Be afraid. Be very afraid. For this month’s Halloween-themed premium we decided it was finally time to dig into the filmography of “The Baron of Blood” himself, Canada’s own David Cronenberg. For the purposes of keeping things mostly within the realm of horror, we focused on his run of movies from the late ’70s to the mid-’80s including The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone and The Fly before wrapping up with the late ’90s virtual reality thriller eXistenZ. Our discussion covered a variety of topics from special effects and subtext to scientific inaccuracies and local shooting locations. Is The Dead Zone a solid Stephen King adaptation or a lacklustre David Cronenberg film? Does the plot of Scanners make any sense? Why is Cronenberg’s brand of body horror so good at getting under the skin? Is Videodrome Cronenberg’s true masterpiece? Long live the new flesh… your reality is this month’s premium podcast. Download it below!

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