eXistenZ

“The whole pod went into your hole!” Psychedelic, amphibian-based game developers, Sophie and Caitlin, stumble around together and get their bioports plugged into the pulsating, glopping head-trip of David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999). We return to Cronenberg’s work and its timely themes of bodily autonomy and the horrors that come when trying to constrain The Flesh, this time older, wiser, and with stronger stomachs, to ponder an age old question: why is this Canadian man so obsessed with a goopy hole?