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When I was 17 I had the David Fincher phase that you can expect having seen Fight Club and Se7en for the first time at that age. Somewhere in the middle there were Beat Takeshi movies and drips of John Carpenter and David Lynch. In the last two years it's been Canadian director David Cronenberg with whom I've been most fascinated, but that deserves some qualification. I say fascinated, but my capacity to not act on the things that interest me is impressive. I still haven't seen Videodrome or Shivers or Spider for example. I saw eXistenZ years ago and liked it, everyone knows The Fly, and I was aware of Crash but had never seen it. Lately i came back to him sort of via my admiration for the music of Howard Shore and by the fact that I'd been paying more attention to Mark Kermode, who is an admirer of his. But I can equally lay the blame at China Miéville and by association the Vandermeers and their discussion of Clive Barker. It's body horror that's the thing, you see. That's the subgenre and the essence of what I'm looking at here. Disease, transformation, bursting and breaking down of the human being.