Bonding

Rating: 9/10 (16 July 2013)

No one would or could describe the Director's early Work as subtle. He is just about always in your face with varying degrees of unsightly body-in-revolt imagery. This one maybe His Masterpiece of flesh and blood on a parasitic rampaging revenge. Like Aids or Cancer.
This is a Romantic Grand Guignol Fantasy that is so well Directed, Acted, and Made-Up, that the Viewer is overwhelmed so much by sympathy that the Horrific elements proudly paraded in the second half hardly removes the Love Story that preceded it. The Film manages to maintain that sense of real life Human Bonding as it delves into the Science-Fiction Bonding of Gene Splicing.
It is a unique Movie from an always against the grain visionary Director. Cronenberg, along with tasty turns by Goldblum and Davis, with support from Getz and the Academy Award Winning Make-up, serve up one of the Best Films of the 1980's.