The Spin-off Doctors: eXistenZ by Jimquisition published on 2017-11-07T17:27:50Z It's about things going in butts, basically. Also videogames, to a lesser degree. Genre Entertainment Comment by Ethan Rothschild Don't you mean "feces", Conrad? 2023-06-05T14:37:17Z Comment by Dragon_Nexus "flesh attentiveness" is a beautiful phrase. 2018-06-02T21:57:20Z Comment by A Neil Many thanks for this Conrad, I wasn't planning on watching it first but boy I am so glad I did. Thanks. 2017-11-20T05:36:53Z Comment by Mutant Freak Ok then... 2017-11-11T11:35:27Z Comment by Bożydar Łojwyż I think I read in an interview somewhere that Cronenberg never actually played any game in his life (at least priot to making "eXistenZ"). And yet he still managed to foresee David Cage and basically the modern over-cinematic video games that gave us photorealistic graphics in exchange for an illusion of choice. "eXistenZ" is hilariously far from how video games looked in 1999, but it's terrifyingly close to how they look now. 2017-11-11T00:45:26Z Comment by Bożydar Łojwyż Note that Kiri Vinokur uses the word "fatwa" in reference to the bounty on Allegra's head and the hunt for her. This is because the whole initial idea for the movie "eXistenZ" came to Cronenberg when he was doing an interview with the author Salman Rushdie who himself has a fatwa on himself for writing "The Satanic Verses". You can read the interview here: http://www.intralinea.org/monographs/zanettin/sr/cronemberg.htm 2017-11-11T00:23:38Z Comment by Bożydar Łojwyż I still think this is not a reference to "The Days of Perky Pat" short story, but rather to the "Three Stigmata" novel, as the theme of the novel is just identical to tis movie: here and there characters visit with their minds some virtual world (in the novel it's the dolls combined with a special drug) and once they enter that world even once, they find out they can never be sure if they're really back in reality. 2017-11-11T00:16:47Z Comment by Bożydar Łojwyż Oh, guys, wait for the comments ;) 2017-11-11T00:10:44Z Comment by EdDee I personally enjoy the design of the proprietary boob/dick/vagina console. 2017-11-10T16:42:31Z Comment by jason we need the harvest moon movie 2017-11-08T14:30:03Z Comment by Surgeryhead great episode guys, thanks 2017-11-08T12:30:30Z Comment by Surgeryhead I always thought that the movie would be a bit better if they never actually showed the game 2017-11-08T09:37:35Z Comment by NickK Butt-fucking ? Niceee, go on... 2017-11-07T20:08:00Z