Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Michael_Elliott Stereo (1969) ** (out of 4)Ultra bizarre film from David Cronenberg has a group of young people agreeing to have a brain surgery, which will take away their ability to think or feel but they will gain the ability to communicate mentally.STEREO was the first feature to be directed by the young Cronenber and many people see a connection between this film and his later hit SCANNERS. This film here is certainly a well-made piece but it's one of those movies that you can respect much more than actually enjoy while watching. I say that because the film is certainly very well-made and it has a terrific atmosphere and visual look. I loved the B&W cinematography and I thought the director did a very good job with the look and style.I'd also argue that the actors do a fine job with their roles but, with all of that said, there's very little else going on with STEREO. The film was shot without any dialogue or even sound effects but every few minutes a narrator will fill us in on the "plot." All of this just really doesn't add anything compelling and in the end the film is rather boring and hard to get through even at just 65-minutes.

poe426 STEREO is the first of David Cronenberg's two "psychosexual studies" (the other being the follow-up, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE) and also features the malleable Ron Mlodzik in the lead (here playing the cloaked and mysterious aphrodesiast, "Dr. Stringfellow"). He arrives at the Canadian Academy For Erotic Inquiry, where "human social cybernetics" is practiced. Their motto is: "Love conquers all." Eight "category A" subjects have undergone experimental brain surgery that has rendered them "Telepathists." Like CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, STEREO was shot sans sound, with narration (the "parapsychological experimental gestalt" observations of Dr. Stringfellow) added later: "Electromorphological dependency results in reinforcement withdrawal" when the object of focus is gone- whereupon, brain tissue DESTRUCTS. He interacts with one subject (who has voluntarily had his larynx speech centers removed) by sharing his pacifier (the next best thing to "symbiotic telepathic cohesion," one assumes). "Is abstract, logical thought even possible without language...?" It turns out that Negative Thinking is the Positive way to protect oneself between "attuned" people; unlike SCANNERS, the STEREO redux, where every thought of every passerby is "picked up," here the telepathy must be a "mutual" interaction. "Phenomenological refinement" is the ultimate goal (telepathic communes are suggested). "Omnisexuality" is one possible outgrowth: "a fully three-dimensional sexuality" (as opposed to "monosexuality" or "bisexuality"); group groping is explored. A telepath, he concludes, is the prototype of three-dimensional man... although sometimes a candy bar is just a candy bar... We'll just have to wait, though, until the "electroencephalographic data gets to be evaluated." "Art is the tree of Life," Cronenberg once said in regards to his biohorror approach to film-making: "Science is the tree of Death." STEREO is a fascinating piece of work.

sire_galopin Unfortunately, this film is not a great Cronenberg. One can understand that he was only at his beginning and that he had a budget limited to make this film, but they are not the means only I criticize but rather the weakness of the scenario. One has the impression that it occurs nothing in this film. A long walk in corridors, a narration which leaves us on our appetite and not really of dialogs. Me, in what relates to me, I fought of all my forces not to fall asleep during the projection, which however, lasts only one hour. It will be understood that Cronenberg will have had all the time to make better films during following years.

Paul Petroskey I just finished watching an exercise in tedium, STEREO. I'm a fan of David Cronenberg and while I certainly appreciate the fact that this is an early film of his, made for almost no money, that doesn't change the fact that it is totally boring! People do almost nothing while a voiceover tells us about some experiments that are being done in a research center. For 60 minutes. I'm 5 minutes into CRIMES OF THE FUTURE right now and it looks like it could be better.