The Dead Rot In David Cronenberg’s Sci-fi Horror The Shrouds
Things are getting weird in David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds. Janus Films have released a new Trailer that teases the dead will rot in this sci-fi horror.
The film stars Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt. Cronenberg no no big introduction, he is the master of genre film and body horror. This film is his return to sci-fi and we find ourselves in a high tech future. Karsh (Cassel) is an tech entrepreneur who creates a new burial system after loosing his wife. After starting a relationship with his wife’s sister (Kruger) The Shrouds graves are vandalised, was it really vandalism?
In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy. Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, The Shrouds is a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite.
This Trailer is for the U.S promotion. Studiocanal are set to give the film a UK and Irish cinema release, and it looks like 18th April will be the release date. Janus Films will release The Shrouds from 25th April in the U.S.
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