Rabid

Well, that 79 means that he went from that to Scanners.

He went Rabid, Fast Company, and then Brood.

Okay, so Brood's the bridge, isn't it? Which is, again, sort of the body horror thing.

But I think Fast Company's really good.

Love it.

Rabid, 1977.

Another good one.

The Brood in '79 is incredible.

Dead Ringers is really, really good.

Then probably Video Drome, Shivers, Scanners.

Or The Dead Zone, and then Rabid probably at the bottom of the list.

I thought...

Cronenberg's first handful of films are mostly not very good.

Shivers and Rabid show some promise of things to come, but it isn't until 1979's The Brood that the David Cronenberg we now know today really appeared in full force.

The plot concerns trauma inflicted on the child of a divorced couple, an inspiration drawn from his own life as well as the then-upcoming film Kramer vs. Kramer.

I also see it as a bit of a spiritual sister film to Lynch's Eraserhead, which also concerns parental fears.

Oh, okay.

So he went on to act in like the first handful of Cronenberg movies.

So he's in Crimes of the Future and I think he's in Shivers and Rabbit as well.

Oh.