[3] According to CTV British Columbia, Ernest Mathijs’ research specialties include movie audiences, the reception of alternative cinema and cult film.

According to Variety Magazine, he is credited with being one of the inventors of “body horror” — with concepts that are hypnotic, frightening, erotic, disturbing, prescient and generally provocative.

[7] It showcases how Cronenberg developed a consistent cult following for his chronicles of humankind's struggle with its ever-changing environment, influenced by technology and changing social roles.

[10] In a New Yorker article, Adam Nayman comments that Cronenberg's œuvre encompasses a gun made of gristle that fires teeth (“eXistenZ”); a typewriter with an anus (“Naked Lunch”); weaponized armpits (“Rabid”); a chest cavity reconfigured as a VCR (“Videodrome”); and, in “The Fly,” perhaps his best-known film, a human-insect mutant played by Jeff Goldblum.

Dejan Ognjanovic of Beyond Hollywood wrote that it is "a study whose main value lies in exploring the reception (and misconceptions) of Cronenberg’s films, but has very little to add to clarifying them and enabling a better understanding of their essence."