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"be afraid. be very afraid." -- david cronenberg's the fly
long live the new flesh?
title image from david cronenberg's first successful feature, shivers (aka they came from within).
night of the living dead meets the reichian sexual revolution. in the film, a sort of sexual "rage" takes hold in a high-rise swinging singles condominium development in toronto.
a cautionary tale. hard not to read this film today in the context of the later AIDS epidemic, but it's hardly just about STDs. cronenberg's movies are never simply biological horror stories. the first time i ever heard of erica jong and her term "zipless fuck" was in an article about this flick.
i love the way this still -- ostensibly part of a slideshow in a promotional film about the condo development -- captures a sort of soullessness in this somewhat plush (yet somehow also modest) master bedroom. the original, rather evocative title, shivers, certainly works better in the context of this particular shot than the american studio's would (however well that imposed title works on another level, with its lurid, cold-war inflection). a cool image, i think (+ i love that font!).
night of the living dead meets the reichian sexual revolution. in the film, a sort of sexual "rage" takes hold in a high-rise swinging singles condominium development in toronto.
a cautionary tale. hard not to read this film today in the context of the later AIDS epidemic, but it's hardly just about STDs. cronenberg's movies are never simply biological horror stories. the first time i ever heard of erica jong and her term "zipless fuck" was in an article about this flick.
i love the way this still -- ostensibly part of a slideshow in a promotional film about the condo development -- captures a sort of soullessness in this somewhat plush (yet somehow also modest) master bedroom. the original, rather evocative title, shivers, certainly works better in the context of this particular shot than the american studio's would (however well that imposed title works on another level, with its lurid, cold-war inflection). a cool image, i think (+ i love that font!).
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