Instead this new style on the mad scientist and his abdominal creatures can be explained by Cynthia Freeland.
Cronenberg's movies are heirs or updates of Frankenstein. They link mad science to capitalism, cooperate technology, and control, hence his horror takes on a significant dimension of social critique. Mad scientists no longer work alone in Gothic laboratories during thunderstorms at night. Instead, they meet in boardrooms of anonymous-looking corporations or run tastefully decorated clinics in the woods. (N.U. p 87).
This new form of evil science is not any better than the ways of old, just masked better. Instead of acting crazy, and living alone the new mad scientist is as cool as the other side of the pillow and incorporates themselves so well into society that not only do we not know, we usually respect them. But is seems that much of the mad science work that is brought to life in novels and on the movie screen has to do with mans inability to cope with women's ability to create life. Since men can not create life in the natural way, they crave for the power to b able to create life in the unnatural fashion. Freeland comments on this in her novel.
Horror develops from male attempts to harness, reconstruct, or emulate female powers of procreation. Reproduction goes amok "disastrously so and as a kind of punishment for the men who meddle with life's natural processes. (N.U. p 88).
The punishment that Freeland talks about is that in most works, the reproduction goes so horribly wrong that the things that end up being formed are nothing short of monsters.
While The Brood focused mostly on the areas of the mad-scientist and the idea of monstrous flesh with the children, The Changeling is an altogether different movie. In it, there is no definitive fleshed out horror that is chasing the characters or putting their lives in any immediate harm. Instead the film focuses on the supernatural and spirits from beyond this world that want something from the living.
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