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That narrative is just the latest in an unnerving trend that has seen leading sources of entertainment journalism pivoting toward conservative viewpoints and industry gatekeeping.

And there, like an old friend, is Cronenberg’s regular composer Howard Shore with a synth moan to keep the mood unnerving.

I sat for a Bachardy portrait in 1983 — one of two he made that day is in the Huntington exhibition — and the experience was unnerving.

That’d be a jump scare as it is, but the images blowing up Violet’s phone quickly become unnervingly specific and personal.

The images are surreal: choked black skies, unnerving moon-like suns, a mangled foot that wraps around the corner of a hallway like it has no bones.