Horror Channel screens a Season of Cronenberg

Classic Cronenberg SeasonHorror Channel screens their Classic Cronenberg Season as Pascal Laugier, Simon Rumley & Sean Hogan present three of Cronenberg’s most influential masterpieces for your viewing pleasure.

Horror Channel showcases three of David Cronenberg’s most defining films with a season that can’t fail to shock and awaken the senses. Shivers, Rabid and The Dead Zone all receive their Horror Channel premieres, exclusively introduced by top horror directors Simon Rumley (Red White & Blue), Sean Hogan (The Devil’s Playground) and Pascal Laugier (Martyrs).

Classic Cronenberg SeasonShivers – Sat Jan 12 @ 22:55
The season kicks off with the premiere of Shivers (1975), Cronenberg’s debut full-length feature that helped coined the phrase ‘Body Horror’. The infectious plot sees a parasite enter the bodies of people living in a Montreal apartment block and consequently turns them into libido driven, sex mad zombies. Clearly a fan of the genre, Cronenberg cast the unforgettable Hammer Horror siren Barbara Steele in what was to become one of the most iconic scenes in the film.

Sean Hogan on Shivers: “I chose Shivers because, much like the sexual parasites that drive the plot, the film burrows under your skin and leaves you with strange, dark feelings. It announced the arrival of a bold new voice in horror and after it, the genre was utterly transformed: The New Flesh had arrived”.

Rabid – Sat Jan 19 @ 22.55Classic Cronenberg Season
Next up is the premiere of Rabid (1977) in which Cronenberg is once again flirting with the themes of strange science and even stranger sex in this blood-lusty follow up to Shivers. This time a young woman becomes a test subject for an experimental skin graft when she survives a horrific motorbike crash – but her new skin demands feeding…Starring Marilyn Chambers, this is Cronenberg’s twisted take on the Vampire genre.

The Dead Zone – Sat Jan 26 @ 22.55
Last in the season is The Dead Zone (1983), in which Cronenberg teamed up with Stephen King when he adapted his novel The Dead Zone . Filmed during a relentless deep freeze in Southern Ontario, this horror thriller stars Christopher Walken. As Johnny Smith – a man who wakes from a coma to find he’s lost five years of his life but gained psychic powers to foresee the future – something of a gift that soon becomes a curse.Classic Cronenberg Season

Simon Rumley on The Dead Zone: “This was one of the many classic small town American movies I watched when I was growing up and for a teenager from Kent it was intriguing and creepy and had, at the time, two of the coolest actors in the world – Christopher Walken and Martin Sheen”.

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