If I had a nickel for every time a former Twilight star starred in a David Cronenberg movie I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
I saw it at my college anime club meetup and had no idea how much body horror I was getting into. Was definitely better seeing it in public than by myself! Unfortunately most of the club members found it confusing and dated (fair enough I guess). Meanwhile the sheer horror and beauty of the animation set my brain into overdrive and I couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks.
Yeah it truly blew me away. It was an arthouse theater so I think people were expecting a Fantastic Planet sort of thing and the viscera shocked them. If you ever get a chance to see it on the big screen take it its truly breathtaking
Watching Akira was the most surprising experience in a good way, I watched it with my dad and he said he watched it a very long time ago and we had just finished the shitty Blade anime so we both went in expecting a cheesy 80's anime and instead got a masterful piece of political body horror
This is why I subbed to this channel in the first place - to hear my parasocial bestie May excitedly tell me about the newest fucked-up cinematic disaster and/or masterpiece she's seen. Not that I don't love the other stuff you've branched out into, but I'd be very sad if you didn't make one of these every once in a while.
I really liked Crimes of the Future, but Jurassic World was playing really loudly in the theater next to us so there were several times when there was a quiet and serious moment and distantly you'd hear dramatic french horns or someone getting eaten by a dinosaur lol. Didn't detract form the experience definitely changed it
This movie was like of Repo! The Genetic Opera were like, good and done well with a good writer, a good cast, a good director and cinematographer and composer, etc.
Fetish for surgery? Reminds me of a certain rock opera featuring little glass vials. Unlike that mess of a movie, this sounds like it actually explores the themes it sets up
Oh lawd you just brought up an entire year of my life watching that movie over and over for local plays every Goth/Burlesque theatre group was producing.
I loooove Cronenberg, he's my fave director, and I ADORED this movie. My partner and I went and saw it on opening night, wearing matching "david cronenberg sex pervert film club" shirts (that I made). There was only like six people other than us in the theatre. We both loved the movie because she is a creepy weirdo too, and it was an excellent date night watch for us. I don't understand why it got so much hate. It was everything I wanted and then some.
I loved it as well. Didn't see it in the theater, but there is a good chance I'll never go to a theater again because even 6 people is 5 too many. Cronenberg just isn't for everyone, surprisingly. As much as I want to see a child cut open to witness his plastic digesting organ, I'm starting to learn other people may look at you weird when you bring it up during polite conversation? Also, I bet those t-shirts are dope.
One of the most interesting stories from my childhood involved The Fly. I don't remember this but my dad uses it a lot as an anecdote on my weirdness lol. Apparently, when I was about 3, my parents put us to bed to watch The Fly. I snuck out of bed and sat behind the couch, in complete silence, and watched pretty much all of the transformation scenes. You know what got me busted? I was laughing. Hysterically. Like it was just the funniest thing to ever be. My parents put me to bed but I guess I really enjoyed it because I started demanding they put it on again. They thought, "This kid is gonna run out of here like the wind the second weird stuff starts to happen!" But nope lol. No. Not at all. I laughed and clapped and started telling people it was my favourite movie. Can you imagine asking a 3-4 year old girl what her favorite movie is and her responding with laughter and enthusiasm, "The Fly"? Idk I think I'd even be weirded out and I was literally that kid lol. I also made my dad let me watch all three Exorcist films when I was 11. I said I wanted to watch more horror and he said I couldn't handle it, so I asked what the scariest movie ever was, he said The Exorcist. We discussed. There are 3. I said ok, if I can watch them all, will you let me watch ANY horror? I stayed up. Watched all three. By myself because my sister was too scared. My verdict? The second one sucked lol. Tbh Event Horizon had a way, way bigger impact on me than The Exorcist did. Like the doctor talking about the void and how good it feels, whoa dude, that's a bit much for a child lol. Event Horizon introduced a manner of thinking that creeped me out. Hellraiser has the same thing but it wasn't as unsettling for child me. Demons and monsters and murder didn't scare me. Embracing the void and losing all sense of yourself? Yeah that did it lol. No wonder I love Lovecraft's style of fear.
Even as a big Eli Roth stan, The Green Inferno was a mostly embarrassing, underwhelming, cheap mess, but that dismemberment scene was one of the best moments of cinematic violence I've ever seen. To see that with a crowd, at a fucking Blumhouse movie no less, was pure silver-screen nirvana.
