https://vo.rs/tags/brandon-cronenberg/Latest from the Brandon Cronenberg desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/possessor-brandon-cronenberg-inherits-the-family-scalpel/<p>The nepotism question is unavoidable, so let us dispatch it first: yes, Brandon Cronenberg is David Cronenberg&rsquo;s son, and yes, he makes cold, clinical, flesh-obsessed science fiction about technology invading the body. And having conceded all of that, <em>Possessor</em> (2020) is the film that proves the inheritance is real rather than borrowed. The younger Cronenberg took the family preoccupations — the porous boundary between mind and meat, the machine that gets under the skin, the horror of a self that can be edited — and pushed them somewhere his father never quite went: into the sheer physical agony of <em>being two people at once</em>. It is a brutal, beautiful, genuinely upsetting film, and it announces a director who earned the scalpel he was handed.</p>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000