David Cronenberg Biography

David Cronenberg also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood was born in Toronto Ontario Canada in 1943. His father Milton Cronenberg was a journalist and editor and his mother Esther (Sumberg) was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early age (he wrote and published eerie short stories thus following his father's path) and for music (playing classical guitar until he was 12) Cronenberg graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Literature after switching from the science department. He reached the cult status of horror-meister with the gore-filled modern-vampire variations of Shivers (1975) and Rabid (1977) following an experimental apprenticeship in independent film-making and in Canadian television programs.
Cronenberg gained popularity with the head-exploding telepathy-based Scanners (1981) after the release of the much underrated controversial and autobiographical The Brood (1979). Cronenberg become a sort of a mass media guru with Videodrome (1983) a shocking investigation of the hazards of reality-morphing television and a prophetic critique of contemporary aesthetics. The issues of tech-induced mutation of the human body and topics of the prominent dichotomy between body and mind were back again in The Dead Zone (1983) and The Fly (1986) both bright examples of a personal film-making identity even if both films are based on mass-entertainment materials: the first being a rendition of a Stephen King best-seller the latter a remake of a famous American horror movie.

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