I loved The Green Inferno because it was just a comical level of violence and all the characters were hate-able enough to make it hilarious when they got got. I love The Green Inferno because it’s a movie about bad people and it also allows me to be a bad person for two hours and I’ll get slightly injured on this hill
I'm gonna be honest, I've seen that movie three times and can't remember any of it, other than it being annoying and me cheering when any of the characters died horribly. I legit can't remember any of the kills.
I know it's probably a less than original statement to make about a film and maybe it's just cause i'm a trans myself but I found the ending in particular really resonated with me as this idea of spending years going against what you feel is right and experiencing a moment of realization that just brings you to tears
Saw this with my dad and like 3 other people in the cinema. We both loved it but one of the other people left about 30 minutes in. Also a confused man that was looking for his daughter came into the theatre and started shouting for a minute or two (while Viggo was being operated on in the sarcophagus). Very surreal experience
may you are genuinely one of my favorite horror and experimental movie channels. i never see other channels cover the movies you do and i am always excited for your analysis!
I don't handle Body Horror very well, especially in visual media, so I'm tapping out at 8:24 as suggested, but I'm really glad you had a good time with this movie, and I'm kind of delighted to know that this is how Viggo Mortensen's career has progressed, lmao.
You were spot on here. Despite all of the "disgusting" stuff in this movie, its never presented as horrific. Its so normalized to everyone in the film that they are unphased, even if to the audience it is horrific. Only odd thing to me at least to guess was that they built up that whole pageant thing and then its just dropped, like there was another act of this movie we didn't see (not saying chronenberg literally cut an act). Also fun fact this is the second film chronenberg directed titled crimes of the future and it is not a remake of it. they just share the title for some reason. I thought that was interesting.
Have you seen the film Titane?? I would love to hear your opinion on it. I watched it when i was abroad in Prague and I remember the absolute horror that rippled through the half drunk audience. It was honestly one of the most memorable theatre experiences ever.
'K, I gotta see this. But, if people no longer feel pain in this world, how is it that Mortenson's character feels pain from the new organs? Have you seen Repo! The Genetic Opera?
My overall opinion of the movie was so-so but I saw Men in theaters, and felt absolute disgust, awe and joy while watching the one other person in the theater walk out during the ending scene (you know, *that* scene).
love finding people into this movie. as the credits ran in the theater all i could think about is how weird it is that multiple people gathered in one place to watch that. i do think the movie is a sprinkle of videodrome and also pretty conceptually similar to crash, and there he flat out states what he’s doing in his films. “the reshaping of the human body by modern technology” as the “crude sci-fi concept that floats on the surface and doesn't threaten anybody” when at its core it’s that “the car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event-a liberation of sexual energy that mediates the sexuality of those who have died with an intensity impossible in any other form." i mean surgery is the new sex, sex is like surgery is a succinct version of that. surgery (and sex) as fertilizing events for ecstasy and self realization. and one thing i like about cronenberg is that self realization is very explicitly revealed as a somewhat communal experience. we literally make and build ourselves in relation to and alongside others. in other words long, live the stussy!
This was my first Cronenberg movie, and altogether? I was very pleased with it. I was absolutely obsessed with the practical effects, I love that stupid breakfast chair with my whole heart. My biggest issue, though, was that it was *too* robust a world for just a film. I wish they'd given him like, a 12 episode 1 season TV series to just go fucking ham on, because there was *so* much going on, so many amazing themes and politics and motifs and imagery, it just felt like a waste to have to cram it into 1 movie, and that a lot of what he wanted to say was cut off at the knees in order to fit it into a decent run time. That said, it did result in me and my partner then hitting up the local cinema for every Cronenberg film they were putting on, and I got to sit there, mouth agape grinning like a kid at a candy shop, watching Videodrome. So this movie definitely gets at least a 4/5 from me for introducing me to this man and his epic fetishes. (Crash was a fucking marathon to endure, and I loved every second)
I watched this up until the spoiler point, stopped and watched the movie, then came back and finished this video. Thank you for convincing me to finally watch this movie. It was pretty great 👍
Girl you give me so much joy. Every new video on absolutely gritty, disturbing, abhorrent content you post have me giggling in anticipation. Thank you for everything you do!
