And yet, his humor is undeniable, in everything from the sex-romp tone of Shivers to the perfect counter-casting of heartthrob Robert Pattinson in the capitalist takedown Cosmopolis. Of course, being a lover of bastardization, Cronenberg has never wedded himself to the traditional constrains of any genre, preferring instead to meld the uncanny and the comic, always making the latter a bit unsettling.