Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
(Day of the Week), Dates 2026
7:00 - 9:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$___Paid Patreon Members / $___ General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
In 1975, when Canadian writer/director David Cronenberg unleashed his first feature film SHIVERS, he not only used grisly horror as his vessel to help birth commercial Canadian cinema, he inadvertently laid the ground work to forge an entirely new form of genre cinema, commonly referred to as "body horror", a term that the filmmaker himself has never quite been comfortable with when describing his work. And though the success (and notoriety) of SHIVERS would lead to a succession of pictures that saw the human form both dissolving and evolving - films like RABID, THE BROOD, VIDEODROME and THE FLY - there indeed is so much more to the work of David Cronenberg than meets the flesh, more than just the transformation of the physical self. In this six-class course, filmmaker and author Chris Alexander will lead an evolving discussion and in-depth examination surrounding Cronenberg's entire oeuvre, from those early days with sexually deviant parasitic plagues, phallic armpit vampires, television-induced terror and Kafka-esque mutations through his more dramatic and psychologically shocking thrillers right up to his most recent, painfully personal work. Here, we will explore this maverick movie-maker's singular vision while also exploring the many ways in which these incredible works of "strange cinema" have influenced world culture, pop and otherwise.
Chris Alexander is a Canadian-based writer, filmmaker and music composer. He is the former editor-in-chief of iconic horror film magazine Fangoria and the editor-in-chief/co-founder of Delirium magazine as well as the writer, director and composer of numerous avant-garde feature horror movies, including Queen of Blood, Space Vampire, Scream of the Blind Dead, Parasite Lady, Drakulon, Female Werewolf and the documentary Cronenberg: The Early Years. He was a professor of horror film history at Canada’s Sheridan College and is the author of both the bestselling book Corman/Poe, released in 2023 and the film essay and interview compendium Art! Trash! Terror!, available now from Britain’s Headpress Publishing.
Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
(Day of the Week), Dates 2026
7:00 - 9:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$___Paid Patreon Members / $___ General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
In 1975, when Canadian writer/director David Cronenberg unleashed his first feature film SHIVERS, he not only used grisly horror as his vessel to help birth commercial Canadian cinema, he inadvertently laid the ground work to forge an entirely new form of genre cinema, commonly referred to as "body horror", a term that the filmmaker himself has never quite been comfortable with when describing his work. And though the success (and notoriety) of SHIVERS would lead to a succession of pictures that saw the human form both dissolving and evolving - films like RABID, THE BROOD, VIDEODROME and THE FLY - there indeed is so much more to the work of David Cronenberg than meets the flesh, more than just the transformation of the physical self. In this six-class course, filmmaker and author Chris Alexander will lead an evolving discussion and in-depth examination surrounding Cronenberg's entire oeuvre, from those early days with sexually deviant parasitic plagues, phallic armpit vampires, television-induced terror and Kafka-esque mutations through his more dramatic and psychologically shocking thrillers right up to his most recent, painfully personal work. Here, we will explore this maverick movie-maker's singular vision while also exploring the many ways in which these incredible works of "strange cinema" have influenced world culture, pop and otherwise.
Chris Alexander is a Canadian-based writer, filmmaker and music composer. He is the former editor-in-chief of iconic horror film magazine Fangoria and the editor-in-chief/co-founder of Delirium magazine as well as the writer, director and composer of numerous avant-garde feature horror movies, including Queen of Blood, Space Vampire, Scream of the Blind Dead, Parasite Lady, Drakulon, Female Werewolf and the documentary Cronenberg: The Early Years. He was a professor of horror film history at Canada’s Sheridan College and is the author of both the bestselling book Corman/Poe, released in 2023 and the film essay and interview compendium Art! Trash! Terror!, available now from Britain’s Headpress Publishing.
