The Barretts – especially ‘man of the house’, Daniel - are struggling to put a brave face on their relatively minor first world problems in suburban America and as the family unit weakens an external force begins to prey on their vulnerability, in an attempt to divide them further. The family begins to lose time, their minds and each other. A more than slick enough supernatural horror, with more than enough behind the cushion moments to satiate your modern mainstream jump in find out more...
Transfer (1966), Cronenberg's first film, is a surreal sketch of a doctor and his patient. From the Drain (1967) finds two men in a bathtub, which may be part of a centre for veterans of a future war. Stereo (1969), Cronenberg's first official feature film, stunningly shot in monochrome, concerns telepaths at the Institute for Erotic Enquiry where patients undergo tests by Dr. Luther Stringfellow. In Crimes of the Future (1970) Cronenberg worked in colour and with a find out more...