David Cronenberg
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously scarred...
5) Videodrome
Series
Criterion collection volume 248
Language
English
Description
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
6) Scanners
Series
Criterion collection volume 712
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
7) Dead ringers
Series
Criterion collection volume 21
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The story of identical twin gynecologists -- suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, opposite sides of one personality -- who share the same practice, the same apartment, and the same women. Then one special woman enters their lives. The twins, their bizarre bond threatened for the first time, descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs and madness.
8) M. Butterfly
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Story of a French diplomat and a Beijing Opera star who carry on a love affair over almost 20 years before the diplomat discovers something shocking about his lover.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The Fly: Seth Brundle develops a system to transport objects in a matter of seconds, but when he tries it on himself, Seth's genes and molecules are accidently fused with those of a fly. At first Seth is elated by his new physical abilities but soon his excitement turns into a nightmare as his insect half begins to take over. The Fly 2: Terrifying sequel to "The Fly", a young man, the son of a human fly, awaits a horrifying transformation when the...
10) Spider
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Upon his release from a mental institution, Spider takes up residence in a halfway house. Paranoid, quiet, and forever making notes, Spider spends much of his time remembering his youth, specifically a horrific event from his childhood that occurred after he came to believe that his father was having an affair.
Publisher
Distributed by WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
David Cronenberg talks about his films and the making of them, provides a brief autobiographical introduction of how he got started in his career and follows with film reminiscences giving insights about the production, the casting process, studios, the industry and experiences with collaborators.
13) Cosmopolis
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Little does he know his perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dead zone (1983, 103 min., special collector's ed.) : After being in a coma for years, a man awakens with strange psychic abilities that come into effect whenever he touches someone.
Pet sematary (1989, 102 min., special collector's ed.) : Louis and Rachel Creed and their two young children settle into a house that sits next door to a pet cemetery built on an ancient Indian burial ground. Their mysterious new neighbor hides the cemetery's darkest...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
The stand: The U.S. government denies that there's a problem when the horrifying deaths begin, but within a few days, only one percent of the world's population is left alive after a deadly virus escapes from a California research lab. The shattered remnants of humanity face the end of civilization and the beginning of the ultimate battle between good and evil.
The Langoliers:...
