INSIDE VIDEODROME: David Cronenberg’s Mind Over Matter
David Cronenberg doesn't look like the kind of guy who'd make movies about people's heads being blown up, a man's innards becoming the convenient repository for hallucinogenic videocassettes, or a woman waking up from surgery with a full-size ravenous sexual organ under her arm.
INSIDE VIDEODROME: David Cronenberg’s Mind Over Matter
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TOBY GOLDSTEIN
David Cronenberg doesn't look like the kind of guy who'd make movies about people's heads being blown up, a man's innards becoming the convenient repository for hallucinogenic videocassettes, or a woman waking up from surgery with a full-size ravenous sexual organ under her arm. In fact, the boyish-looking 39-year-old director of those sequences—in Scanners, Videodrome, They Came From Within and several other chillers, wouldn't want to see any of his horrific visions happen in real life. But, he explains via phone from the small-town Ontario set of The Dead Zone—his next film—perpetually facing the demons in movies is one way to conquer the fear of getting out of bed in the morning.