The 10 Most Cronenbergian Movies Not Directed by David Cronenberg, Ranked

Movies like The Thing and The Substance can be called Cronenbergian because they contain unsettling violence, body horror, and general weirdness.

March 24, 2025 · 1 min · 57 words · Adam Krause

And, when it wants to be, its also thoroughly stomach-churning.

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A silhouette of a man with a light shining from his head in a poster for The Thing.

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Sarah Polley as Elsa and Delphine Chanéac as Dren in Splice

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Splice Poster

A girl looking at her bloodied hands while lying down on a dark sofa

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A girl sits hunched on the ground in a room with a phone and a bag on the ground in front of her.

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From Beyond Dr. Katherine McDaniels

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The Salaryman with eyes wide open looking ahead in ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’

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A surgeon working on a woman with her face covered in bandages in The Skin I Live In - 2011

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Christopher Abbott as Colin Tate holding a gun in Possessor

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Someone looks down on the stitched-up body of Demi Moore in The Substance

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The Substance

The Skin I Live In