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The Brood (Country: Canada; Year: 1979; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg; Stars: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald, Cindy Hinds)
The use of experimental psychology to treat a troubled divorcee coincides with a series of mysterious attacks by mutant children.
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Dead Ringers (Country: Canada, US; Year: 1988; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg, Norman Snider, Bari Wood; Stars: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas, Stephen Lack)
Twin gynaecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
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The Fly (Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: Charles Edward Pogue, David Cronenberg, based on a short story by George Langelaan; Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson, George Chuvalo, Michael Copeman, David Cronenberg, Carol Lazare, Shawn Hewitt)
A scientist invents a teleportation device, but accidentally splices his DNA with that of a housefly when testing it.
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Messiah Of Evil (Dead People) (Country: US; Year: 1973; Director: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz; Writer: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz; Stars: Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Joy Bang, Anitra Ford, Royal Dano, Elisha Cook Jr)
A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
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Scanners (Country: Canada; Year: 1981; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg; Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside, Robert A Silverman)
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
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Videodrome (Country: Canada; Year: 1983; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg; Stars: James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlson, Jack Creley)
Looking for the next big thing, a cable TV station programmer finds himself losing control in the grip of a phenomenon that is ready to alter reality forever.
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