Word: aarrgh
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...David Cronenberg's films, things are always going bump! or aarrgh! or sploooosh! in the night. With They Came from Within, Rabid, The Brood and now Scanners, Cronenberg, 37, has joined the estimable company of John Carpenter and George Romero as a low-budget mahatma of the macabre. Like Carpenter's The Fog and Romero's Dawn of the Dead, Cronenberg's movies are hip parables of contemporary moral malaise, in which ordinary people are infected by a malignancy as invisible and pervasive as the most swinish flu virus. As his vision aged, like rancid fruit...
...Hollywood performances miss the point. If Lack, McGoohan and Heroine Jennifer O'Neill act like mannequins in a punk boutique window, fine. At any moment-at least in a David Cronenberg movie-the figures could escape to the street, walk up to you and bump! aarrgh! sploooosh...
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