A cheeky exploration of in/out-group dynamics, Spider Baby takes us into the decrepit Los Angeles estate of the Merrye family descendants, sterile genetic defectives suffering from a condition that makes them revert to atavistic, cannibal behavior. This includes offing the poor local postie, slicing him to bits after trapping him in a web, but not beforeContinue reading “Spider Baby”
Tag Archives: 60s movies
Stereo
Is abstract thought possible without language? David Cronenberg’s first full-length feature, the silent (save for voiceovers) STEREO, explores this very question with telepathist test subjects isolated on the brutalist commuter campus of the University of Toronto, Scarborough. As Steven Pinker put it in The Stuff of Thought, “We know that human thoughts are stored in memory* inContinue reading “Stereo”
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