Possessor

[Corpsey]

Also A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis.

But again, not the really hardcore ones like The Brood, Rabid, etc.

I've remembered I've seen Videodrome, which was the best one of all.

I really liked A Dangerous Method though

 

[Corpsey]

There's an interesting analogy between the lead protagonist needing to commit the most horrific violent acts to feel anything and a director needing to portray horrific violent acts to make ME, the viewer, feel something.

 

[Corpsey]

I'm intrigued by the idea @Pandiculate that being high on ket would make a film better. I can't imagine that being true. When I'm on ket I can barely work out how to tie my own shoelaces.

 

[Pandiculate]

I'm intrigued by the idea @Pandiculate that being high on ket would make a film better. I can't imagine that being true. When I'm on ket I can barely work out how to tie my own shoelaces.

Yeah I dunno, certain films really suck me in on ket, but I get the feeling with this it might have resulted in me going off on too many tangents inside my head and not actually paying enough attention.

 

[IdleRich]

They're supposed to kill themselves but in the case of the guy who takes her over he seems to vacillate between believing he'd done the murders (to the extent of inventing a reason for it) and knowing he'd been taken over. That was a really cool element of it, he had PTSD from committing murders he hadn't actually committed himself (although another interesting element is the question of to what extent "he" is involved in the murders, even if under duress). Some people online theorise that the reason the second murder is so horrible is that the host had feelings of anger and hatred that the possessor was channelling.

Ah yes.

 

[WashYourHands]

It’s dark and fun. Bit of an ode to the Matrix with skull portholes and Existenz (or however Croney Snr spells it)

Read they avoided cgi and it works. Sean whathisface’s head stomp was beautiful. Not a lot of fat. No extraneous wormhole plot fails.

Andrea Riseborough and Tilda Swinton seem cut from the same cloth. Mandy she was that fragile almost ethereal type of character too.

 

[IdleRich]

I thought of Existenz too, remember seeing that in the cinema when it came out... the world turns and the cycle of life continues with baby Cronenberg having a baby Existenz of his own.
I do like Angela Riseborough, she's in lots of good stuff. Also she was in the re-boot of The Grudge sadly.
This film was a lot better than it looks I think

 

[Corpsey]

Didn't think of the Matrix but definitely can see those parallels. Don't want to get Luka too excited though cos it's nothing like the matrix in tone or Kung Fu.

 

[DLaurent]

I watched it last night and didn't grasp the plot very well so couldn't rate it too high. It's a bit gory.

 

[Corpsey]

Bronenberg says his favourite author is Thomas Pynchon @version

Better to listen to this than watch it, that way you don't have to deal with the interviewers hat and bronenberg's eyebrow piercing

 

[Corpsey]

I think the reason I love this film so much is i'm really interested in psychopaths

Under the Skin was sort of about a psychopath - she's an alien but it's that cold chill you get watching this human-looking being acting completely emotionlessly

 

[muser]

I'm intrigued by the idea @Pandiculate that being high on ket would make a film better. I can't imagine that being true. When I'm on ket I can barely work out how to tie my own shoelaces.

I put Dark City in my top ten film list because I watched all the way through in and out of a k-hole, I rewatched it the other day because I had no idea why it was in my list didn't remember any thing about it, and it's one of the worst films I've ever seen.

 

[muser]

Enter the Void is good on ketamine because the long boring bits become less important

 

[WashYourHands]

I think the reason I love this film so much is i'm really interested in psychopaths

Under the Skin was sort of about a psychopath - she's an alien but it's that cold chill you get watching this human-looking being acting completely emotionlessly

A highlight in an ocean of dross

 

[IdleRich]

I think the reason I love this film so much is i'm really interested in psychopaths

Under the Skin was sort of about a psychopath - she's an alien but it's that cold chill you get watching this human-looking being acting completely emotionlessly

That beach scene was really cold.

 

[IdleRich]

I put Dark City in my top ten film list because I watched all the way through in and out of a k-hole, I rewatched it the other day because I had no idea why it was in my list didn't remember any thing about it, and it's one of the worst films I've ever seen.

Saw that in the cinema when it came out - then the Matrix came out like a year later and everyone forgot about it.