Love the movie , i love david Cronenberg. But Stephen Lack the male lead with by far the most screen time is an absolutely horrid actor. He apparently was not an actor by trade and was an artist so I'm assuming David Cronenberg made that decision intentionally and for some metaphorical reason but I couldn't begin to say why and it's awfully distracting. The extras have more charisma than he does. Maybe he got better later in his career I couldn't say but anywhere. Great movie. A little dated perhaps but it's solid Cronenberg and Michael Ironside is reason enough to watch.