Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to David Paul Cronenberg (1943-), Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter and one of the principal originators of the body horror genre, or to his works.
Etymologies
- Cronenberg + -ian (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Or am I engaged in an odyssey of nigh-Cronenbergian self-mutilation, as I try to see how quickly I can cripple my drawing hand by grinding out 200 pages of pencil-heavy artwork over ludicrously short timeframes?”
“This looks like a crazy, dark, Cronenbergian genre film, and to have it bow in the summer?”
“Splice is a weird one; a Cronenbergian body-horror romp from Vincenzo Natali that occupies a strange space between the sexual scrunge of Shivers and Rabid and the surreal mugwump mutations of The Naked Lunch.”
“Nola Carveth is a patient at the Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmatics, a typically creepy, mysterious and, basically, Cronenbergian medical facility.”
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“All of the flirting, namedropping icky anatomy terms, and performing cunnilingus under lamp light with abortion crazies protesting gave us Cronenbergian chills.”
“Maybe next time someone does that I go all Cronenbergian on their arse?”
“Romeroesque, yes; Cronenbergian, certainly... and Boyleish as all hell, but the hodgepodge mostly works.”
“There is also something of the Cronenbergian hero in Esther, seeking renewal and change through extreme bodily transformations: she recalls both the grotesque mutilations of Cronenberg's 70s work and the sexual perversity of his adaptation of J.G. Ballard's Crash, in which Rosanna Arquette plays a woman whose crippled legs are marked by vagina-like ridges, sexualized scars.”
“Speaking of Cronenbergian things, I'm told that my Millipede Press book on VIDEODROME is proceeding nicely and now in the photo selection/clean-up stage.”
“Theres even a hint of homoerotic energy that appears to charge a violent conflict in a Turkish bathhouse that involves Nikolai and contains enough naked flesh and graphic brutality to be labeled characteristically Cronenbergian.”
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