At most Cannes Film Festivals, a new film by David Cronenberg might well be the creepiest, most shocking film in the lineup – particularly if it’s about cameras that allow people to see their loved ...
Forgive us for auteur theory-ing this review in the opening paragraph, but The Shrouds immediately resonates with the trend of David Cronenberg’s most recent work (read: the past 12 years). From the ...
David Cronenberg is one of the few filmmakers that taps into something I can’t fully describe about my perspectives on art. That’s why we have artists; they can put into form the formless miasma of ...
David Cronenberg’s screenplays give the overwhelming impression of intelligent dialogue between interesting people with driving obsessions, and their smarts let them keep a practical, analytical ...
You aren’t prepared for how chilly and strange David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds is. Yes, even for him, this is a weird one. More science fiction than outright horror, it’s a film that is almost ...
“How dark do you want to go?” The man asking that is named Karsh (Vincent Cassel), and he’s seated in a minimalist art-chic restaurant having lunch with a blind date (though as she points out, how ...
LOS ANGELES, April 15 (UPI) --The Shrouds, in theaters Friday, boasts an intriguing premise from writer/director David Cronenberg. The film's ambiguous resolution, however, is more anticlimactic than ...
To its credit, “The Shrouds” begins by taking a bold swing. It decides to use its best scene right away. After the ominous and ethereal opening credits, director David Cronenberg presents an image of ...
The term “body horror” was first used, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, in a 1983 essay about Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, and that was before he made the movie that shows a woman ...
In David Cronenberg’s latest film, “The Shrouds,” the lines between life and death, emotion and pathology, and biology and technology become blurred. Even the movie’s tone lands in a liminal space ...