The films

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The Twilight People

The cheapest Island of Doctor Moreau ever committed to film, and one of the most watchable.

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The Boxer's Omen

The most deranged thing Shaw Brothers ever paid for, and it never slows down to explain itself.

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Brain Damage

A parasite gives a young man euphoric highs in exchange for feeding it brains. Addiction as horror.

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Frankenhooker

A man rebuilds his dead girlfriend from the parts of exploded sex workers. Exactly that stupid, and great.

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Cemetery Man

A cemetery caretaker shoots the returning dead and falls in love repeatedly. Beautiful and deranged.

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Society

A teen suspects his rich family are not human. The finale proves it, wetly.

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Basket Case

$35,000, shot on 42nd Street, and completely charming. The best kind of cheap.

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Rabid

Cronenberg gives Marilyn Chambers a blood-feeding stinger. Montreal falls apart around her.

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Sixty-seven minutes of industrial nightmare. Nothing else looks like it.

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From Beyond

Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs do Lovecraft again. A machine that lets you see what should stay unseen.

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Shivers

Cronenberg's debut. A phallic parasite turns a luxury apartment tower into an orgy of the infected.

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The Brood

Cronenberg turns a divorce into monsters. Rage made flesh, and it is about his own custody battle.

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Scanners

The exploding head made Cronenberg bankable. The film around it is smarter than that scene.

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Videodrome

Long live the new flesh. Cronenberg's prophecy about media, the body, and a chest that opens.