The David's. The best of Cronenberg and Lynch.

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The David's. The best of Cronenberg and Lynch.

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1. Shivers (1975)

R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

58 Metascore

The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Allan Kolman

Votes: 23,579

Cronenbergs first feature film. A solid effort that started the twisted sex thing turning.

2. The Grandmother (1970)

Not Rated | 34 min | Animation, Short, Horror

A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Dorothy McGinnis, Richard White, Virginia Maitland, Robert Chadwick

Votes: 7,355

A short film available on "The Short Films of David Lynch". In my opinion, the most telling film in the collection. The first real glimpse into the Lynchian Universe.

3. The Brood (1979)

R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

63 Metascore

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman

Votes: 34,309

I love it. I love the story and Oliver Reed's performance.

4. Eraserhead (1977)

Not Rated | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror

87 Metascore

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates

Votes: 127,454 | Gross: $7.00M

The first of Lynch's Masterpieces. There is something very unsettling about this movie. Bit I won't bore anyone with a re hash of what has been said a 1000 times before. If you like it dark, see Eraserhead.

5. Scanners (1981)

R | 103 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

60 Metascore

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.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane

Votes: 61,746 | Gross: $14.23M

Truly not one of my favorite Cronenberg movies, I can't get past the terrible acting by the lead, But it did introduce the ultra violence by way of an exploding head. A quintessential Cronenberg device.

6. The Elephant Man (1980)

PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama

78 Metascore

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud

Votes: 258,432

The straightest Lynch plays it until The Straight Story. Disturbing and beautiful in its own right.

7. Videodrome (1983)

R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

58 Metascore

A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky

Votes: 102,971 | Gross: $2.12M

Perverted, disturbing, ridiculous, and crudely philosophical. Sex and violence start to merge. Classic.

8. Blue Velvet (1986)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

75 Metascore

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern

Votes: 215,699 | Gross: $8.55M

Talk about sex and violence merging. Frank Booth: Rapist, kidnapping, woman beating, gas snorting, mommy obsessed, velvet fetishist. There you go.

9. The Fly (1986)

R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

81 Metascore

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel

Votes: 201,883 | Gross: $40.46M

First time Cronenberg really gets to flex his flair for directing. This movie, although still gory enough, appeals to an audience beyond horror/sci/fi fans. Goldblum is great.

10. Wild at Heart (1990)

R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

52 Metascore

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, J.E. Freeman

Votes: 100,953 | Gross: $14.56M

This movie proves my Nicholas Cage theory. Give him a straight role=terrible. Give him something insane to sink his crazy ass teeth into=brilliant. Humor, violence, sex, and the wizard of oz.

11. Dead Ringers (1988)

R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

86 Metascore

Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon

Votes: 53,574 | Gross: $9.13M

As much a triumph for Cronenberg as in is For Jeremy Irons. Great story telling, great acting. Eased up on the violence but twisted the heck out of the sexual content. Twin brother ob/gyn's toying with the emotions and body of an infertile, aging actress.

12. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

R | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

45 Metascore

Laura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook

Votes: 105,157 | Gross: $4.16M

I had to go with the movie over the tv show solely because the show was off the air by the time I grew to appreciate David Lynch. Both are wacky and weird and certainly important when considering David Lynch's Catalog of work.

13. Naked Lunch (1991)

R | 115 min | Drama, Mystery

67 Metascore

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands

Votes: 56,654 | Gross: $2.54M

Awesome, trippy, odd, and very Cronenberg.

14. Lost Highway (1997)

R | 134 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

53 Metascore

Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito

Votes: 153,182 | Gross: $3.80M

Ah, Lost Highway. Maybe my favorite. I've seen it a 1000 times. Probably see it a 1000 more. Please don't theorize about it, just shut up and watch it. Thank you.

15. Crash (1996)

NC-17 | 100 min | Drama

53 Metascore

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger

Votes: 66,362 | Gross: $2.04M

MVA Fetishists. Do they really exist? Who cares. It's the perfect subject for Cronenberg to tackle. Saw this in London with a couple of fair weather movie fans. They didn't know what to make of it.

16. The Straight Story (1999)

G | 112 min | Biography, Drama

86 Metascore

An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter

Votes: 97,455 | Gross: $6.20M

David Lynch plays it straight and tells a touching story.

17. Spider (2002)

R | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

83 Metascore

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave

Votes: 41,126 | Gross: $1.64M

A slightly softer edge from Cronenberg dealing with the schizophrenic mind.

18. Mulholland Drive (2001)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

86 Metascore

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates

Votes: 383,803 | Gross: $7.22M

I think that Lynch kind of took cues from himself with this one. The similarities in plot development between this and Lost Highway are very striking in my opinion. This Story seemed to almost satirize Hollywood though. Pretty great.

19. A History of Violence (2005)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

82 Metascore

A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt

Votes: 252,819 | Gross: $31.49M

Cronenberg's exploration of the potential duality of man.

20. Inland Empire (2006)

R | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

73 Metascore

As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura Dern

Votes: 61,936 | Gross: $0.75M

Again I think this was almost a progression on a theme for Lynch. Staying in Hollywood, Stepping out of the character driven story, and into the characters brain. difficult to make sense of. Again, don't think too hard, just watch it spill out in front of you.

21. Eastern Promises (2007)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

83 Metascore

A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Josef Altin

Votes: 261,115 | Gross: $17.11M

Cronenberg teams up with Viggo Mortensen a second time to explore morality, family, violence, the duality of man, loyalty, love, and the Russian Mafia. Great on many levels.



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