaking explores people’s fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres. He has been called “the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world.”
Cronenberg stated that while writing the screenplay for William S. Burroughs’ controversial novel Naked Lunch, a book deemed unfilmable, he felt a moment of synergy with the writing style of Burroughs. He felt the connection between his screenwriting style and Burroughs’ prose style was so strong, that he jokingly remarked that should Burroughs pass on, “I’ll just write his next book.”
Had a straight adaptation of the book be made, Cronenberg said it was “cost 100 million dollars and be banned in every country in the world”.
Cronenberg has said that his films should be seen “from the point of view of the disease”, and that, for example, he identifies with the characters in Shivers after they become infected with the anarchic parasites. Disease and disaster, in Cronenberg’s work, are less problems to be overcome than agents of personal transformation. Similarly, in Crash (1996), people who have been injured in car crashes attempt to view their ordeal as “a fertilizing rather than a destructive event”.
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