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A little typology of the Mad Doctor
Daring cuts are a unifying element of Cinema Bizarre and advanced medical work on the body. Directors like Lucio Fulci, which a falling film body not only from a distance, but also brutally into the assembled close-ups show what rock can do with a human face ( Do not Torture a Duckling , 1972), have as much spirit of research such as Dr. Herbert West and his colleagues, Sew the bat wings on heads ( Bride of Re-Animator , directed by Brian Yuzna , 1990). Film and medicine influence each other improve in their visionary search for the new meat in their attempts to beautify the human body to revive, to control and make it last longer. Here are a few branches of research have emerged, here will be presented shortly.
first Re-animation. Research purpose: Reviving a dead being, as a whole or by joining various parts. Famous representatives: Victor Frankenstein, Herbert West (Re-Animator , Bride of Re-Animator ). The victory over death, which is the oldest and most frightening dream of the medical profession. A problem of this branch is the access to research results: although there are many dead bodies, they get to heavy. Result is usually one or the other form of acquisitive crime, often by grave robbery, and sometimes by the Mad Doctor carried a living death, to bring him back then can. The experiment succeeds, the next biggest problem arises, the zombie phenomenon has revived the body is not necessarily a revitalized spirit. Most of the entire human civilization Sublimationsapparat on the threshold between death and life is stuck, leaving only aggressive drive monster that react only to one or the other primary stimulus. The disturbed balance between bodily impulses and regulating consciousness is the central problem of all Mad Doctors.
second Plastic Surgery. Research Purpose: Restoration of the external shell of the body after heavy Accidents / injuries. Famous representatives: Dr. Genessier (Les yeux sans visage , directed by Georges Franju, 1960), Dr. Keloid ( Rabid, directed by David Cronenberg, 1977). As with the Re-animators, there are also the transplant outside a procurement problem, because some has to come the new, tender skin, yes. Here are two solutions to be distinguished: First, the material is being operated by the patients themselves, as in the clinic of Dr. keloid, the "morphogenetic neutralized 'own tissue transplanted. Second, the material comes from not always voluntary foreign volunteers, like Dr. Genessier who wants to model his disfigured by an accident daughter a new face why his assistant must constantly acquire new students. Foreign material is not difficult to obtain, it is also repelled often, as in Dr. Genessier, or developed a life of its own (as in the subgenre of "transplant killer hands": Orlacs hands , The Beast with Five Fingers , Mad Love ). Another danger to mutations and the appearance of body parts as in Rabid .
third Vivisection / re-combination. Research Purpose: creation of hybrid creatures. Famous representatives: Dr. Moreau. Mad Doctors play God do all a little bit, but not in such great Scale as the representative of this genus. Moreau's avowed desire to make the island a little man-like beasts of his hidden, hardly the underlying ambition of the ruler of his own creation to be. Main problem with this line of research is primarily the large space requirements. A remote island, it must be so.
4th De-and rematerialization. Research purposes: invisibility and / or teleportation of organic matter. Famous representatives: Sebastian Caine ( Hollow Man, directed by Paul Verhoeven, 2000), Seth Brundle (The Fly , directed by David Cronenberg, 1986). This line of research is the furthest from the classical Human medicine away, knowledge of the molecular physics and biochemistry is a plus. Maybe because they lack the patient base, the scientists working in this field like in person. As so often in experiments on the body's radical transformation leads to a regression of civilization, so that the invisible men usually think of nothing better than to enrich the material, and lick of visible female bodies. In its purest form, the related technical progress shows atavism in the shape of the Brundlefly, a reminder of the monstrous power of chance, which holds even in the most controlled experimental designs of modern medicine feeder.
5th Brain Fucking. Research purpose: mental optimization of people, relief from psychological and social constraints. Famous representatives: Dr. Jekyll, Dr. O'Blivion ( Videodrome, directed by David Cronenberg, 1983). The ugly side effect of most body experiments of Mad Doctors, desublimation and release of animal instinct is the declared main aim of this research direction. What Dr. Jekyll is succeeded by chance, especially for doctors in many of David Cronenberg films, the main concern: total disinhibition in the sense of Re-/Deprogrammierung "harmful" civilizational patterns. Whether the sex of the parasites, Dr. Emil Hobbes ( Shivers, 1975), Dr. Hal Raglan Psychoplasmics with which one can materialize let his fears and desires ( The Brood, 1979), or administered by the TV signal Brainwash O'Blivion of Brian, is the focus of these experiments always the (sexual) liberation of people from the shackles of reason, which leads according to the dialectic of Mad-Doctor movies to an even more gracious looser submission under the heel of the (new) flesh.
The two earliest examples of that architectural feature of buildings unverputzem concrete, in which David Cronenberg and his Mad Doctors looking after the "new meat", the Canadian Academy for Erotic Inquiry ( Stereo , 1969) and the House of Skin ( Crimes of the Future, 1970). Never again did the scientist and director of experimental arrangements so perfect to cover in these two early works Cronenberg. In both films was omitted narration and dialogue, instead there is a cool, scientific look that is particularly interested in the movement of subjects through the surrounding space and Cronenberg compares with the observation of an aquarium. In Stereo follows this view seven subjects that will develop by surgical removal of their language skills and social isolation telepathic abilities, is in Crimes of the Future it to the triggered by new cosmetics global extinction of all mature women. In both films, accompanied by a scientific objectivity suggestive voice-over the running out of control experiments, the promise of a new human being ends in radical dehumanization.
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Saturday 15 May, 21 clock, B-Movie :
Bizarre Cinema double feature with Re-Animator & Bride of Re-Animator
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