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.

Of his characters ' transformations, Cronenberg said, " But because of our necessity to impose our own structure of perception on things we look on ourselves as being relatively stable.

As a result, Cronenberg has said, Scanners was a nightmare to make.

Whereas the 1958 original was followed by two sequels, Cronenberg has said that the stories in his films have definitive beginnings and endings, and he has never considered making a sequel to one of his own films, although others have made sequels to Cronenberg films, including Scanners ( 1981 ).

Director Cronenberg said he identified with the residents after they were infected ; and shows the swinging sterility of " normal " life mercilessly caricatured through the characterisation of the bland, rich, young professionals inhabiting the apartment block, and the hard-sell estate agent's sales pitch from Merrick ( Ronald Mlodzik ), which accompanies the opening titles.

" Not only did this high profile attack make it more difficult for Cronenberg to obtain funding for his subsequent movies, but Cronenberg later said Fulford's article also resulted in him being kicked out of his apartment in Toronto due to his landlord's inclusion of a " morality clause " in the lease.

Cronenberg elaborated further when interviewed by Empire in 2012: " Well, I did talk to Fox, because my agent found out that they were approaching people to do a remake of my film.

Because of the oddities of Canada's film financing structures at the time, it was necessary to begin shooting with only two weeks ' pre-production work, before the screenplay had been completed, with Cronenberg writing the script between 4 a. m. and 7 a. m. each morning throughout shooting.

According to a David Cronenberg interview on the DVD, The Dead Zone was filmed during a relentless deep freeze in Southern Ontario which lasted for weeks, creating an authentic atmosphere of subzero temperatures and icy snow-packed terrain, which made for great natural shooting locations in spite of its being almost too cold for cast and crew to tolerate at times.

Pogue's script also featured a baglady being murdered by Geoff in an alley, and Cronenberg revised this so that the woman was killed by vomit-drop ( as with DeWitt's murder at the end of the original draft ) rather than Geoff cutting her throat accidentally ( however, Cronenberg never filmed his version of this sequence, which was written out of the final shooting script ).

Cronenberg condemned the censorship of the climactic scene, in which Eggar's character gives birth to one of the monsters and starts tenderly licking it clean: " I had a long and loving close-up of Samantha licking the fetus when the censors, those animals, cut it out, the result was that a lot of people thought she was eating her baby.

Outside Canada, Del Grande is probably best known as the ConSec scanner in the infamous " head explosion " scene in the David Cronenberg movie Scanners.

A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.

Cronenberg has collaborated with composer Howard Shore on all of his films since The Brood ( 1979 ), ( see List of noted film director and composer collaborations ) with the exception of The Dead Zone ( 1983 ), which was scored by Michael Kamen.

Suschitzky was the director of photography for The Empire Strikes Back, and Cronenberg remarked that Suschitzky's work in that film " was the only one of those movies that actually looked good ", which was a motivating factor to work with him on Dead Ringers.

In the October 2011 edition of Rue Morgue, Cronenberg stated that he has written a companion piece to his 1986 remake of The Fly, which he would like to direct if given the chance.

In the 1992 book Cronenberg on Cronenberg, he revealed that The Brood was inspired by events that occurred during the unraveling of his first marriage, which caused both Cronenberg and his daughter Cassandra a great deal of turmoil.

Additionally, one of M. Butterflys Broadway producers, David Geffen, spear-headed a film version of the play, which was directed by David Cronenberg.

This is the only Cronenberg film since The Brood ( 1979 ) for which Howard Shore did not serve as composer.

There was also a remake of the same name in 1986 directed by David Cronenberg, which itself had a sequel, 1989's The Fly II.

Priest wrote the tie-in novel to accompany the 1999 David Cronenberg movie eXistenZ, which contains themes of the novels A Dream of Wessex and The Extremes.

Fnac also holds multiple " forums " throughout the year, which are opportunities for customers to have open dialogue with people such as Pedro Almodóvar, George Lucas, and David Cronenberg, discussions with authors including Paul Auster, Pierre Bourdieu, and Françoise Giroud in addition to exclusive concerts.