Have you seen Mad God by Phil Tippett? It's an ocean of weird with islands of gross, but it adds up to being, um, beautiful? (Apologies if you've addressed it in a previous video)
I listened to this whole video and thought you were talking about some movie from the 80s and I did not realize until 19 min in that this came out 2022. Thinks made so much more sense when i thought that
Literally had no idea you had a significant finnish audience. Propably tells about how much we talk to eachother lmao. Anyway, Cheers! Love your work ❤️ - A fellow weirdo from The land of Santa claus and Alchoholism
i saw this movie in theaters with my girlfriend and a friend and we all came out of it talking about politics and disability and sexuality, we had a great time! crimes of the future is so dense with ideas, i can't imagine not liking it at the very least on an intellectual level. it's one of these movies that just feels good to my brain!
This video was the second Cronenberg discussion I had seen in as many days, so naturally I paused this to finally sit down and watch Videodrome for the first time. I deadass messaged my husband and called James Wood's ab hole his 'Tummussy'... now you're telling me the TUMMUSSY IS CRONENBERG CANON?!
6:27 love that the definition of bottom in this universe seems to be someone who grows a large amount of organs that Need to be removed, truly fantastic
Oh shit! This movie!! I'm so happy to see someone talk about it, let alone you!! I saw it with a friend in a completely empty theater and after that experience I so desperately wanted to get the word out about it. It's so good!!!
even before lotr came out my mom had such a massive crush on viggo mortensen that her friend my her a photo collage that they framed and hung on her bedroom wall. it was there until we moved houses when i was 18. and now i'm really tempted to get her to watch this movie
I loved the film and love your discussion of it! Have you read Consumed by Cronenberg? If not, I think you'd really like it. Also has a lot of surgery-seggs stuff in it and some other delightful weirdness.
May! You should talk about Dead Ringers. While I wouldn't say it was my favorite Cronenburg movie, I feel like its up there. I can get why its ingored cuz it doent have all the fun and gross out factor of his other movies, but the exploration of the psyche of twins always facinates me, as I did have my twin die at birth. I'm really curious about your thoughts on it and maybe you could get the catboy to watch it with you.
I remember there was a callout to Kevin in one of the impossible movies lists and I was thinking how trippy it would be to get notified like that and now as a finn, I finally had that experience. Trippy!
Love that you posted this video the same day I received my French 4K UHD steelbook copy in the mail. Amazing timing there, May. And yeah, I saw it in theaters back in June. Both David and his kid Brandon are churing out brilliant films left and right.
watched it I loved it the dialogue is sort of bad but made sense at the same time there was never an open conflict - shouting etc - everything was done in this odd bureaucratic speech kinda like dogtooth but it charmed me back everytime
I never really worry about spoilers but you sold me on this one. Sounds like it was made for me so far- I'll be back to see the rest of the video LOL. Thanks as always.
Hello May, I am a cool transmasc and I'm a very big fan of yours :)) thank u for being an icon in the horror community, while being my fav on top of it, up there with Spookyrice and Wendigoon. I'm rly poor, but I wanna buy ur book soon. Anyway good luck or wtvr on your continued channel growth 🖤 I have an idea but it might be dumb! Maybe videos talking about disturbed artists and their freaky weird ass art! I think they end up painting rly vivid pictures of mental illness (no pun intended) and it might be worth a lil video or two :3 Anyway yeah keep being cool byeeeee -Charlie, he/they
the way i had my first academic tutor meeting of the year today and spent half of it chatting about this movie bc said tutor is a huge david cronenberg fan - he absolutely loved the ending haha i also loved crimes of the future, my academic tutor is the reason i got into cronenberg in the first place he’s a really cool guy :))
Apparently Viggo Mortensen got kicked by a horse and was in incredible pain the entire time and he couldn't stand up straight which is why his character is just constantly popping a squat
Yaaas.. great movie that sticks with you.. lots of interesting layers in the plot even if some are half developed. Viggo is an undercover cop essentially and using his access to the surgical performance art community to keep tabs on "subversive elements' within. He is in contact with that ministry agent and feeding him information to root out the clandestine plastic eater group. The film also is set in a post climate collapse world I think its important to point out too. The planet is essentially sterile and 'plastic" is the new dominant biomass on the planet.. hence the struggle between the pre-collapse biological humans and the new post-collapse synthetic ones. Glad you liked it! I really did too.
I saw a few other reviewers talking about this movie and still not sure if I’d like it but I love hearing you talk about gross stuff, so here I am haha! Also random side note but I was surprised to see Cronenberg in the later seasons of Star Trek: Discovery and is actually pretty good in it. I didn’t recognize him at first but after seeing his name in the credits I was like “Oh, weird!”
