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Own a piece of Cronenberg cinema.

The posters that filled theatre walls. The images that drew audiences in. The editions collectors return to. Explore Cronenberg’s cinema through original campaign material, artist prints and home-video releases from our sister stores, Rare Prints and Posters and Rare VHS and LaserDiscs.

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01 / Selected objects

Theatrical posters

Original theatrical campaigns from around the world: bold images, alternate titles and designs that gave each film a different public face.

Videodrome — UK campaign poster

Videodrome / 1983

Videodrome — UK campaign poster

A red corridor of screens draws the viewer inside Videodrome. Its horizontal composition contrasts with the blue US campaign.

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Videodrome — US one-sheet

Videodrome / 1983

Videodrome — US one-sheet

The blue field and distorted figure make the screen itself unstable. The same campaign image reappears in miniature on the lobby cards.

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They Came from Within — US one-sheet

Shivers / 1975

They Came from Within — US one-sheet

The bathtub image and upward arrow make the American title physical. This is campaign paper for the film known as Shivers.

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Rabid — US one-sheet

Rabid / 1977

Rabid — US one-sheet

The enclosed body and distressed title compress the campaign into a warning. The photograph connects directly to the dossier’s study of the freezer image.

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Rabia — illustrated campaign poster

Rabid / 1977

Rabia — illustrated campaign poster

A bold Rabia title and montage of attacks give the outbreak a vivid illustrated campaign.

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The Fly — US one-sheet

The Fly / 1986

The Fly — US one-sheet

The telepod opens just enough to suggest the creature. A machine and a withheld view carry the image, in contrast to the later artist editions.

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Cromosoma-3 — Spanish poster

The Brood / 1979

Cromosoma-3 — Spanish poster

A hooded child and reaching hands make the threat immediate. The Spanish title gives the film another identity within its international campaign.

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02 / Selected objects

Japanese chirashi

Japanese theatrical handbills bring striking artwork and distinctive typography to an intimate, collectible format.

Scanners — Japanese chirashi

Scanners / 1981

Scanners — Japanese chirashi

Electrical energy and a screaming figure turn the scanner into a graphic emblem.

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The Fly — Japanese chirashi

The Fly / 1986

The Fly — Japanese chirashi

The telepod travels into a Japanese handbill, with a title treatment that transforms the familiar campaign image.

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Spider — Japanese chirashi

Spider / 2002

Spider — Japanese chirashi

A seated figure, pale room and web-like floor pattern condense the film’s spaces into a small sheet of theatrical publicity.

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03 / Selected objects

Lobby cards & publicity stills

Scene photographs made for theatre display, with the original campaign borders and typography that frame each moment.

Scanners — lobby card 2

Scanners / 1981

Scanners — lobby card 2

Pierce’s studio and its monumental sculpted head become the centre of this theatrical lobby card.

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Scanners — lobby card 3

Scanners / 1981

Scanners — lobby card 3

The laboratory opens into a wide tableau of people, equipment and controlled space.

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Scanners — lobby card 4

Scanners / 1981

Scanners — lobby card 4

Electronic equipment erupts in sparks. Machinery becomes another surface on which the campaign makes psychic power visible.

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Scanners — lobby card 6

Scanners / 1981

Scanners — lobby card 6

Kim and Vale appear at a telephone. The quieter image widens a campaign otherwise associated with bodily shock.

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Scanners — lobby card 7

Scanners / 1981

Scanners — lobby card 7

Pierce’s sculpted face becomes the dominant image. The printed card preserves both the photograph and the surrounding campaign design.

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Scanners — lobby card 8

Scanners / 1981

Scanners — lobby card 8

The burning cars turn psychic conflict into a large public spectacle. A scene photograph becomes part of the theatre’s display.

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Videodrome — lobby card 1

Videodrome / 1983

Videodrome — lobby card 1

Max and Nicki share the frame in an original publicity image bordered by the film’s campaign design.

