Let's make this birthday one to remember.

82 years old (Born on March 15, 1943)

Happy Birthday, David Cronenberg! May your celebrations be delightfully strange and free of exploding heads (we're looking at you, *Scanners*). Your films have taught us valuable life lessons—like never trusting teleportation pods (*The Fly*) or identical twins with questionable medical ethics (*Dead Ringers*).

Through decades of cinematic brilliance and body-horror mastery, you've consistently reminded audiences that the human condition can indeed get a little gooey. Here's hoping this year brings fewer mutant insects but plenty more creative genius.

Cheers to another fantastic trip around the sun—and may it involve far less slime than Jeff Goldblum endured!