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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.
David Cronenberg
Director
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Dr. Bruce Banner is a brilliant but emotionally fractured scientist working on a classified U.S. military project aimed at unlocking cellular regeneration for soldiers exposed to extreme trauma. Funded by the Department of Defense and overseen by General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, the program promises breakthroughs in battlefield survivability—but demands results fast. Bruce’s research is haunted by his past. Years earlier, his father Brian Banner, a former government physicist, conducted illegal experiments on himself while studying radiation-based genetic enhancement. The experiments left Brian unstable, brilliant, and dangerous—eventually landing him in a high-security psychiatric facility. Bruce has spent his life trying to bury that legacy. When Bruce secretly alters the experiment to remove radiation variables—believing gamma exposure to be the missing link—an unauthorized test goes catastrophically wrong. A massive gamma surge floods Bruce’s body. He survives… but something primal awakens. Enter Betty Ross, a biochemist, Bruce’s closest collaborator, and the emotional anchor keeping him human. Betty notices disturbing changes: Bruce’s heart rate spikes under stress, his body temperature rises unnaturally, and his emotional control begins to slip. When a violent outburst during a lab incident results in an explosion that levels the facility, Ross witnesses something impossible—Bruce transforming into a towering, rage-fueled creature before disappearing into the night. Ross immediately classifies Bruce as a hostile asset. Consumed by guilt and obsession, Ross frames the Hulk as a military threat that must be contained or destroyed. He deploys covert strike teams, triggering a relentless manhunt that leaves devastation in its wake. Meanwhile, Brian Banner escapes custody, drawn to gamma radiation like a beacon. Unlike Bruce, Brian embraces what the experiments unlocked inside him. He believes the Hulk is not a curse—but evolution. Brian begins manipulating events from the shadows, engineering situations that force Bruce to transform, pushing him closer to losing control completely. As Bruce flees across borders, battling fear, rage, and isolation, he realizes the horrifying truth: the Hulk is not just anger—it’s survival, trauma, and inherited violence given form. And the more the world hunts him, the stronger it becomes. The film ends with Bruce staring at his reflection after another transformation, trembling as he whispers: “I’m not the monster… but I don’t know how to stop him.”
