The Shrouds - Reviews

David Cronenberg’s futuristic death film The Shrouds is more than just a thriller.

...a contorted sphinx without a secret, an eroticised necrophiliac meditation on grief, longing and loss that returns this director to his now very familiar Ballardian fetishes.

...David Cronenberg is interested in how we decay. And so is Karsh (Vincent Cassel), who has taken his sorrow over the death of his wife Becca (Diane Kruger) and turned it into a tech entrepreneurship.

It feels straight from Cronenberg’s heart. We’re just not sure where the rest of the film came from.

Death is front-and-center in the latest metaphor-heavy film from the body horror king.

David Cronenberg’s disquieting story of grief and mourning.

It could be too cerebral for body-horror devotees, but give it a chance and it might just crawl right under your skin.

Body-horror master David Cronenberg returns with one of his most potent movies, a paranoid, tech-based sci-fi thriller that's bold enough to deal in uncertainty and illusion.

A quintessentially late film from an artist who’s always been ahead of his time, 'The Shrouds' is Cronenberg at his most inhospitable; its morgue-like coldness eventually reveals itself to be deeply comforting to some degree.

...seems to me a more ruthlessly honest treatment of what terminal cancer does to the body and soul of its victims and their survivors than most “realistic” films dare attempt.

...if you’re will­ing to take what Cro­nen­berg is giv­ing you and tap into the film’s rich emo­tion­al main­frame, then the gifts (and heart­break) will be plentiful.

Mardrömslik och makaber sci-fi-studie i sorg och paranoia.