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Here, the 79-year-old probes the same issues and pushes the same buttons that made Scanners, Videodrome and Crash so horribly memorable.

Once again, human evolution is the theme as we are thrown into a grim and very grimy future where pain has almost vanished. Performance artist Saul Tensor (Viggo Mortensen) keeps growing new mutant organs and he is getting them surgically removed on stage by his assistant (Léa Seydoux).

Kristen Stewart’s government agent is watching in a state of quivering excitement. “Surgery is the new sex,” she whispers to Tensor after the gory show.

Tensor may be the most famous producer of new organs but he is not alone.

The authorities are increasingly worried about the rapidly changing human anatomy, believing we are reaching a new stage of evolution that desperately needs to be kept in check.

The dense dialogue and slow but very deliberate pace can make for hard work. But I suspect this is another Cronenberg “body horror” that will be very hard to shake off.

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