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Videodrome — lobby card 2

Videodrome / 1983

Videodrome — lobby card 2

The working relationship between Max and Harlan becomes one of the images chosen to represent the film in a theatre lobby.

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Videodrome — lobby card 3

Videodrome / 1983

Videodrome — lobby card 3

A portrait of Max Renn is framed as an advertisement. The object joins a scene image to the campaign’s warning and miniature poster.

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Videodrome — lobby card 6

Videodrome / 1983

Videodrome — lobby card 6

A burning interior brings the film’s violence into the theatre lobby.

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Videodrome — lobby card 7

Videodrome / 1983

Videodrome — lobby card 7

The demonstration scene sits within Videodrome’s black, red and blue campaign border.

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The Fly — lobby-card set

The Fly / 1986

The Fly — lobby-card set

Seth at the piano leads this eight-card set, bringing a quiet moment from the laboratory into the theatrical campaign.

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04 / Selected objects

Artist editions

Cronenberg’s worlds reimagined by artists including Sara Deck, Jay Shaw, Kilian Eng and Doaly. Explore numbered screen prints, variants and giclée editions.

Dead Ringers — Sara Deck

Dead Ringers / 1988

Dead Ringers — Sara Deck

Red surgical dress surrounds a doubled face and an impossible arrangement of hands. The film’s paired identities become one body.

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Dead Ringers — Jay Shaw

Dead Ringers / 1988

Dead Ringers — Jay Shaw

A black, branching silhouette gives the twins’ entwined identities a stark graphic form.

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eXistenZ — Jay Shaw

eXistenZ / 1999

eXistenZ — Jay Shaw

Two profiles share a dark organic silhouette. The negative space gives the film’s unstable identities a spare graphic form.

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Rabid — Phantom City Creative

Rabid / 1977

Rabid — Phantom City Creative

A red figure is isolated within a crowd of faces. The composition lets an individual infection expand into a collective image.

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Rabid — Danny Miller

Rabid / 1977

Rabid — Danny Miller

Comic-like panels break the outbreak into faces, teeth and fragments. Green and pink offer a very different register from the US campaign photograph.

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Videodrome — Kilian Eng

Videodrome / 1983

Videodrome — Kilian Eng

A wall of monitors and the red hand-gun image compress the film’s relationship between flesh and machinery into a single tableau.

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Videodrome — N.E., regular

Videodrome / 1983

Videodrome — N.E., regular

Monitors and faces become a page of transmissions, printed in seven colours with three metallic inks.

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Videodrome — N.E., variant

Videodrome / 1983

Videodrome — N.E., variant

Screens and faces form a panelled narrative in a restrained three-colour variant, limited to 13 numbered prints.

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The Fly — Doaly, regular

The Fly / 1986

The Fly — Doaly, regular

A blue face, orange field and repeated eyes turn transformation into a vivid graphic pattern.

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The Fly — Doaly, variant

The Fly / 1986

The Fly — Doaly, variant

Hot pink, repeated eyes and fragments of the body reorganise the film into a graphic portrait. Compare the regular colourway.

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The Fly — Dan Mumford

The Fly / 1986

The Fly — Dan Mumford

Dense organic forms fill Mumford’s telepod, brought to life by glow-in-the-dark ink.

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Fusion — Brendon Flynn

The Fly / 1986

Fusion — Brendon Flynn

Flynn’s insect-like figure confronts the viewer head-on in this numbered giclée edition of 55.

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05 / Selected objects

Home-video objects

Films made physical. Collectible sleeves, discs and boxes trace the changing design of home cinema.

Scanners — Japanese LaserDisc

Scanners / 1981

Scanners — Japanese LaserDisc

The sleeve gives the scanner a visible electrical charge. Compare its illustrated face with the theatrical lobby-card photographs.

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Dead Ringers — Criterion LaserDisc box

Dead Ringers / 1988

Dead Ringers — Criterion LaserDisc box

A doubled portrait carries Dead Ringers into Criterion’s three-disc LaserDisc box set.

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