Censors do what only psychotics do... they confuse reality with illusion.
A friend of mine saw 'Videodrome', said he really liked it, and added, you know someday they're going to lock you up.
[Suicide] ...it's probably the only way we can give our death a meaning, because otherwise it's completely arbitrary.
I don't have a moral plan. I'm a Canadian."
Cronenberg is a talented, and in my opinion underated Canadian director. Directing films such as Shivers, Rabid, Naked Lunch and Dead Ringers, we see Cronenberg's unimitable style. He gives us an insight into his world of the terrifying and truly surreal. Although many of Cronenberg's films have a slightly tacky and dated feel to them (mainly due to the virtually non-existant Canadian film industry) you cannot ignore his true talent and skill for grabbing the audience and involving then fully in the movie.
David Cronenberg: Filmography
This list includes his early short films, those he made in France in 1971, his TV work and his commercials.
- 1966 Transfer
- 1967 From the Drain
- 1969 Stereo -- director, producer, screenwriter, director of photography, editor
- 1970 Crimes of the Future -- director,
producer, screenwriter, director of photography, editor
- 1971 Jim Ritchie Sculptor -- for Canadian TV
- 1971 Letter from Michelangelo -- for Canadian TV
- 1971 Tourettes -- for Canadian TV
- 1972 Don Valley -- for Canadian TV
- 1972 Fort York -- for Canadian TV
- 1972 Lakeshore -- for Canadian TV
- 1972 Winter Garden -- for Canadian TV
- 1972 Scarborough Bluffs -- for Canadian TV
- 1972 In the Dirt -- for Canadian TV
- 1972 Programme X: Secret Weapons -- for Canadian TV
- 1975 Shivers (aka They Came from Within; aka The Parasite Murders -- director, screenwriter
- 1975 Peep Show: The Victim -- for Canadian TV
- 1975 Peep Show: The Lie Chair -- for Canadian TV
- 1976 The Italian Machine -- teleplay for Canadian TV
- 1976 Rabid -- director, screenwriter
- 1979 Fast Company -- director, screenwriter
- 1979 The Brood -- director, screenwriter
- 1980 Scanners -- director, screenwriter
- 1982 Videodrome -- director, screenwriter
- 1983 The Dead Zone -- director
- 1985 Into the Night -- actor
- 1986 The Fly -- director, screenwriter, actor
- 1987 Friday the 13th: Episode 12 - Faith Healer -- for Paramount TV
- 1988 Dead Ringers -- director, producer, screenwriter
- 1989 Nightbreed -- actor
- 1989 Hot Showers -- commmercial for Ontario Hydro
- 1989 Laundry -- commmercial for Ontario Hydro
- 1989 Cleaners -- commmercial for Ontario Hydro
- 1989 Timers -- commmercial for Ontario Hydro
- 1990 Bistro -- commmercial for Cadbury Caramilk
- 1990 Surveillance -- commmercial for Cadbury Caramilk
- 1990 Transformation #1 -- commmercial for Nike
- 1990 Transformation #2 -- commmercial for Nike
- 1990 Transformation #3 -- commmercial for Nike
- 1990 Transformation #4 -- commmercial for Nike
- 1990 Transformation #5 -- commmercial for Nike
- 1990 Scales of Justice: Regina Versus Horvath -- for Canadian TV
- 1990 Scales of Justice: Regina Versus Logan -- for Canadian TV
- 1991 Naked Lunch -- screenplay, director
- 1991 Maniac Mansion: Idella's Breakdown -- for Canadian TV
- 1992 Blue -- actor
- 1992 Naked Making Lunch -- documentary appearance
- 1993 M. Butterfly -- director
- 1994 Trial by Jury -- actor
- 1994 Henry and Verlin -- actor
- 1995 Blood and Donuts -- actor
- 1995 To Die For -- actor
- 1996 The Stoopids -- actor
- 1996 Extreme Measures -- actor
- 1996 Crash -- director, screenplay
