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The Popcorn Auteur


Pretty straightforward. We watch all the movies of famous filmmakers and then discuss anything and everything that happens to interest us about them.

Oct 31, 2022

For our Halloween episode, Paul Kowalski is back to delve into a 2-parter on body horror master David Cronenberg. In part 1, we go from the oddities of his early experimental films to cult classics Scanners and Videodrome. Listen as we explore these wild films and try to reach some consensus on his best body horror film. 

 

Staff Notes/Sources:

https://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/features/14547/

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1678-videodrome-the-slithery-sense-of-unreality

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3739-the-brood-separation-trials

https://soundcloud.com/the-important-cinema-club/229-david-cronenbergs-vanilla-sex-life

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/criticreviews