Collections/October 2024

Directed by David Cronenberg

Gooey, splattery, fleshy nightmares of contagion and transformation, the audacious cinematic transgressions of David Cronenberg are not so much watched as experienced in a visceral, full-body wave of can’t-look-away revulsion and fascination. These definitive body-horror classics—including his commercial breakthrough Scanners and what may be his pop masterpiece, the gloriously gory existential tragicomedy The Fly —suggest that perhaps nothing is more terrifying than our own selves.

6 films — 4 on the Channel, 2 unavailable