Hello from... Finland. Just watched Cronenberg's The Dead Zone, which I enjoyed greatly, and I'm waiting to see this "comeback" of his very, very much. Happy to hear that it's good!
cant wait to watch this. have you seen barbarian yet? i don't know that it warrants a full video discussion... it was a little shallow imo... but it was still an engaging watch
Lol I have to see this movie just cause it’s like What the What? Lol sounds better than suffering through other movies you have critiqued like um torture vomit dolls or whatever sick shit that is/was. I love those glasses by the way❤
The fact that the Breakfast Chair brought you so much joy made me love it by proxy as it only made me really confused watching the film (…shouldn’t it not exist at all if no one feels pain anymore? But then we wouldn’t have gotten the zipper scene if we actually thought about all the inconsistencies with Viggo’s character 😮).
Ur so right abt this not being anything like any other movie, even Cronenburg movie cause like the only one close I can think of is existenz but that’s only cause of the just like suddenness of the worldbuilding being thrown at u and the huge abrupt ending. I just feel like the construction of crimes of the future is so fucking weird and at times nonsensical that it like only rlly makes sense as an intense art piece by chief weirdo David Cronenbrug and I do respect him for that even if I don’t entirely love the movie.
I’m in Canada and I would watch weird movies with you whenever you like 😁 My fave Cronenberg is probably Naked Lunch but Videodrome is a close second. This movie was pretty good 😀
If I had a nickel for every time a former Twilight star starred in a David Cronenberg movie I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
taylor lautner really got the short end of the stick when it comes to further acting career huh
@Big Chungus yeah that's fair, i respect that
Is that a Jimmy Neutron reference?!?
@@itsmesnacks TBF he probably never has to work again if he doesn’t want to, those movies made bank.
I saw Akira in a theater once and the collective moan of disgust when Tetsuo’s insides start falling out was the most intimate moment of my life
I envy you seeing it in a theater! That must have been wild!
I saw it at my college anime club meetup and had no idea how much body horror I was getting into. Was definitely better seeing it in public than by myself!
Unfortunately most of the club members found it confusing and dated (fair enough I guess).
Meanwhile the sheer horror and beauty of the animation set my brain into overdrive and I couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks.
Yeah it truly blew me away. It was an arthouse theater so I think people were expecting a Fantastic Planet sort of thing and the viscera shocked them. If you ever get a chance to see it on the big screen take it its truly breathtaking
Gods that movie always draws me in, like it digs it's claws in me and doesn't let go until the story is done
Watching Akira was the most surprising experience in a good way, I watched it with my dad and he said he watched it a very long time ago and we had just finished the shitty Blade anime so we both went in expecting a cheesy 80's anime and instead got a masterful piece of political body horror
This is why I subbed to this channel in the first place - to hear my parasocial bestie May excitedly tell me about the newest fucked-up cinematic disaster and/or masterpiece she's seen. Not that I don't love the other stuff you've branched out into, but I'd be very sad if you didn't make one of these every once in a while.
"My boobs are full of bugs and need to be removed" is a trans-masc mood.
Would love to have a t-shirt with that written
also a paranoia haver mood
@@dunkingtruth why not both? 🎺
I really liked Crimes of the Future, but Jurassic World was playing really loudly in the theater next to us so there were several times when there was a quiet and serious moment and distantly you'd hear dramatic french horns or someone getting eaten by a dinosaur lol. Didn't detract form the experience definitely changed it
This movie was like of Repo! The Genetic Opera were like, good and done well with a good writer, a good cast, a good director and cinematographer and composer, etc.
This sounds like someone watched Repo! and went "hm not enough organs!" And then made this
Fetish for surgery? Reminds me of a certain rock opera featuring little glass vials.
Unlike that mess of a movie, this sounds like it actually explores the themes it sets up
A little glass vial? (Sorry, had to reference one of the songs)
Repo takes up a very sweet spot in my heart which is why I loved this movie😭💖 but I agree that movie is a mess and the director is a creep
Literally the first thing I thought of when I saw the title
Oh lawd you just brought up an entire year of my life watching that movie over and over for local plays every Goth/Burlesque theatre group was producing.
I loooove Cronenberg, he's my fave director, and I ADORED this movie. My partner and I went and saw it on opening night, wearing matching "david cronenberg sex pervert film club" shirts (that I made). There was only like six people other than us in the theatre. We both loved the movie because she is a creepy weirdo too, and it was an excellent date night watch for us.
I don't understand why it got so much hate. It was everything I wanted and then some.
