DAVID CRONENBERG'S EARLY WORK (2016)
BRYAN SINGERDAVID CRONENBERG
Cast
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.