* DuelingMovies: A four-way contest - squarely lost in the general public fame - with ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''Film/DarkCity'' and ''Film/TheThirteenthFloor''. Although back then it would have been in last place, thanks to losing money, nowadays it's easily in third for being a minor cult classic with fans of Sci-Fi and of Creator/DavidCronenberg.
* FakeNationality: Creator/JudeLaw as a Canadian, Creator/ChristopherEccleston as a New Yorker, Creator/IanHolm as a Hungarian, Don [=McKellar=] as... [[JustAStupidAccent a generically foreign man]], and Robert Silverman as an [[{{Oireland}} Oirishman]]. [[spoiler: In the final scene, they all speak in their natural accents]], prompting Holm's magnificent quote: [[spoiler: "My accent was so thick that I could hardly understand myself!"]]
* RealitySubtext: Cronenberg himself has had some pretty bad experiences with censorship, albeit not to the level of normative dogmatics trying to assassinate him. His friend Creator/SalmanRushdie, on the other hand, did have that very level.

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* Notable for being David Cronenberg's final BodyHorror film until 2022's ''Film/CrimesOfTheFuture2022''. In between this and that he mostly did Thrillers and Crime Dramas.