I didn't love Brandon Cronenberg's 2012 debut Antiviral, but it was a promising enough sign of things to come from the son of horror maestro David Cronenberg. I imagine it's hard following in the footsteps of a famous filmmaker father, especially when you work within the same genre as dear old dad. After all, Jason Reitman doesn't make the kinds of movies that Ivan Reitman made, nor does Sofia Coppola seem interested in following Francis Ford Coppola's playbook. But like his father before him, Brandon Cronenberg is clearly interested in body horror, and with his …
It is a long-touted maxim, passed down through generations, that women love bad boys. Nice guys finished last. Attraction and repulsion, desire and disgust, fear and eroticism -- the parallel pleasures of toxic romance live on both sides of a razor's edge, and few screen love stories have ever captured the can't-turn-away-from-the-wreckage thrall of seductive obsession like You. The Lifetime series turned Netflix sensation surprised when it landed on the streaming service after meeting middling success on basic cable and absolutely blew up on streaming, proving its depraved delights were a perfect match …
Depraved, from director Larry Fessenden, tells a modern-day Frankenstein tale woven with the deeper meanings of mental illness and companionship.