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David Paul Cronenberg (born 15 March 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases, and the intertwining of the psychological, physical, and technological. Cronenberg is best known for exploring these themes through sci-fi horror films such as Shivers (1975), Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), and The Fly (1986). However, he has also directed dramas, psychological thrillers, and gangster films. Cronenberg's films have polarized critics and audiences; he has earned critical acclaim and sparked controversy for his depictions of gore and violence. The Village Voice called him "the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world". His films have won numerous awards, including the Special Jury Prize for Crash at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, a unique award that is distinct from the Jury Prize as it is not given annually but only at the request of the official jury, who in this case gave the award "for originality, for daring, and for audacity". From the 2000s to the 2020s, Cronenberg collaborated on several films with Viggo Mortensen, including A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), A Dangerous Method (2011) and Crimes of the Future (2022). Seven of his films were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or, the most recent being The Shrouds (2024), which was screened at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Cronenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Victor Fries is a brilliant but reclusive cryogenic engineer at GothCorp, whose only connection to humanity is his vibrant wife, Nora. When Nora is diagnosed with a rare and incurable neurodegenerative disease, Victor convinces his boss, the ambitious Ferris Boyle, to let him use experimental equipment to put her into stasis (cryogenic freezing) until a cure is found. The film focuses on Victor's mental deterioration as he spends days and nights talking to Nora's glass tube, while GothCorp decides to cut funding. The climax is not a fight against Batman, but the brutal moment when Boyle attempts to pull the plug on Nora, resulting in the accident that alters Victor's DNA. The third act is a "silent massacre" where a transformed Victor, unable to feel heat, seeks revenge and the resources to save his wife, crossing paths with a shadow watching over Gotham.
