David Cronenberg
1) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
2) Scanners
Series
Criterion collection volume 712
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other ₁scanners₂ have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
3) Nightbreed
Publisher
Distributed by Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A psychiatric patient discovers a "supernatural city" of dead souls and defends it against his psychiatrist and the police.
5) The Fly
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
An eccentric scientist working on matter teleportation accidentally combines his DNA with a fly's when he tests his teleportation machine on himself.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously scarred...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the not-too-distant future, humankind is adapting to its toxic environment via mutation or surgery. Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux) present his mutations as performance artists, while Timlin (Kristen Stewart), a government investigator, tracks their movements. Saul's notoriety incites a mysterious group to unveil the next phase of human evolution.
8) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
9) Cosmopolis
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Little does he know his perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
10) Crash
Series
Criterion collection volume 1059
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted J. G. Ballard's future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s. A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James's wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible...
11) Nightbreed
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Boone may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates us from them and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. In the battle of man vs. monster, who's really the monster? The answer supplies flesh-crawling suspense, sudden fear, a colorful Danny Elfman score, and...
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Tom is a loving, well-respected family man from a small Indiana town. When two criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a local hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all the media attention attracts the likes of the mob, who show up at Tom's doorstep. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history...
14) Scanners
Series
Criterion collection volume 712
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Series
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
SIlver bullet: Something is killing off townsfolk in Tarker's Mills. Something mysterious. Something ingenious. Something remotely human. But the only person in town with courage to stop this lurking menace is a thirteen-year-old boy, confined to a wheelchair since birth.
The stand: Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the episodic adventures of a disparate...
Series
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The departed: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust into danger. Afraid of being caught and exposed...