David Cronenberg says eXistenZ wasn’t about predicting modern gaming, but if the 1999 sci-fi thriller did do that, ‘that’s lovely’
Body horror luminary David Cronenberg’s films are all thematically related, but 1983’s Videodrome and 1999’s eXistenZ feel especially like a diptych. Videodrome is about the virtual reality created by televised mass media (“television is reality, and reality is less than television”) and eXistenZ is about an immersive VR game that erodes the realness of the…