Liam Gaughan is a writer at Collider with a passion for classic films and the work of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
David Cronenberg is certainly one of the most influential filmmakers to have emerged since the “New Hollywood” era, as he completely redefined the subgenre of “body horror” cinema into a receptacle canon of classics.
'Eastern Promises' Brought David Cronenberg's Ruthlessness to the Gangster Genre Close Perhaps it doesn’t have any singular moments as instantly iconic as the exploding heads in Scanners, but Eastern Promises features some striking moments of violence that only someone with Cronenberg’s bravery would have been capable of. Cronenberg succeeds in showing that, in reality, the gangster lifestyle isn’t as action-packed as it is depicted in the movies.
'Eastern Promises' Has One of Viggo Mortensen's Best Performances Mortensen may have earned international acclaim for his performance as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but Eastern Promises indicated that he was best suited to working on grim character dramas that required complete physical and emotional transformations.
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