Tag Archives: Cronenberg on Sex and Gender

First published May 23, 2019 at Cinema76.com We are going back in time a couple of years for this installment of the Cronenberg series, but I wanted to visit his first feature film which I had not seen previously, Shivers from 1975. In the book Cronenberg on Cronenberg the director mentions that he believes Shivers is the first Canadian made horrorContinueContinue reading “Cronenberg on Sex and Gender: Shivers (1975)”

First published at Cinema76.com Among other things, The Brood is a film about psychiatric care, abuse, trauma, family, and a strained marriage. The film is about a husband and father named Frank Carveth (Art Hindle) whose wife Nola (Samantha Egger) is away from the family undergoing deep psychiatric treatment with Dr. Hal Raglan who is usingContinueContinue reading “Cronenberg on Sex and Gender: The Brood (1979)”