I loved it as well. Didn't see it in the theater, but there is a good chance I'll never go to a theater again because even 6 people is 5 too many. Cronenberg just isn't for everyone, surprisingly. As much as I want to see a child cut open to witness his plastic digesting organ, I'm starting to learn other people may look at you weird when you bring it up during polite conversation?
Also, I bet those t-shirts are dope.
You need to make more of those shirts to sell. Because I want one.
@@KimiClark19 I have some! Search my current username on e/tsy :3
@Big Chungus Who am I to question the wisdom of the Chungus?
@@KimiClark19 Yeah, me too. I need it in my life, on my body.
Gotta love the chaotic energy May exudes whenever she's passionate about something - specifically something she likes!
One of the most interesting stories from my childhood involved The Fly. I don't remember this but my dad uses it a lot as an anecdote on my weirdness lol. Apparently, when I was about 3, my parents put us to bed to watch The Fly.
I snuck out of bed and sat behind the couch, in complete silence, and watched pretty much all of the transformation scenes. You know what got me busted? I was laughing. Hysterically. Like it was just the funniest thing to ever be. My parents put me to bed but I guess I really enjoyed it because I started demanding they put it on again. They thought, "This kid is gonna run out of here like the wind the second weird stuff starts to happen!" But nope lol. No. Not at all. I laughed and clapped and started telling people it was my favourite movie.
Can you imagine asking a 3-4 year old girl what her favorite movie is and her responding with laughter and enthusiasm, "The Fly"? Idk I think I'd even be weirded out and I was literally that kid lol.
I also made my dad let me watch all three Exorcist films when I was 11. I said I wanted to watch more horror and he said I couldn't handle it, so I asked what the scariest movie ever was, he said The Exorcist. We discussed. There are 3. I said ok, if I can watch them all, will you let me watch ANY horror? I stayed up. Watched all three. By myself because my sister was too scared. My verdict? The second one sucked lol.
Tbh Event Horizon had a way, way bigger impact on me than The Exorcist did. Like the doctor talking about the void and how good it feels, whoa dude, that's a bit much for a child lol. Event Horizon introduced a manner of thinking that creeped me out. Hellraiser has the same thing but it wasn't as unsettling for child me. Demons and monsters and murder didn't scare me. Embracing the void and losing all sense of yourself? Yeah that did it lol. No wonder I love Lovecraft's style of fear.
At first I thought of Repo the Genetic Opera but then things took a turn and now I'm gonna watch it.
Even as a big Eli Roth stan, The Green Inferno was a mostly embarrassing, underwhelming, cheap mess, but that dismemberment scene was one of the best moments of cinematic violence I've ever seen. To see that with a crowd, at a fucking Blumhouse movie no less, was pure silver-screen nirvana.
I agree, I watched it w friends and that was the most fun part about the movie, otherwise I would have turned it off lol
that scene actually gave me waves of nausea and chills. I can't recollect another scene that has ever done that to me
I loved The Green Inferno because it was just a comical level of violence and all the characters were hate-able enough to make it hilarious when they got got. I love The Green Inferno because it’s a movie about bad people and it also allows me to be a bad person for two hours and I’ll get slightly injured on this hill
I'm gonna be honest, I've seen that movie three times and can't remember any of it, other than it being annoying and me cheering when any of the characters died horribly. I legit can't remember any of the kills.
Which of his movies are you a fan of?
I know it's probably a less than original statement to make about a film and maybe it's just cause i'm a trans myself but I found the ending in particular really resonated with me as this idea of spending years going against what you feel is right and experiencing a moment of realization that just brings you to tears
Saw this with my dad and like 3 other people in the cinema. We both loved it but one of the other people left about 30 minutes in. Also a confused man that was looking for his daughter came into the theatre and started shouting for a minute or two (while Viggo was being operated on in the sarcophagus). Very surreal experience
may you are genuinely one of my favorite horror and experimental movie channels. i never see other channels cover the movies you do and i am always excited for your analysis!
i just bought some shoes solely bc they remind me of breakfast chair.... i love that thing so much
The vivisection kink is something that I discovered through Invader Zim fandom. I am so glad that finally there is an official movie about it.
sorry for enfraudulating your analytics w my Finnish VPN
I don't handle Body Horror very well, especially in visual media, so I'm tapping out at 8:24 as suggested, but I'm really glad you had a good time with this movie, and I'm kind of delighted to know that this is how Viggo Mortensen's career has progressed, lmao.
