Odd ball cinema legend David Cronenberg is Canada's answer to David Lynch, but with more productivity (more on that later). In this, his 5th movie, he serves up an X-Men/Blade Runner-esque sci-fi which is notable for perhaps the most paused moment in 80s VHS history: the exploding head scene.Featuring a young - but still menacing - Michael Ironside, this film was written by Cronenberg as he filmed it, due to the strange Canadian film tax structure at the time. Given only 2 weeks pre-production time, Cronenberg had to have the movie written, shot and edited in 2 months. And he had to blow up a guy's head! Roger Ebert gave it 2 out of 4 stars, so that's telling you something right there. Love it or hate it, it's still a cult classic.