First Look: Cosmopolis Is Here!

Oh yeah, baby.

Remember when I told you with deep sincerity that you needed to have one eye trained on the work of one David Cronenberg? Yeah, well the warning sirens just sounded and the trailer for his much anticipated Cosmopolis saw the light of day this week.

I thought for sure it would be months until we saw some sort of official teaser for this movie but in a divinely perverse twist, we got what we wanted before we even knew to ask for it. In what is perhaps the most brilliantly bizarre match up since cottage cheese met pinapple, the unlikely pairing of Robert Pattinson and Cronenberg appears to promise great things.

Frankly, all of you people need to strip yourselves of whatever expectations you might have for this film and just go on this sex and violence fueled romp across town in the limo without the baggage you usually carry into the theater. If you can just let go and trust David, it looks like you are in for one hell of a ride.

Here's the NSFW teaser trailer:

Revisiting David Cronenberg

I've just been to the strangest of places. Taking a walk through the caverns of the Baron Of Blood's grey matter isn't a task for the faint of heart. It's a horrific labyrinth of dripping walls and twisted psychological dead ends that keep you awake for hours wondering if you've really seen such things.

Systematically overlooked by the industry, David Cronenberg developed a hard-won reputation as one of the most outrageous but compelling directors working today but his success hasn't come without its detractors. His career has spanned over four decades and traverses such dangerous ground as "body horror" (if you aren't quite sure what that is. give it a look as you're sure to get a fright), the complexities of psychological unreality, and the terror of what might be considered by some to be unfilmable.

If you look over his body of work carefully, you see the progression and complexity of his films continue to escalate until you begin to wonder if the man who made The Brood is indeed the same director who helmed A History Of Violence and Eastern Promises. Because we are nothing if not thorough in our movie-watching habits, we embarked on a nonstop Cronenberg film festival to watch the slow-creeping progression from the very beginning.

The Brood

We started with the earliest movie we could get our hands on: The Brood, which I remember having nightmares about after watching it on a late night cable channel during my childhood. There's a psychologist, weird therapy methods, and a group of mutant children causing all kinds of crazy shenanigans. I had to pause and worry for a few minutes that I could use the movie's tag line for the life I'm currently living. But I digress. It's disturbing cautionary tale about the bizarre manifestation of rage and a resounding thud of disapproval for psychiatrists everywhere! Yay, therapy!