Parts of this movie feels like if Tommy Wiseau co-directed Mulholland Dr; I love it.This is definitely a David Cronenberg movie that I will defend despite how, on its surface, it appears to be a travesty. The dialogie is stiff, there is some horrendous special effects, and overall bizarreness, but it's mixed with a sense of genius. This movie simultaneously contains both one of the most disturbing deaths in a Cronenberg film and one of the most laughable. Some parts feel intentionally bad, and it loops around to being amazing. Julianne Moore is incredible in this movie, and this performance literally wouldn't work in any other movie. I forgot how hilarious this movie is, too, building up its campiness to levels hardly seen. This isn't a perfect film in the slightest, far from it, but it contains too much self-awareness to write off; if this gets a Criterion release, I will buy it instantly and show it to people.

Parts of this movie feels like if Tommy Wiseau co-directed Mulholland Dr; I love it.This is definitely a David Cronenberg movie that I will defend despite how, on its surface, it appears to be a travesty. The dialogie is stiff, there is some horrendous special effects, and overall bizarreness, but it's mixed with a sense of genius. This movie simultaneously contains both one of the most disturbing deaths in a Cronenberg film and one of the most laughable. Some parts feel intentionally bad, and it loops around to being amazing. Julianne Moore is incredible in this movie, and this performance literally wouldn't work in any other movie. I forgot how hilarious this movie is, too, building up its campiness to levels hardly seen. This isn't a perfect film in the slightest, far from it, but it contains too much self-awareness to write off; if this gets a Criterion release, I will buy it instantly and show it to people.