Cross-media picks for David Cronenberg fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
Cronenberg fans are drawn to a particular unease: the body as a site of dread, institutions hiding their worst experiments behind clean corridors, and identity that bends or breaks under pressure. These picks share that sensibility — medically inflected horror in Anatomy and The Machine, societal collapse forcing impossible choices in Humane, minds invaded or entered in Psychonauts and The Dream Master, and the thin membrane between maker and monster across Frankenstein adaptations. Cold, precise, and deeply strange.
Film
Humane
A family dinner collapses into horror as a government euthanasia program turns routine compliance into violent survival.
Film
Anatomy 2
A medical intern joins a secret fraternity whose experiments on human bodies grow increasingly disturbing.
Film
The Machine
A psychiatrist obsessed with mind-body links launches a brain experiment that spirals into psychological catastrophe.
Film
Absurd
A medically created mutant with supernatural regeneration escapes and kills, blurring science and monstrosity.
Film
Epidemic
Fiction bleeds into reality as two filmmakers discover their screenplay has begun reshaping the world around them.
Film
Syndrome
After a car crash, a husband's uncanny transformation makes his wife question whether the man beside her is real.
Film
Anatomy
A medical student wins a place at an elite program and investigates the mysterious death of a fellow student.
Film
The Hive
A young man fights an encroaching virus that devours memory, racing to save the person he loves before losing himself.
Series
Now and Again
A man's brain is transplanted into a government-engineered superhuman body, trapping his identity inside alien flesh.
Series
Frankenstein
The classic creature-from-corpses myth plays out as a scientist animates what should not be brought back to life.
Series
Dies Irae
A Nazi occult ritual sacrifices thousands to resurrect an ancient god, merging atrocity with supernatural horror.
Series
Terror in Resonance
Two ordinary people become terrorists, operating through cryptic signals that destabilise an entire city's sense of reality.
Series
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom
A tourist is turned into an involuntary human weapon, his identity erased and replaced by a deadly corporate programme.
Series
Frankenstein's Love
A monster who cannot die yearns for human connection, haunting the margins of a world that made and discarded him.
Series
The Team
A cross-border murder investigation forces detectives to confront violent crimes embedded in institutional blind spots.
Series
Texhnolyze
Three factions war over a city that feels sentient, where prosthetics and criminal power are fatally intertwined.
Game
Pathologic Classic HD
A survival game set in a plague town treats the body, disease, and moral choice as its central horror mechanics.
Game
The Thing
A shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of those it kills forces a rescue team to suspect every body around them.
Game
Psychonauts
Players enter living minds to battle fears made physical, turning psychology into surreal, traversable architecture.
Game
Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy)
Random murders across New York are linked by an invisible compulsion, suggesting a force hijacking ordinary bodies.
Game
Distrust
Stranded in the Arctic, survivors find that sleep itself becomes a vector for a nightmare that consumes them.
Game
No I'm not a Human
The world ends in scorching heat and a lone figure watches bodies and civilisation dissolve outside their window.
Game
Amid Evil
A retro FPS across seven completely different episodes, each with distinct settings and enemies built around ludicrous magical weaponry.
Game
Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
A man fresh from a psychiatric ward discovers reality fragmenting again as his body and mind come under assault.
Book
Consumed
Two journalists unravel a philosopher's death and fall into a surreal conspiracy that dissolves the line between story and fact.
Book
The 50/50 Killer
A detective has one day to locate two missing people and a killer, racing against a clock that guarantees someone dies.
Book
The Treatment
A couple is found imprisoned and dehydrated in their own home — a methodical cruelty that implicates something clinical and deliberate.
Book
The Dream Master
A psychiatrist enters patients' minds via neural therapy, discovering the dangerous porousness between his psyche and theirs.
Book
The Blunderer
Two unrelated deaths draw an innocent man into a detective's obsession that turns institutional logic into a trap.
Book
Serial killers
A cultural analyst dissects the serial killer as a modern phenomenon born where media, violence, and psychology converge.
Book
Skeleton crew
Horror stories from a master of the genre that probe the body, fear, and the monstrous hiding inside the ordinary.
Book
Mindswap
A student signs up for a mind-swap to afford interstellar travel and finds his identity adrift across alien bodies.
Start with the body-horror films Humane and The Machine, which share his clinical dread and institutional menace. On TV, Texhnolyze and Now and Again push the man-as-modified-body unease into serialised form.
Yes — The Dream Master is essential: a psychiatrist who enters patients' minds faces the same mind-body horror Cronenberg returns to again and again. Consumed blends conspiracy and surrealism in a way fans of his later, more cerebral films will recognise.
Pathologic Classic HD is the closest game equivalent — plague, bodily decay, and moral impossibility without resolution. Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh and Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy) both treat psychological collapse and bodily vulnerability as gameplay.