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Gabriel Taylor 3DCB's avatar

Just saw film this last night.

I read the beginning of your write up before and the rest that has plot synopsis today.

Great review and g

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Gabriel Taylor 3DCB's avatar

rest film.

It really was a fever dream and a heck of a ride.

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DR Darke's avatar

::he’s also deeply influenced by Phillip K. Dick. Davey’s lad is fascinated by issues of identity and reality and madness and the frazzled blurring and destruction of the lines separating the three. ::

So is David Cronenberg - that's what both VIDEODROME and DEAD RINGERS was about.

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Nathan Rabin's avatar

yeah, there's a lot of overlap. I'm going through Stuart Gordon's filmography and he does body horror so often and so well that it could be referred to as Gordonian body horror as well. It just doesn't sound as good.

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Brent's avatar

I lol’d hard at the book sales comment.

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Nathan Rabin's avatar

Yes, it's a "joke" rather than a bitter statement of fact.

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