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San Francisco Examiner - April 7, 1975 |
50 years ago to the day, David Cronenberg's first movie arrived in San Francisco Bay Area theaters. At the Warfield and El Rancho it was double-billed with another Canadian horror offering, Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974). I'm guessing the latter was a re-release.
I do remember being studiously unnerved by this film's poster, when it was displayed at the Alameda Theatre. The artwork was that same as this ad's, only much larger, clearer, and in nauseating color. The bathwater was made to look like a thick, sickly green muck, not water. Was something polluting the discolored water, or was the discolored water itself the threat? I had no idea and was afraid to find out.
Years later, when David Cronenberg was a better known and well-established filmmaker, I learned of his body (horror) of work and knew, post Scanners and Videodrome, I had to get better acquainted with it.
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