Items Matching Tag 'David Cronenberg'

A History Of Violence (UK) (DVD Details)
Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes action and saves his customers and friends in the self-defence killings of two-sought-after criminals....

Spider (UK) (DVD Details)
Directed by David Cronenberg and adapted for the screen by Patrick McGrath, Spider is a powerful psychological thriller that stars Ralph Fiennes as a strange and lonely man. After a long period in a mental institution - the result of a traumatic childhood - he returns to the streets of the East End of London where he grew up. The sights, sounds and the smells of those streets begin to awaken the...

Dead Zone, The (UK) (DVD Details)
Christopher Walken stars as high-school teacher Johnny Smith, a car-crash victim who wakes up from a 5 year coma with the ability to see into people`s future. Consequently this extra sensory perception enables Johnny to avert several potential disasters and earns him a degree of local celebrity. After his 5 missing years however, Johnny has lost both his job abd his fiance and he longs for his...

Shivers (UK) (DVD Details)
The residents of Starliner Island seem to have an idyllic lifestyle - they live in a remote high-rise tower block with its own shopping complex, recreation facilities and even a private clinic. However, when a mysterious disease takes hold of the Starliner, random acts of sexual violence begin to occur. At the clinic, Dr St Luc struggles to discover a remedy to the encroaching virus before the...

Fly, The 1 & 2 Twin Pack (UK) (DVD Details)
The Fly This frightening, but extremely moving and romantic horror film stars Jeff Goldblum as an over-ambitious scientist who accidentally merges with a housefly while conducting a bizarre teleporting experiment. A journalist (Geena Davis), who has fallen in love with him while covering his scientific endeavors, suddenly finds herself caring for a horrifying creature whose insect half gradually...

Rabid (UK) (DVD Details)
Rabid is the chilling story of Rose and the nightmare that begins when she is critically hurt in a motorbike accident. Rose is placed in the care of pioneer surgeon Dan Keloid, who used daring and experimental surgical procedures to save her life. Though successful, the operation leaves her in a deep comma. During her recovery period, her body responds to the treatment in a terrifying manner, she...

Existenz (UK) (DVD Details)
Exciting stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, and Willam Dafoe, challenge the boundaries of reality in this futuristic, critically acclaimed adventure thriller! During the first closed-door demonstration of an amazing new virtual reality game -`eXistenZ` - the system`s brilliant designer, Allegra Geller (Leigh), is violently attacked by a crazed assassin intent on killing her and destroying...