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1. Cronenberg's first film was filmed in Toronto; the setting is the fictitious Skyline Apartment building. When a young girl's body is found, a bizarre disease infects the residents of the building and one man is the carrier. What is the name of his first film?
2. The film Cronenberg made in 1977 was also about the spread of disease, though on a much wider scale. After Rose and her boyfriend Hart are rescued, after a motorcycle crash, they're taken to the Keloid Clinic where Rose grows a strange spiky protuberance in her left arm pit that sticks anyone she hugs and they become victims of a disease that's spread throughout Montreal. Can you name this film?
3. After 'Rabid' came this next film. Frank Carveth lives with his five year old daughter, Candy, while her mother Nola is in therapy at the Somafree Institute, run by Dr. Hal Raglan. He teaches his star patient to go all the way through with her rage, yet several murders occur in the lives of those she's raging against. What was this terrifying film called?
4. 1980 saw the release of Cronenberg's next film, which opened in the United States to a number one Box-Office ranking. It was a Science Fiction thriller about a group of good, telepathic people at war with the evil, telepathic people led by the evil Daryl Revok. Can you recall this film?
5. Cronenberg was off and running with his next film, which was his first film to be released by a major studio. Max Renn is the CEO of an underground cable network, Channel 83. His friend, Harlan, shows him a video tape of a modern torture chamber and it causes Max to have hallucinations. What was the film's title?
6. Cronenberg was still a hot director and for his next project, released in 1983, he tackled his first literary adaptation. Based on the novel by Stephen King, it tells the story of school teacher Johnny Smith who, after he wakens from a five year coma, can see into the future...yet there's something missing from his visions. Do you know which King novel became this Cronenberg film?
7. My favourite Cronenberg film over all, this one starred Jennifer Jason Leigh as video game designer Allegra Geller. She's running from assassins out to stop the popularity of her newest game. Did you see the film that I'm describing? If you have what was it called?
8. One of his most under-appreciated films, Cronenberg made this film on a very tight budget and he and his cast gave their time for free. Ralph Fiennes plays a man with paranoid schizophrenia, who is sent to live in a halfway house to sort out the murder of his mother. I hope you saw this film because it's brilliant. Can you guess which film it was?
9. His next film, released in 2005, was adapted from a graphic novel of the same title. It is about a man who keeps his true identity hidden from his family. He is Tom Stall to his family and friends, but a gangster says he's someone else who tried to kill him a few years earlier. Which Cronenberg film was this?
10. David's 2007 also starred Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai, a Russian driver for a notorious gangster in London. Naomi Watts is Anna, a nurse who becomes involved in Nikolai's life after a young expectant girl dies after giving birth. She needs to have the young mother's diary translated for what is written there, as it can bring the Russian mobster down. What was the name of this film?
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