Cronenberg To Finally Release “The Man With Vaginas Growing On His Arms?”

Here at Somebody Hit The Lights! we are really excited about our upcoming feature on legendary horror director David Cronenberg, and the rumored release of his much anticipated and much debated film that almost wasn’t: “The Man With Vaginas Growing On His Arms.”  Based on a script he originally wrote while taking a break from being weird back in 1979, right after his one-two-three psycho-sexual cinematic punch of Shivers, Rabid, and The Brood, “The Man With Vaginas Growing On His Arms” is the epic tale of Dr. RubMyShoulders, an off-kilter psychiatrist with a twitch who runs a cedar-lined clinic in Toronto that follows up on the work of Wilhelm Reich by attempting to convert the erotic rage of college co-eds into a viable electricity source for the utilities dept. of the Canadian government.  Things get out of control when Dr.Rub accidentally falls into the Clitorator, and gets zapped with transfer energy, after which he begins to become the titular “Man With Vaginas Growing On His Arms.”  After years in preproduction hell, script rewrites, and a last minute switch from rubber vaginas to CGI in terms of special effects, Cronenberg is finally set to unveil “The Man With Vaginas Growing On His Arms” to a rapt, stilled, and expectant horror/sci-fi crowd at the Creepy Canadians Film Fest.  As a whiff of things to come, we proudly present a brief section of a hot-off-the-presses interview with The Bespectled One Himself.  (In person, now displaying a distinguished gray look on top of his part-time-college-biology-professor-who-just-got-finished-doing-some-raping look, Cronenberg is even more brilliant and more creepy than you would expect.  He kind of has the look of a very intelligent guy who reads a lot of J.G. Ballard and Phillip K. Dick and might have just finished dining on a small roasted child.)

SHTL: Dave, is every day in Canada really filled with rainy ennui, a slow dread-soaked dreamlike state in which flesh meets thought and you eat fries with gravy?

David Cronenberg: Absolutely.

Our full interview, stills and one-sheet poster from “Vaginas.” and other goodies upcoming in early March!

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