David Cronenberg

Known for: The Fly (1986), Crash (1996)

David Cronenberg developed a genre of horror he called "body horror" — films in which flesh itself is the site of transformation, violation, and desire — across Shivers (1975), Videodrome (1983), and The Fly (1986). His later films — Naked Lunch (1991), Crash (1996), A History of Violence (2005) — maintain the same interest in the permeability of the body's boundaries while moving away from genre conventions. He is widely considered Canada's most significant filmmaker.