Review: For a mogul who can't accept the end, a high-tech tomb becomes a portal in 'The Shrouds'

Review: For a mogul who can't accept the end, a high-tech tomb becomes a portal in 'The Shrouds'

Master director David Cronenberg continues to explore squirm-making subjects, always thoughtfully, here with a well-cast Vincent Cassel as a surrogate griever.

The filmmaker convokes themes and motifs dear to his cinema in his most recent film.

‘The Shrouds’ Is David Cronenberg’s Most Personal Movie Since ‘The Fly’

The filmmaker channels his own grief into a thriller about high-tech gravesites, corporate espionage, and the horror of saying goodbye to a loved one.

David Cronenberg Hints at Retirement: “The World Does Not Need My Next Movie”

Few recent films, and even fewer by major directors, are so death-haunted as David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds. Since well before its premiere has there been much acknowledgment of personal parallels for the director, though an even larger sense of loss, while actually watching, comes from the suspicion this elegiac and self-reflective work (possibly some kind of masterpiece) could be his final statement. During the recent press run––which has incl…

Film Review: The Shrouds

By Dolores Quintana Canada’s cinematic maestro of body horror’s newest film is The Shrouds. While it is not a horror film in the usual sense, except maybe the everyday kind, as we deal with our own mortality, it still has the power to shock, but also the power to fascinate the audience with our darkest imaginings.  The Shrouds opens in limited release in Los Angeles and New York on April 18 and goes wide on April 25.  This is the synopsis: In an…

THE SHROUDS Review: Intensely Personal Body Horror

David Cronenberg's new film stars Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]