#Caitlin Cronenberg

[goryhorroor]

horror legends + their legacies

[jinxproof]

© Caitlin Cronenberg

[bitchtoss]

Chloë Sevigny photographed by Caitlin Cronenberg, 2017

[davidhudson]

Happy 75th, Martin Short.

With Steve Martin. Photo by Caitlin Cronenberg.

[izzylimon]

I don´t know about you

But I don´t like living in a world where David Lynch and David Cronenberg struggle to find financing and distribution for their relatively small projects, even though they both have a dedicated and fervent fanbase and Eli Fucking Roth gets $120 million dollars to butcher and make a box office disaster out of "Borderlands".

[moviemosaics]

Humane

directed by Caitlin Cronenberg, 2024

[cannibalspicnic]

David Cronenberg

photographed by Caitlin Cronenberg

[purple-drawgonwriter]

I just watched Humane. Good stuff. Caitlin Cronenberg’s debut movie is very different from her father’s or brother’s work. Not so much body horror; more domestic horror in a dysfunctional family of rich assholes, like Ready or Not or You’re Next, but all catalyzed by wild stuff going on at the societal level too, so maybe more like The Purge. Some of the social commentary seems to run in the family even if the aesthetic is different.

Also, it’s so funny watching Jay Beruchel be the biggest douchebag while he still sounds like Hiccup HTTYD to me.

Anyway, now we have three Cronenbergs making great movies, hell yeah! Any others wanna step up? Maybe we can get some weird Cronenberg cousins coming out of the woodwork like they’re the Addams family or something?

[ierofrnkk]

my favorite insane + hot sibling duo

[haverwood]

The Death of David Cronenberg David Cronenberg, Caitlin Cronenberg Canada, 2021

I watched this.

[jinxproof]

© Caitlin Cronenberg

[robfanforlife]

L'Uomo Vogue (2012). Photographer: Caitlin Cronenberg.

[whalleyrulz]

halloween 2024

13) HUMANE

whew i'm sorry i hate being negative about art but damn

so you know when hot people think they're funny, because people who want to fuck them have enabled them for ages? so their "jokes" are really just "hey isn't it funny that i'm saying this" or worse, are some shit where all of the setup and half the punchline is in their head, and they don't telegraph anything, and you're left like "is that it?" and they and their sycophants get upset because you just Don't Get It?

i could say humane is in the same family as Ready Or Not. i really want to. the movie really wants me to. jay baruschel really wants me to. god, he so badly wanted to be in the version of this movie that can be in conversation with Knives Out. enrico colantoni was screaming to be in that movie

but nepotism doesn't lead to learning how to make a good movie. nepotism leads to, in the case of caitlin's older brother, a mean-spirited bad chauvinistic mess propped up by mia goth. or, in the case of this movie, fucking boring-ass nothing, but at least there was more than one performance to write home about

humane is a movie set in a climate collapse future where all the world governments have pledged to reduce their population through government-run death camps. but don't worry, it somehow manages to avoid being political, despite one character being a former political correspondent and another a current political talking head. we follow a rich family as the parents enlist to be killed, but the matriarch can't go through with it--but get this, the death van people need two bodies, because that's just how things go

it's honestly not a bad setup (even if it took way too long to get to the point) and that's what made me so mad. the arrival of the death van was full of governmental farce and a super strong performance in the lead and then, gasp, get this: the rich people turn on each other gosh how shocking. they're cutthroat and self centered but, shock, the disabled drug addict outsider kid has a heart of gold. whoda thunk. if you watch this, you'll spend most of the movie waiting for an interesting twist. it doesn't happen. it's just boring

someone needs to tell the rich they're not inherently interesting

and someone needs to tell the cronenberg kids to stop making movies that seem like a goddamn parody of their dad's friends. write what you know doesn't mean your life is inherently interesting, it means don't just half ass your decisions. it means put yourself into the real shoes of your characters. make your fiction believable and honest. because this shit sucks, y'all

i'm just so mad that both of one of my favorite director's kids have been able to make shitty fuckin movies and yet really good interesting exciting artists have their screenplays die on the vine. there's not infinite money and time for movies. stop letting the wealthy make expensive art

and goddamn stop surrounding yourself with sycophants if you're trying to be funny jesus christ if you're not being interesting then black comedy is boring and mean and so goddamn tired

1. late night with the devil | 2. history of the occult | 3. destroy all neighbors | 4. lisa frankenstein | 5. monolith | 6. escape the undertaker | 7. hellraiser | 8. v/h/s beyond | 9. in a violent nature | 10. x | 11. pearl | 12. longlegs

[ineffablerat]

Adam Driver on the set of What If/TheF Word 📸 by caitcronenberg on Instagram

[fordhampr]

TODAY IS NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY! Here's how we can celebrate our films and filmmakers....

Today, April 17th, is National Canadian Film Day (CanFilmDay), presented by REEL CANADA, which will shine a spotlight on Canadian films so distinct, delightful, eccentric, and profoundly human that even the most advanced Artificial Intelligence couldn’t conceive them!  The 2024 programming spotlight, Films That A.I. Could Never Make, reaffirms that no algorithm can embody the essence, or conjure…

[filmhabits]

Humane - Poster

Releases April 26, 2024 (USA)