In 2006, Cohen was included in the Masters of Horror TV anthology, which also included-but was not limited to-writers and directors as diverse as Dario Argento, Clive Barker, John Carpenter, Richard Chizmar, Don Coscarelli, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, Joe Dante, Guillermo Del Toro, Ernest Dickerson, Stuart Gordon, James Gunn, Sam Hamm, Tom Holland, Tobe Hooper, Lloyd Kaufman, Mary Lambert, John Landis, Joe R. Lansdale, Bentley Little, H. P.

The first of his features for which Cronenberg did not originate the screenplay, Fast Company brought Cronenberg into contact with cinematographer Mark Irwin, art director Carol Spier, sound editor Bryan Day, and film editor Ronald Sanders, all of whom became regular crew members on his films.

Since then, his illustrative talents in comics have included The Sandman, American Freak, Batman, Witchcraft: Le Terreur, The Spectre, and A History of Violence, which was later made into a movie directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Cronenberg was the son of Esther ( born Sumberg ), a musician, and Milton Cronenberg, a writer and editor.

The book was considered " unfilmable " and Cronenberg acknowledged that a straight translation into film would " cost 100 million dollars and be banned in every country in the world ".

In 2005, Cronenberg would say that he was upset that Paul Haggis had chosen the same name for his Academy Award winning film Crash, feeling it was " stupid " and " very disrespectful.

In the late 1990s, Cronenberg was announced as director of a sequel to another Verhoeven film, Basic Instinct, but this also fell through.

In 1999, Cronenberg was inducted onto Canada's Walk of Fame and was awarded with the Silver Bear Award at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.

Also in 2006, Cronenberg was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars.

The following year Cronenberg was named an honorary patron of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin.

Wuppertal in its present borders was formed in 1929 by merging the early industrial cities of Barmen and Elberfeld with Vohwinkel, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg, Langerfeld, and Beyenburg.

The film was directed by David Cronenberg and starred Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris.

Holm has also appeared in two David Cronenberg films, Naked Lunch ( 1991 ) and eXistenZ ( 1999 ) and was Harold Pinter's favourite actor, the playwright once stating: " He puts on my shoe, and it fits!

Its tone, look, and feel held similarities to the original film, but was more influenced by the works of David Lynch and David Cronenberg than of the German Expressionists.

Most of his films have been at least partially financed by Telefilm Canada, and Cronenberg is a vocal supporter of government-backed film projects, saying " Every country needs system of government Grant ( money ) | grants in order to have a national cinema in the face of Hollywood ".

* David Cronenberg Profile by The New York Times Magazine ( September 2005 )

*" Mind Over Matter: David Cronenberg Interviewed " by Gavin Smith.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

* Stereo ( film ), a 1969 film by David Cronenberg

* Videodrome ( 1983 ), written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods and Deborah Harry

* Spider ( film ), a 2002 psychological thriller by David Cronenberg

eXistenZ is a 1999 body horror-science fiction film by Canadian director David Cronenberg.

Category: Films directed by David Cronenberg

After starring in films directed by Andrew Niccol, Clint Eastwood and David Cronenberg, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1999 for his performance in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley.

The first film he scored that was not directed by Cronenberg was Martin Scorsese's After Hours.

Following After Hours, he scored The Fly ( 1986 ), again directed by Cronenberg.

During 1993, he composed the scores for M. Butterfly ( another collaboration with Cronenberg ), Philadelphia ( his second collaboration with Jonathan Demme ), and Mrs. Doubtfire, directed by Chris Columbus.

* Dead Ringers ( film ), a 1988 film directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jeremy Irons as identical twin gynecologists

* The Dead Zone ( film ), a 1983 film adaption of the novel, starring Christopher Walken and directed by David Cronenberg

Scanners is a 1981 science-fiction action horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O ' Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan.