This week, Kayte and new co-host Dave Maher are talking about David Cronenberg’s earliest features, Shivers and Rabid. We dish about sexual repression, white flight, zombies and wonder what it would be like if the United States funded arts and culture. 

Sources we referenced: 

“Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess” by Linda Williams 

“A Mindless Orgy: Liberation and Monstrosity in Cronenberg’s Body Horror“ by Sam Moore

”David Cronenberg’s Dreams and Nightmares” by Adam Nayman