Just saw it and I I left wanting two things… a breakfast chair and longer scenes with the technician girlies
You were spot on here. Despite all of the "disgusting" stuff in this movie, its never presented as horrific. Its so normalized to everyone in the film that they are unphased, even if to the audience it is horrific. Only odd thing to me at least to guess was that they built up that whole pageant thing and then its just dropped, like there was another act of this movie we didn't see (not saying chronenberg literally cut an act). Also fun fact this is the second film chronenberg directed titled crimes of the future and it is not a remake of it. they just share the title for some reason. I thought that was interesting.
Have you seen the film Titane?? I would love to hear your opinion on it. I watched it when i was abroad in Prague and I remember the absolute horror that rippled through the half drunk audience. It was honestly one of the most memorable theatre experiences ever.
I am asexual but if I could get a stussy I think that'd fix me
There’s a weird woman(me) from
India who also loves your content May. Figured since Finland is getting a shout out
I wouldn’t have guessed that the Finns are your most active viewers but as soon as you said it I realized I was foolish for not assuming that
Who me? Sicko? I accept.
Some are born sick, some achieve sickness, and other have sickness thrust upon them 😔👊
'Viggo is an exhibitionist bottom in it" is the only endorsement I needed, tysm May
'K, I gotta see this.
But, if people no longer feel pain in this world, how is it that Mortenson's character feels pain from the new organs?
Have you seen Repo! The Genetic Opera?
Hearing the cackle about the breakfast chair made me giggle snort. Quality content. 🤣
My overall opinion of the movie was so-so but I saw Men in theaters, and felt absolute disgust, awe and joy while watching the one other person in the theater walk out during the ending scene (you know, *that* scene).
love finding people into this movie. as the credits ran in the theater all i could think about is how weird it is that multiple people gathered in one place to watch that. i do think the movie is a sprinkle of videodrome and also pretty conceptually similar to crash, and there he flat out states what he’s doing in his films.
“the reshaping of the human body by modern technology” as the “crude sci-fi concept that floats on the surface and doesn't threaten anybody” when at its core it’s that “the car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event-a liberation of sexual energy that mediates the sexuality of those who have died with an intensity impossible in any other form."
i mean surgery is the new sex, sex is like surgery is a succinct version of that. surgery (and sex) as fertilizing events for ecstasy and self realization. and one thing i like about cronenberg is that self realization is very explicitly revealed as a somewhat communal experience. we literally make and build ourselves in relation to and alongside others. in other words long, live the stussy!
This was my first Cronenberg movie, and altogether? I was very pleased with it. I was absolutely obsessed with the practical effects, I love that stupid breakfast chair with my whole heart. My biggest issue, though, was that it was *too* robust a world for just a film. I wish they'd given him like, a 12 episode 1 season TV series to just go fucking ham on, because there was *so* much going on, so many amazing themes and politics and motifs and imagery, it just felt like a waste to have to cram it into 1 movie, and that a lot of what he wanted to say was cut off at the knees in order to fit it into a decent run time. That said, it did result in me and my partner then hitting up the local cinema for every Cronenberg film they were putting on, and I got to sit there, mouth agape grinning like a kid at a candy shop, watching Videodrome. So this movie definitely gets at least a 4/5 from me for introducing me to this man and his epic fetishes. (Crash was a fucking marathon to endure, and I loved every second)
David “Stussie” Cronenberg. First Videodrome and now this...
I'm so so glad other people are making this connection
I watched this up until the spoiler point, stopped and watched the movie, then came back and finished this video. Thank you for convincing me to finally watch this movie. It was pretty great 👍
Girl you give me so much joy. Every new video on absolutely gritty, disturbing, abhorrent content you post have me giggling in anticipation. Thank you for everything you do!
wake up babe new nyx fears upload
Have you seen Mad God by Phil Tippett? It's an ocean of weird with islands of gross, but it adds up to being, um, beautiful? (Apologies if you've addressed it in a previous video)
As someone with good old fashioned, hardcore body dysmorphia; this film was DELIGHTFUL. But I could say that about most of Cronenberg flicks.
