Full Movies

NOTICE

None of the movies listed below resides on this webhost.
All of them might (or might not) exist on the internet.

Year Info Name (Link) Length Stream
Trailer
Resolution Comments Ripper

Features

2006 London Fields        
2005 A History of Violence     Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt.  
FAQ Painkillers        
2002 Spider
CD1 or:
CD1, CD2
1:38 FAQ 512x288 /
672x368
The 2CD rip contains the director's commentary

Bonus material:
In the Beginning - How Spider came to be
Caught in Spider's Web - The Cast
Weaving the Web - The Making of Spider
Trailer

See FAQ for release dates and other details
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Polityk
2000 Camera
CD1 or:
Low Quality or:
Old Link 1
Old Link 2
0:06   Presented by Toronto International Film Festival 2001  
1999 eXistenZ
CD1 or:
CD1 (AC3) or:
CD1 (Subs) or:
CD1 (Subs) or:
CD1, CD2
1:37 512x276 / 512x276 / 512x288 / 512x288 / 704x400 Frame by Frame - The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier

The 2CD rip by Polityk is AC3 5.1 with 3 additional commentary tracks.

Rips Comparison page

The AC3 rip is DivX 5.0.0 672kbps 25fps, AC3 5.1 384kbps, 1:32

NewMov's rip is XviD 967kbps, mp3 96kbps

Internet-Inspire's rip is XviD 867kbps, mp3 128kbps (VBR?)

Commentary tracks:
David Cronenberg (or this), Peter Suschitzky (get plugin here from AudioCoding).
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Waldpfifferling /
NewMov /
Internet-Inspire /
Polityk
1996 Crash
CD1 or:
CD1
1:36 300k

100k

56k

28k
640x352 /
544x304
This version is unedited (letterbox, over-matted).
There's also a 640x352 Edited version (now why would you want that?)
pochtron
1993 M. Butterfly 1:41 300k

100k

56k

28k
480x360 Good VHS rip.
Video: XviD 818kbps
Audio: mp3 128kbps CBR (Stereo)
 
1991 Naked Lunch CD1 or:
CD1
1:55 300k

100k

56k

28k
640x352 /
544x304
Extras

Also: VHS rip (512x380). Audio is in OggVorbis format - get OGG Codec.
quix
1988 Dead Ringers
CD1, CD2 or:
CD1
1:52 300k

100k

56k

28k
704x368 /
576x352
Featurette, Trailer

Dead.Ringers.audio.to.fit.on.702mb.mp3

In the 2CD rip, the commentary is behind: 350ms on CD1, 175ms on CD2.

Dead Ringers was filmed full frame (1.33:1). The framing was designed to be masked for various theatrical aspect ratios. Cronenberg’s preferred framing is 1.66:1.
Polityk /
Schubi
1986 The Fly

CD1 or:
CD1, CD2
1:35 300k

100k

56k

28k
640x352 /
?
Commentary Track by DonkeyKong (for the 1CD rip; mp3 96kbps CBR, English)

DVD Extras by ReleaseCandidate.

Check out The Fly Film Archive for about 50 images from the 1CD rip, that I snapped and contributed to the site.

The 2CD-rip is AC3 5.1

A Special-Edition DVD will be released in 2004.
 
1983 The Dead Zone 1:44 576x320 English subs Schubi
1983 Videodrome
CD1 or:
CD1, CD2 or:
CD1, CD2
1:29 624x336 /
704x368 /
736x384
Farming the New Flesh
Fear on Film (1981)
Samurai Dreams
Videodrome transmissions
The Making of Videodrome
Helmet-Cam Test

For the 1CD rip:
If the audio is out of sync, try this (thanks to Torspo):
1. Get Nandub 1.0 RC2 and Avifrate 1.10.
2. Open the movie in Nandub, make sure both video and audio are set to Direct Stream Copy (don't touch any other settings) and choose Save as AVI (don't try to overwrite the original file).
3. Open the saved file in Avifrate, set the frame rate to 23.9772 and Apply.
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Batwho /
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1981 Scanners
CD1 or:
CD1, CD2 or:
(CD1, CD2)
1:43 300k

56k
 608x448 /
704x368
Use ZoomPlayer's CTRL/ALT-K option in full-screen mode to mask it into 608x330 like Cronenberg intended.  
1979 The Brood
CD1 or:
CD1
1:28 608x336 /
576x304
  Team_NaSaMo /
pochtron
1979 Fast Company 1:32 448x336 Trailer (by Polityk)
Shooting Cronenberg (by Polityk)
Inside the Character - Actor's Studio (interview with William Smith and John Saxon) (by Polityk)

Also: old VHS rip (mp3 160kbps CBR Mono)
 
1977 Rabid
CD1 or:
CD1
1:31 300k

100k

56k

28k
608x352 /
576x432
Interview with Cronenberg

Trailer 1, Trailer 2

Use ZoomPlayer's CTRL/ALT-K option in full-screen mode to mask it into 576x320 like Cronenberg intended.
Polityk /
Schubi
1975 Shivers 1:27 528x400 Use ZoomPlayer's CTRL/ALT-K option in full-screen mode to mask it into 528x294 like Cronenberg intended - See explanation and sample below, in A Word about Masking.  
1970 Crimes of the Future 1:10    
1969 IMDB Stereo 1:05    
1967 From the Drain 0:12 320x240 B/W, low quality Quicktime, 41MB
Original location
 
1966 IMDB Transfer          

Documentaries/Interviews

2000 The Directors - David Cronenberg 1:00   576x384   Schubi
2000 IMDB The American Nightmare 0:09 Clip 640x416 More info about this rip DonkeyKong
1999 IMDB I have to make the Word be Flesh 1:07   592x352 More info about this rip DonkeyKong
1992 IMDB Naked making Lunch 0:52
Clip 1

Clip 2

Clip 3

640x480 More info about this rip DonkeyKong
1986 IMDB Long Live the New Flesh          

Others

1990 IMDB Nightbreed       Disappointing movie by Barker, but Cronenberg in an
almost-lead role and excellent music by Elfman? I'll take it!
 


A Word about Masking

You may already know that Cronenberg usually films his movies in 1.33:1 ratio (full-frame), intended to be masked into 1.85:1 ratio. This method is used so that when the movie is transferred to VHS, it won't have to go though the Pan & Scan method, in which the left/right ends are 1.33:1 vs. 1.85:1 in Shivers cropped. Instead, the full-screen picture actually contains more than is seen in the wide-screen picture (using Pan & Scan it's the other way around). But since the extra top/bottom details weren't intended to be there, it usually results in "empty spaces" (and a boom which most people consider a goof, but it's actually not).

So when you watch some of the Cronenberg rips, such as Scanners, Rabid and Shivers, you're actually seeing more than Cronenberg intended, and you may notice the empty spaces on the top/bottom, which shouldn't be there (click the picture on the left, from Shivers).

Want to see the movies like Cronenberg intended them to be? Get Zoom Player (which is my favorite player anyway), go to Full-Screen mode using Alt-Enter, and press Alt-K to toggle the masking mode. You can change the mask-settings using Ctrl-K: To mask 1.33:1 into 1.85:1 (Cronenberg movies) use 100 for top and 100 for bottom. The movies will look much better. Enjoy.

See more info and explames for the different aspect ratios here.