Repo Man director Alex Cox calls David Cronenberg a renegade scientist from America's top secret Fort Dietrick laboratories, desperate to tell the world about the latest in genetic viruses, cyborg technology and hyper-toxic venereal diseases. This film has none of those, but it does have mutants -- a theme common to The Brood, Dead Ringers and ExistenZ. Though he'd been making feature films since 1969, it wasn't until this film was released in 1981 that the general public became aware of Cronenberg and his dark philosophy.

Ganja and Hess is a film that exists in an odd sort of limbo -- while a handful
of fans (among them Spike Lee, James Monaco, and Tim Lucas) consider it a
masterpiece, the film has been so inaccessible for so long that plenty of
knowledgeable film enthusiasts have never even heard of it, and until recently
most interested film buffs were forced to make do with the incoherent short
version of the film (variously titled Double Possession, Blood Couple, and Black
Vampire, among other things) which was ineptly re-cut to more easily sell the

HONG KONG -- Bong Joon-Ho takes a page from the Hollywood horror machine for his latest, a boxoffice monster both literally and figuratively. With "The Host" Bong has pulled together a multilayered horror-drama that works more often than not. The film gets back on track after a clumsy middle section that's too long and finishes strong, and Bong fans, horror fans and Asiaphiles are likely to be thoroughly satisfied. There's a chance for moderate breakout success overseas.