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Infinity Pool | Review

The Dualists: Cronenberg Doubles Down on Class Cliches “Sorrow is concealed in gilded places, and there’s no escaping it,” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in his...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #69. Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool

Infinity Pool NEON break in the new year with a title that we've been discussing on and off for some time now. Brandon Cronenberg's first...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #33. Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool

Infinity Pool As we learned late last year, cinephiles can now expect Cronenberg riches from not one, but three sources. Sprinkling his filmography with a...

Seance [Video Review]

The Girlfriend Experience: Barrett Mines B-Movie Tropes in Hybrid Throwback There’s no greater hotbed of dysfunction and perversity than the homosocial staples of either the...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Simon Barrett’s Seance

A writer on horror items such as Horrible Way to Die (201), You're Next (2011), three segments in the V/H/S projects and another Adam...

Possessor Uncut | Review

The Mind Benders: Cronenberg Returns with Eerie Exercise of Mind/Body Horror Eight years after his 2012 debut Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg returns with Possessor Uncut, an...

Random Acts of Violence | Review

The Violent Bear It Away: Baruchel Turns Murder into Art with Fragmented Debut An exercise which navigates the oft-blurred lines between art and exploitation, actor...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #54. Possessor – Brandon Cronenberg

Possessor Seven years after his 2012 debut Antiviral, Canadian director Brandon Cronenberg returns again to the body horror theme established early on by his father...

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Paper Tiger | Review

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TheyDream | Review

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The Devils (1971) | Review

Sympathy for The Devils: The Suppression of Ken Russell’s...

Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.