Pierre David

Pierre David, straight outta Montreal—yeah, that’s Québec, Canada, for the geographically challenged—made his mark on the world of film as a producer and writer. The guy’s fingerprints are all over some of the wildest, trippiest movies to ever creep out of the late '70s and early '80s. If you’ve ever seen Scanners (1981), you know what I’m talking about: exploding heads, psychic warfare, pure bonkers energy. It’s not exactly your average popcorn flick. Then there’s Videodrome (1983). Man, that one’s a fever dream—hallucinations, body horror, TVs doing things TVs probably shouldn’t do. Pierre David had a hand in making all that madness happen, working alongside legendary director David Cronenberg. You kind of have to respect the dude for diving headfirst into such bizarre territory. He wasn’t chasing safe or predictable; he wanted to shake things up, make audiences squirm, and get people talking (or, you know, covering their eyes). Let’s not sleep on The Brood (1979) either. That movie is just… off the wall. Psychotherapy gets a whole new meaning, and there’s a level of weirdness that pretty much cemented Cronenberg—and by extension, Pierre David—as icons in the horror scene. Pierre didn’t just produce movies; he championed the freaky, the surreal, the gutsy stuff that nobody else wanted to touch. So, if you’re into films that leave you a little uncomfortable or questioning reality, you’ve probably got Pierre David to thank. Or blame. Depends on your appetite for the weird.