Me too.

See this for some profound background of the film:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Interview-with-filmdirector-David-Cronenberg-about-Crash

i liked cronenberg's crash. TAKE THAT!

*meme

cronenberg should make a movie about it...

Alphabetical order:
Darren Aronovsky, Jane Campion, David Cronenberg, Werner Herzog, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Takeshi Kitano, Harmony Korine, David Lynch, Lukas Moodysson, Jafar Panahi, Ridley Scott, Todd Solondz, Jan Švankmajer, Andrey Tarkovsky, Jacques Tati, Lars von Trier..

Top 10 in no particular order:
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Pedro Almodovar, Joel and Ethan Coen, David Cronenberg, Quentin Tarantino, Lars von Trier, Emir Kusturica, Andrey Tarkovsky, Takashi Miike, Errol Morris

well, you know Jacob's Ladder is a top fave of mine. and SotL.
but, not so much horror, to me.

so, after careful deliberation, and in
no particular order, as that would be unnecessary, and impossible for me:

The Omen -+- Jaws -+- Creepshow

The Ring -+- The Thing -+- The Shining (The... Sting? )

American Werewolf in London

The Fly (Cronenberg) -+- Alien -+- Psycho

next 5: Salem's Lot, Exorcist, Halloween, Nosferatu, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
and Fright Night was a surprisingly good B flick.
i'll sift the trailer if i can find it tonight.

the surprise? i'm the only one to mention 4 of my Top 10!

THANK YOU!!

Soupskin and I rented that because it is Cronenberg and we were so stoked to watch it.... what a HUGE disappointment!! We both felt EXACTLY as you did about it.... "WTF? that's IT?! he's... actually a killer after all... that's it.... thats the great Cronenberg movie they were raving about... HUH?"

THank you. Absolutely agree on that one. Totally.

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
A History of Violence.

By far the dumbest, stupidest, wholly unsatisfactory movie I have seen in the last couple of years. Crap movies are okay, you know they are crap, I know they are crap but at least we can sit back and laugh at them.

However a History of Violence was marked by masturbatory levels of press coverage, citing that it dared to be different and cover violence in new and surprising ways. What a crock of shit that was, I was more disgusted by the sheer adulation lauded on the film by critics, I wondered if they and I watched the same damn movie. All I saw was some poorly constructed 'man-living-another-life' story, that somehow leads him to kill a bunch of people and then kill a bunch more and turns out he was actually what he was. Oh wow!

Its telling that years later the movie still pisses me off.

Be very afraid.

(from Cronenberg's exquisite 'The Fly')

hey, someone had to say it in reply!

Cronenberg has turned an interesting corner in his career with his two latest films: A History of Violence and Eastern Promises. They are somewhat more rooted in reality than the bodyhorror genre he helped create (The Fly, Videodrome, etc.)

His best film, to my mind, is still Dead Ringers mostly thanks to Jeremy Iron's stunning double-performance as the twins.

See Cronenberg's filmography:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/
I can recommend all of his films

In reply to this comment by eff:
cronenberg did an adaptation of JG ballard's Crash novel... i thought that was a neat choice, considering how dark the theme. i'm interested to see what other films he's directed

cronenberg did an adaptation of JG ballard's Crash novel... i thought that was a neat choice, considering how dark the theme. i'm interested to see what other films he's directed

Long live the new flesh!

And yeah, I always heard lines from this movie in music but never knew their source until I rented it on a Cronenberg spree. Crazy stuff.

This movie felt like a fundraiser for all of Cronenberg's other self-important crap. Don't get me wrong I think he's talented, but disdain for your audience only gets you so far...

These themes were also explored in Cronenbergs "eXistenZ"

I think Eraserhead and The Elephant Man were amazing films, and I even give props to Lynch on trying to make a Dune movie.

But this is horrible. Odd for odds sake, violence for violence sake. Both Lynch and David Cronenberg need to get off their high stools.