David "Baron of Blood" Cronenberg
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Marilyn Chambers stars as Rose, a woman who undergoes an experimental plastic surgery gone wrong.
She has developed the taste of blood and her victims are turning into blood-thirsty zombies, now there is a city-wide epidemic on the rise.
The Brood (1979)
The unconventional therapy techniques of Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) on institutionalized wife, Nola Carveth (Samantha Eggar) has husband, Frank Carveth (Art Hindle) investigating, while brutal attacks are committed by a brood of mutant children.
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Scanners (1981)
Doctor Paul Ruth (Patrick McGoohan) recruits Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack) to hunt Darryl Revok (Michael Ironside), one the most powerful of scanners, who has formed an underground scanner movement for world domination.
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Videodrome (1983)
Max Renn (James Woods) is a sleazy cable-TV programmer, while looking for new material to show, he discovers "Videodrome". He sends girlfriend, Nicki Brand (Deborah Harry) to audition for the show and Max is drawn into an underlying plot for a global conspiracy.
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The Dead Zone (1983)
In this Stephen King addapted novel, Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) awakens from a coma after a brutal car accident to discover he has the gift of psychic powers. As he takes on the role of a psychic detective, he realizes that it might not be such a gift after all.
The Fly (1986)
Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), a brilliant but eccentric scientist attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis) by offering her a scoop on his latest research in the field of matter transportation. Believing that he has worked out all of the problems, he conducts the experiment on himself only to discover that he is taking on a transformation of some sort after the experiment goes horribly wrong.
The Mantle brothers (Jeremy Irons), indentical twins and gynecologists share everything including women, until an actress, Claire Niveau (Geneviรจve Bujold), enters their clinic and lives causing their relationship to deteriorate.
Naked Lunch (1992)
Not an adaptation of William S. Burrough's novel but more of a semi-autobiography. Bill Lee (Peter Weller) is a drug addict and exterminator who accidentally kills his wife (Judy Davis) in his drug-induced, paranoid state and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
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In this morbid and dark tale, a TV director (James Spader) after being involved in a devastating car accident discovers an underground sub-culture of brutally scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car-crashes to get sexually charged.
eXistenZ (1999)
After an assassination attempt, Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a leading game designer, flees with young marketing trainee, Ted Pikul (Jude Law), who becomes her new appointed bodyguard. Allegra then talks Ted into playing her new game "eXistenZ" with her to insure that the game hasn't been damaged. Where they set off on a strange adventure where reality and their actions are impossible to determine from either their own or the game's perspective.
Spider (2002)
Institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years, Dennis Clegg (Ralph Fiennes) nicknamed "Spider" is released to a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Never truly recovering, his mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Mild-mannered Tom Stall ( Viggo Mortensen), who becomes a local hero through an act of violence, is visited by a mysterious and threatening man (Ed Harris), who claims Tom wronged him in the past.
As Tom and his family fight back against this case of mistaken identity, Tom's wife (Maria Bello) begins to wonder if her husband has some past secrets.
Midwife, Anna (Naomi Watts), places herself in danger with the Russian mafia when she begins to investigate the findings in a diary of a pregnant teenager who dies during childbirth.
Based on the true events of Dr. Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and young woman patient, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), who came between them.
Cosmopolis (2012)
Wall Street whiz Eric Packer ( Robert Pattinson) rides around in his stretch limo meeting with a cast of characters while caught in Manhattan's gridlock as he helplessly watches his empire fall with the rise of the Chinese yuan. As riots evolve in the streets, paranoia sets in as Packer links the clues to his imminent assassination.