As his new film Crimes of the Future is released, Alex Denney offers a brief introduction to the Canadian director’s mind-boggling oeuvre
, his mirthlessly pornographic rendering of JG Ballard’s novel of the same name, was subjected to a relentless ‘ban this filth’ campaign by theBut it’s Cronenberg’s willingness to meet the taboo on its own terms that gives his body-horror films their transgressive power. In fact, ‘body horror’ is an odd term for the work of an artist who seems fundamentally ambivalent about the transformations his characters undergo.
For the uninitiated, we looked at five essential films in a mind-boggling oeuvre that is, to quote Léa Seydoux in
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