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A scene from David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch (1991), featuring Peter Weller in a fedora and trench coat, smoking a cigarette beside a grotesque, insect-like creature.

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Exclusive David Cronenberg Season to Be Held at the BFI

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The BFI is set to celebrate the world of body-horror director David Cronenberg with a series of thematic programmes.

Mind, Body, Reality season, a celebration of David Cronenberg’s films, is set to take place in London early next year. One of the masters of oddities, sci-fi, and horror is getting his own dedicated film season courtesy of the British Film Institute (BFI), featuring a range of the director’s best work, including some lesser-known and hard-to-come-by titles.

Watch the trailer for David Cronenberg's surreal film 'Naked Lunch', starring Peter Weller.

From January, the body-horror creator will descend on London with a schedule for aficionados in a programme rollout consisting of three phases. They are Mutated Identities, Diseased Realities, and Bodies in Collision.

Curator of the David Cronenberg: Mind, Body, Reality season, Mike Muncer, said: “For over 50 years, the Canadian filmmaker has consistently pushed the envelope of genre filmmaking with confrontational movies that combine pulpy thrills with big, intellectual and philosophical ideas.”

Ralph Fiennes in David Cronenberg’s Spider (2002), wearing a dark jacket and staring intensely through a web of tangled strings while holding them between his fingers. Image credit: © BFI National Archive
A still from the 2002 David Cronenberg film Spider, starring Ralph Fiennes.

Fans of the filmmaker will get a chance to experience some of his body-horror exploits in their original 35mm format on the big screen, screams and all included. Some notable titles that stand out include the rarely available movie Naked Lunch (1991), starring Peter Weller (RoboCop, 1987), and, widely considered to be one of Cronenberg’s finest works, Crash (1996).

Book Tickets

To book film tickets and access events, BFI patrons can reserve seats from 30 November 2026, with BFI members able to book from 1 December onwards, directly through the BFI website, including IMAX screenings.

Film Schedule

Mutated Identities

  1. Shivers (1975)
  2. Videodrome (Director’s Cut) (1983)
  3. Dead Ringers (1988)
  4. M. Butterfly (1993)
  5. Spider (2002)
  6. Maps to the Stars (2014)
  7. Crimes of the Future (2022)

Diseased Realities

  1. The Brood (1979)
  2. The Dead Zone (1983)
  3. Nightbreed (Director’s Cut) (1990)
  4. Naked Lunch (1991)
  5. eXistenZ (1999)
  6. Cosmopolis (2012)
  7. The Shrouds (2024)

Bodies in Collision

  1. Rabid (1977)
  2. Fast Company (1979)
  3. Scanners (1981)
  4. The Fly (1986)
  5. Crash (1996)
  6. A History of Violence (2005)
  7. Eastern Promises (2007)
  8. A Dangerous Method (2011)
  9. Jason X (2002)

Photo: © BFI National Archive

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Ash Thomas

Ash Thomas is a professional videographer writer specialising in music, pop culture (especially the comic book scene), and film. His personal interests lie in comic book adaptations to film, and he has a strong voice on what works and what doesn’t.

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