I listened to this whole video and thought you were talking about some movie from the 80s and I did not realize until 19 min in that this came out 2022. Thinks made so much more sense when i thought that
saw this with my dad completely alone in a blackbox theater, loved the ending, thought the final shot was perfect
Literally had no idea you had a significant finnish audience. Propably tells about how much we talk to eachother lmao. Anyway, Cheers! Love your work ❤️
- A fellow weirdo from The land of Santa claus and Alchoholism
I recently saw the fifth element in theaters for an anniversary showing, very fun to see in the theater with people who love the movie already
the vibe here reminds me of the sexy organ scanning scene in repo men
i saw this movie in theaters with my girlfriend and a friend and we all came out of it talking about politics and disability and sexuality, we had a great time! crimes of the future is so dense with ideas, i can't imagine not liking it at the very least on an intellectual level. it's one of these movies that just feels good to my brain!
SO glad you're back and covering this movie.
I really enjoyed Cronenberg's take on Naked Lunch. I wanted one of those bug typewriters.
William S. Burrows is a legend!
i can think of two things wrong with the title of that movie
Suomi mainittu!! Been subscribed for agesss! Love from Finland May! 😂
This video was the second Cronenberg discussion I had seen in as many days, so naturally I paused this to finally sit down and watch Videodrome for the first time. I deadass messaged my husband and called James Wood's ab hole his 'Tummussy'... now you're telling me the TUMMUSSY IS CRONENBERG CANON?!
6:27 love that the definition of bottom in this universe seems to be someone who grows a large amount of organs that Need to be removed, truly fantastic
Oh shit! This movie!! I'm so happy to see someone talk about it, let alone you!! I saw it with a friend in a completely empty theater and after that experience I so desperately wanted to get the word out about it. It's so good!!!
I can't believe cronenberg invented Sex 2
“Terrifying idea, really. But fortunately, people want to have sex with it.” [AND THAT’S MY ANGLE!!]
even before lotr came out my mom had such a massive crush on viggo mortensen that her friend my her a photo collage that they framed and hung on her bedroom wall. it was there until we moved houses when i was 18. and now i'm really tempted to get her to watch this movie
This sounds like a sexualized adaptation of Repo! The Genetic Operah… 😳
I've been binge watching your videos lately, your personality is delightful May!
we could do surgery on a grape
I loved the film and love your discussion of it! Have you read Consumed by Cronenberg? If not, I think you'd really like it. Also has a lot of surgery-seggs stuff in it and some other delightful weirdness.
Did not expect the Finland shout out. Scared me a whee bit- Torilla tavataan!
So there are other Finnish subscribers than just me? Cool!! Keep going and you might end up having the biggest Finnish fanbase ever lolol
After having read Fluids, it makes a lot of sense this movie is a new fave for you lmfao
Hello? I came here because I heard this channel is BLOWING UP! and, sure enough, DAYUM! it is blowing up! Thumbs-up, May!
Saw this one in the theater. Immediately bought a copy, and one of Naked Lunch. I'm becoming a bit of a fan of this director.
May! You should talk about Dead Ringers. While I wouldn't say it was my favorite Cronenburg movie, I feel like its up there. I can get why its ingored cuz it doent have all the fun and gross out factor of his other movies, but the exploration of the psyche of twins always facinates me, as I did have my twin die at birth. I'm really curious about your thoughts on it and maybe you could get the catboy to watch it with you.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I SECOND THIS. Dead Ringers is my favourite movie of all time.
dead ringers is incredible, seconding this
❤ it too
I remember there was a callout to Kevin in one of the impossible movies lists and I was thinking how trippy it would be to get notified like that and now as a finn, I finally had that experience. Trippy!
**MOVES TO FINLAND JUST TO BE ONE OF MAY’S BEST FRIENDS**
I never would have expected the film adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" to look like this!
I JUST GOT FLUIDS TODAY IM SO EXCITED TO READ IT ❤
I've missed this channel doing discussions about individual movies rather than ranking weird shit online!
Body horror is difficult for me sometimes but this movie sounds awesome ngl
Hello to you from Finland! Got a bit startled when you mentioned us but it's nice to be acknowledged every now and then :D
I did a little personal double feature with this and crash and it did make me a smidgen queezy.
Finn here, '''Hello those to who are in finland'' made me perk up like a dog, XD was really unexpected
Love that you posted this video the same day I received my French 4K UHD steelbook copy in the mail. Amazing timing there, May.
And yeah, I saw it in theaters back in June. Both David and his kid Brandon are churing out brilliant films left and right.
watched it I loved it
the dialogue is sort of bad but made sense at the same time
there was never an open conflict - shouting etc - everything was done in this odd bureaucratic speech kinda like dogtooth
but it charmed me back everytime
New Cronenberg? Fuck yes.
