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- adjective Of or pertaining to David Paul Cronenberg (1943-),
Canadian filmmaker andscreenwriter and one of the principal originators of thebody horror genre, or to his works.
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Or am I engaged in an odyssey of nigh-Cronenbergian self-mutilation, as I try to see how quickly I can cripple my drawing hand by grinding out 200 pages of pencil-heavy artwork over ludicrously short timeframes?
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This looks like a crazy, dark, Cronenbergian genre film, and to have it bow in the summer?
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Splice is a weird one; a Cronenbergian body-horror romp from Vincenzo Natali that occupies a strange space between the sexual scrunge of Shivers and Rabid and the surreal mugwump mutations of The Naked Lunch.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010
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Nola Carveth is a patient at the Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmatics, a typically creepy, mysterious and, basically, Cronenbergian medical facility.
Crazies Director Breck Eisner’s Next Horror Remake? David Cronenberg’s Incredible The Brood | /Film 2009
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All of the flirting, namedropping icky anatomy terms, and performing cunnilingus under lamp light with abortion crazies protesting gave us Cronenbergian chills.
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Maybe next time someone does that I go all Cronenbergian on their arse?
Archive 2009-05-01 Glenn Dunks 2009
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There is also something of the Cronenbergian hero in Esther, seeking renewal and change through extreme bodily transformations: she recalls both the grotesque mutilations of Cronenberg's 70s work and the sexual perversity of his adaptation of J.G. Ballard's Crash, in which Rosanna Arquette plays a woman whose crippled legs are marked by vagina-like ridges, sexualized scars.
In My Skin Ed Howard 2008
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There is also something of the Cronenbergian hero in Esther, seeking renewal and change through extreme bodily transformations: she recalls both the grotesque mutilations of Cronenberg's 70s work and the sexual perversity of his adaptation of J.G. Ballard's Crash, in which Rosanna Arquette plays a woman whose crippled legs are marked by vagina-like ridges, sexualized scars.
Archive 2008-12-01 Ed Howard 2008
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Romeroesque, yes; Cronenbergian, certainly... and Boyleish as all hell, but the hodgepodge mostly works.
It's different for everybody Arbogast 2008
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Speaking of Cronenbergian things, I'm told that my Millipede Press book on VIDEODROME is proceeding nicely and now in the photo selection/clean-up stage.
Archive 2007-06-24 2007
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