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.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.

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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