I never really worry about spoilers but you sold me on this one. Sounds like it was made for me so far- I'll be back to see the rest of the video LOL. Thanks as always.
SO GLAD YOURE TALKING ABOUT THIS ive been obsessed with this movie since I somehow dragged my normie friend to see it. it was her first cronenberg too
Hello May, I am a cool transmasc and I'm a very big fan of yours :)) thank u for being an icon in the horror community, while being my fav on top of it, up there with Spookyrice and Wendigoon. I'm rly poor, but I wanna buy ur book soon.
Anyway good luck or wtvr on your continued channel growth 🖤 I have an idea but it might be dumb! Maybe videos talking about disturbed artists and their freaky weird ass art! I think they end up painting rly vivid pictures of mental illness (no pun intended) and it might be worth a lil video or two :3
Anyway yeah keep being cool byeeeee
-Charlie, he/they
salutations fellow transmasc may leitz stan
the way i had my first academic tutor meeting of the year today and spent half of it chatting about this movie bc said tutor is a huge david cronenberg fan - he absolutely loved the ending haha
i also loved crimes of the future, my academic tutor is the reason i got into cronenberg in the first place he’s a really cool guy :))
Ahhhh, The Fly movies; my first childhood interaction with modern Gothic Horror.
Loved this movie and you captured it so well!! Hearing you laugh about how crazy this is was amaaaazing
Apparently Viggo Mortensen got kicked by a horse and was in incredible pain the entire time and he couldn't stand up straight which is why his character is just constantly popping a squat
Yaaas.. great movie that sticks with you.. lots of interesting layers in the plot even if some are half developed.
Viggo is an undercover cop essentially and using his access to the surgical performance art community to keep tabs on "subversive elements' within.
He is in contact with that ministry agent and feeding him information to root out the clandestine plastic eater group.
The film also is set in a post climate collapse world I think its important to point out too. The planet is essentially sterile and 'plastic" is the new dominant biomass on the planet.. hence the struggle between the pre-collapse biological humans and the new post-collapse synthetic ones.
Glad you liked it! I really did too.
i could listen to you talk about movies forever, queen
I think eXistenZ is similar to COTF in terms of aesthetic and futurism
Man, I didn’t know that David Cronenberg was also a fan of Repo! The Genetic Opera.
That’s so pleasant to learn.
I saw a few other reviewers talking about this movie and still not sure if I’d like it but I love hearing you talk about gross stuff, so here I am haha!
Also random side note but I was surprised to see Cronenberg in the later seasons of Star Trek: Discovery and is actually pretty good in it. I didn’t recognize him at first but after seeing his name in the credits I was like “Oh, weird!”
Hello from... Finland. Just watched Cronenberg's The Dead Zone, which I enjoyed greatly, and I'm waiting to see this "comeback" of his very, very much. Happy to hear that it's good!
The mad man actually did it. He really ate plastic.
speaking a may and mildred spooky video collab into existence
I know the “show your mom” was a joke but my mom is also a weirdo who loves weird movies so she might like this weirdo movie
cant wait to watch this. have you seen barbarian yet? i don't know that it warrants a full video discussion... it was a little shallow imo... but it was still an engaging watch
I've been watching your videos for some time now and I love the fact that there are other finnish people here with me! 😂 love from 🇫🇮
Finally watched it just so I could watch this - again you are spot on. Love you dude.
Lol I have to see this movie just cause it’s like What the What? Lol sounds better than suffering through other movies you have critiqued like um torture vomit dolls or whatever sick shit that is/was. I love those glasses by the way❤
The fact that the Breakfast Chair brought you so much joy made me love it by proxy as it only made me really confused watching the film (…shouldn’t it not exist at all if no one feels pain anymore? But then we wouldn’t have gotten the zipper scene if we actually thought about all the inconsistencies with Viggo’s character 😮).
I paused here somewhere around 3 minutes to watch the entire movie and it held me captivated the whole time. Fucked!
Ur so right abt this not being anything like any other movie, even Cronenburg movie cause like the only one close I can think of is existenz but that’s only cause of the just like suddenness of the worldbuilding being thrown at u and the huge abrupt ending. I just feel like the construction of crimes of the future is so fucking weird and at times nonsensical that it like only rlly makes sense as an intense art piece by chief weirdo David Cronenbrug and I do respect him for that even if I don’t entirely love the movie.
I’m in Canada and I would watch weird movies with you whenever you like 😁 My fave Cronenberg is probably Naked Lunch but Videodrome is a close second. This movie was pretty good 😀