So why did Cronenberg change his mind and make this return to the body horror arena?

“There is no such thing as the body horror arena,” insists the director.

“You have to accept that.

David Cronenberg attends the New York premiere of “Crimes of the Future” at Walter Reade Theater on June 02, 2022 in New York City.

David Cronenberg.Taylor Hill/FilmMagic

For critics and fans [it exists], but creatively it doesn’t exist for me.

It totally doesn’t.

It wasn’t really specific to the so-called arena.

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

Viggo Mortensen in Crimes of the Future.Everett Collection

Every movie is the same to me in terms of what I do.

It’s getting the dialog to work, casting it properly, lighting, all of that stuff.

I ignore it basically.

For me, this movie is another movie.

It’s no different fromA Dangerous MethodorCosmopolisto me.”

“That throwsmeoff because that’s never the movie that I thought we were making.”

Watch the trailer forCrimes of the Futurebelow.

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