David Cronenberg

The New Flesh as Technological Possession

eXistenZ Is a Gnostic Cosmology: Every Layer Has Its Own God, and None of Them Are the Real One

Dead Ringers Is About What Happens When a Soul Tries to Live as Two Bodies

A Dangerous Method Is the Origin Story of the Shadow, Told by the Man Who Named It

Maps to the Stars Is Hollywood as a Haunted House Nobody Will Admit Is Burning

The Alchemist Who Transformed Wrong

Crimes of the Future Is Cronenberg Performing His Own Autopsy and Calling It the Next Human

Scanners Is a War Between Two Sons of the Same Father Over What the Gift Is For

The Brood Is What Happens When the Shadow Learns to Give Birth

Rabid Is What Happens When You Graft New Flesh Without Asking What It Will Hunger For

Shivers Is a Parasite That Liberates You by Turning Your Body Into a Temple It Owns

Crash Is About People Trying to Feel Something Through a Body That Has Gone Numb