David Cronenberg
Videodrome: Of Cyberpunk and Body Horror
Hello again my futuristic friends. This time I’ll by discussing my views on the 1983 film Videodrome, written and directed by the master of body horror himself, David Cronenberg. Synopsis: When ...
Cronenberg’s Simulacrum and the New Flesh
Body horror is a horror genre that is defined by graphic destruction, degeneration, or transformation of the human form. David Cronenberg is considered the master of this genre, and so it is fascinati...
Biopunk IS Cyberpunk
It bewilders me that people see a strict separation between the subgenres of biopunk and cyberpunk. Cyberpunk fiction has always had a healthy dose of biological technology. For visual media, sound ex...
Strange Days, Cosmopolis, VR and cyberpunk: what we’ve learned in the past 20 years
Warning: This post has spoilers. Is it a common place to say that David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (2012) looks like Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days (1995)? Maybe not. I have spotted a couple of people wh...