movie poster for DAVID CRONENBERG'S EARLY WORK

Flicks ID

19440

Cert

15

Running time

145 mins

Language

Format

DVD

DAVID CRONENBERG'S EARLY WORK (2016)

BRYAN SINGERDAVID CRONENBERG

Plot

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 larger budget, wherewe find the House of Skin clinic director (Ronald Mlodzik, returning from Stereo) searching forhis mentor, Antoine Rouge, who has disappeared following a catastrophic plague.