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Cronenbergian

Cronenbergian meaning

Of or pertaining to David Paul Cronenberg (1943-), Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter and one of the principal originators of the body horror genre, or to his works. | Pertaining to body horror.

Example sentences (3)

Director Ángel Manuel Soto plays things safe with a breezy origin story that harkens back to Sam Raimi’s original Spider-Man, with a little - but not enough - Cronenbergian body horror for good measure.

In doing so, he cemented a new genre that studied bodily horrors with a cerebral chill while giving the film lexicon a brand-new adjective: Cronenbergian.

We could quibble about whether qualifies as an “anime” or “anime-inspired derivative” or some Cronenbergian hybrid until the sun goes down and the wraiths pick our bones clean, but none of those speak to the quality of the series itself.