Aahhh David Cronenberg. Just saying or writing his name take she back to my carefree, youthful days in the 1980's when I first discovered his films. THEY CAME FROM WITHIN, RABID, SCANNERS, etc ... Cronenberg always had a lot to say and he always said it in his own voice!!The film I was most drawn too was his VIDEODROME. I can still remember the first time I watched it. I was around 14-15 years old and after the film ended I had no idea what I just watched. So I rewound my videocassette and immediately watched it again. Upon my second viewing I still had no idea what I just watched (oh I'd have done anything to have the internet back then), but I knew it was unique and I knew it was important.

When Cronenberg started going a little more mainstream and getting away from the horror genre (but let's face it; has he ever really abandoned the horror genre??) I was still drawn to his films. DEAD RINGERS, NAKED LUNCH, CRASH ... just try and argue these don't have one foot in the horror genre. Well Cronenberg is back with COSMOPOLIS, the story of a disillusioned billionaire. The film is written and directed by David Cronenberg (based on a novel by Don DeLillo) and stars Mr. Sparkly himself, Robert Pattinson, Jay Baruchel, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton, and Kevin Durand. Here's the plot crunch:

Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.

Yeah yeah yeah; I know this doesn't sound like it's in the genre, but it is Cronenberg and that man could twist around a Hallmark greeting card to sound devious and evil. So it may not be hardcore horror or anything but it looks like it'll be a glimpse of a near-future we might not want to live in. Now check out the new trailer:

What do you think?

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