David Paul Cronenberg (Toronto, March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Since David Cronenberg burst onto movie screens in 1975 with the diabolical Goosebumps, he has been dubbed multiple times "the king of venereal horror," "the blood baron," David "Depraved" Cronenberg, and countless other variants of the style, for exploring human fears of physical transformation and infection. He inaugurates and champions the concept of the "new meat", eliminating the borders between the mechanical and the organic. In the first half of his career he explored these themes in the fantasy genre, primarily through horror and science fiction, although his work has long extended beyond these genres. Along with John Carpenter and Wes Craven, he has come to be considered within a group called "the three Cs" of contemporary horror cinema.