David Cronenberg

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q55422: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: The Dead Zone (1983); Cosmopolis (2012); Crimes of the Future (2022); Cronenberg films; body horror. Count them as actor (3 films) instead.

Draws on

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Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (6) everyone in directing

Acting (3) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Howard Shore → David Cronenberg. Shore, once the atonal-music guy, became Cronenberg's go-to composer.
    “He becomes David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese's go-to guys”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 2:03:59 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Robert Altman → David Cronenberg. Altman faces Cronenberg in an interesting vibes matchup.
    “Now, Altman is going to fight fight with Cronenberg.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:41:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → David Cronenberg. The movies emerging from a hole in the lake as VHS tapes come out of a Cronenbergian slit.
    “I love how they come out of that kind of Cronenbergian slit and they're already VHS tapes, you know?”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:01:00 · Adam Nayman (0.55 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): David Cronenberg → David Lynch. Cronenberg is the speaker's Lynch, the director who spoke to his soul at 13 or 14.
    “Pronenberg is kind of my lynch.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:42:28 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

people (5)

  1. people (people): The Dead Zone → David Cronenberg. Koppelman thinks of The Dead Zone as a Cronenberg movie and top-group King.
    “which I think of as a Cronenberg movie, which is absolutely in that top group of Stephen King movies, the dead zone.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:09:31 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Ready or Not sequel → David Cronenberg. The sequel is a Toronto-shot film with Cronenberg as the dying criminal patriarch, and the final girl gets a sister.
    “good performance by David Cronenberg, as the dying criminal patriarch in that Toronto shot film.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:54:14 · Adam Nayman (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. people (same composer): Howard Shore → David Cronenberg. Shore did the weird discordant Cronenberg and Fincher scores.
    “the guy who did the weird discordant Kronenberg and Fincher scores”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Jason X → David Cronenberg. Cronenberg is claimed to appear in Jason X and is recommended as an actor in the Canadian film Last Night.
    “David Cronenberg in that movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:22:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Last Night → David Cronenberg. Cronenberg plays an office manager in the Canadian last-night-on-earth film.
    “And David Cronenberg is in it as like the manager in an office and he's really good in it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:22:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (consonant with): Possession → David Cronenberg. Possession is a precursor to many freak-out movies, consonant with Cronenberg.
    “a precursor to a lot of different kinds of movies, you know, kind of like consonant with David Kronenberg”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:47:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

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