What is the best David Cronenberg film?

By YPB TeamNov 3

Early low-budget shockers sit beside polished crime dramas and adaptations of Burroughs and Ballard. Pick the one that got under your skin.

1
The Fly
A 1986 remake starring Jeff Goldblum as a scientist fused with a fly during a teleportation experiment; it won the Academy Award for Best Makeup.
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Dead Ringers
A 1988 psychological thriller with Jeremy Irons playing identical twin gynecologists in Toronto.
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3
Rabid
A 1977 horror film starring Marilyn Chambers as a woman who develops a blood-feeding organ after experimental surgery.
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4
Cosmopolis
A 2012 adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel, with Robert Pattinson as a billionaire crossing Manhattan in a limousine.
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5
Shivers
Cronenberg's 1975 commercial feature debut, in which a parasite spreads through a Montreal high-rise apartment complex.
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6
Videodrome
A 1983 film starring James Woods as a Toronto TV executive who stumbles onto a broadcast signal that causes hallucinations.
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7
Maps to the Stars
A 2014 Hollywood satire for which Julianne Moore won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival.
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8
Fast Company
A 1979 drag-racing drama starring William Smith and Claudia Jennings, set on the North American racing circuit.
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9
eXistenZ
A 1999 science-fiction thriller with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jude Law inside an organic virtual-reality game.
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10
Spider
A 2002 psychological drama starring Ralph Fiennes as a mentally ill man revisiting his London childhood, adapted from Patrick McGrath's novel.
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11
Eastern Promises
A 2007 crime film set among the Russian mob in London, which earned Viggo Mortensen an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
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12
Crash
A 1996 adaptation of J. G. Ballard's novel about people aroused by car crashes; it received a Special Jury Prize at Cannes.
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13
The Shrouds
A 2024 drama starring Vincent Cassel as a businessman who invents a technology to watch the dead decompose in their burial shrouds.
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14
The Dead Zone
A 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's novel, with Christopher Walken as a man who wakes from a coma with psychic visions.
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15
A Dangerous Method
A 2011 drama about Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, starring Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightley.
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16
Crimes of the Future
A 2022 science-fiction film with Viggo Mortensen as a performance artist who displays his newly grown organs, sharing only its title with Cronenberg's 1970 film.
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17
The Brood
A 1979 horror film with Oliver Reed as a psychotherapist whose experimental treatment of Samantha Eggar's character has monstrous results.
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18
M. Butterfly
A 1993 adaptation of David Henry Hwang's play, with Jeremy Irons as a French diplomat in love with a Peking opera singer.
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19
Scanners
A 1981 science-fiction thriller about telepaths with destructive powers, known for its exploding-head scene.
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20
Naked Lunch
A 1991 adaptation of William S. Burroughs's novel, starring Peter Weller as an exterminator drawn into the hallucinatory Interzone.
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21
A History of Violence
A 2005 thriller with Viggo Mortensen as a small-town diner owner whose past surfaces after he kills two robbers.
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