Cronenberg Filmography: how one Toronto director changed filmmaking and turned actors into megastars

Cronenberg Filmography: how one Toronto director changed filmmaking and turned actors into megastars

By Katrina Onstad | December 3, 2013

By Katrina Onstad | 12/03/2013

The Cronenberg Filmography: How one Toronto director turns actors into megastars — Cronenberg on the set of A Dangerous Method with Viggo Mortensen (Image: Sony Pictures Classics and Entertainment One)

Over a 40-year obsession with mutants, fetishists and freaks, David Cronenberg has transformed from avant-garde boy wonder into one of Canada’s most famous director (you can read our feature profile of him here). Below, a film-by-film guide that reveals how Cronenberg influenced filmmaking the world over—by turning actors into megastars, challenging ratings boards and earning Oscar nominations.

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Rabid, 1977 — (Image: FRL)

Fast Company, 1979 — (Image: FRL)

Scanners, 1981 — (Image: Photofest)

Videodrome, 1983 — (Image: Photofest)

Dead Zone, 1983 — (Image: Photofest)

The Fly, 1986 — (Image: 20th Century Fox)

Dead Ringers, 1988 — (Image: FRL)

Naked Lunch, 1991 — (Image: FRL)

Crash, 1996 — (Image: FRL)

eXistenz, 1999 — (Image: Photofest)

Spider, 2002 — (Image: Photofest)

A History of Violence, 2005 — (Image: FRL)

Eastern Promises, 2007 — (Image: Photofest)

A Dangerous Method, 2011 — (Image: Sony Pictures Classics and Entertainment One)

Cosmopolis, 2012 — (Image: Photofest)

Maps to the Stars, 2014

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