Crimes of the Future (1970)
Directed by David Cronenberg
In a dystopic world where a plague is killing off pubescent human females, an esoteric researcher seeks his missing mentor while trying to retain morality in the sex-obsessed society he lives in.
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What critics compared Crimes of the Future to
The film owes a major debt to the master of body horror David Cronenberg, who has a new film “Crimes of the Future” coming.
Shot (mostly) in Greece during the pandemic summer of 2021, Glass Onion is a cheerier companion piece to Crimes of the Future , shot in the country right after; Cronenberg went nighttime and dank, but Johnson leans into the time-honored tradition of movies that showcase attractive people against beautiful scenery.
Antlers Holst (Michael Wincott), a leathery veteran cinematographer who has the same look and desiccated aura as Viggo Mortensen’s character in Crimes of the Future , gets lured in with the promise of a legendary shot and the challenge of capturing something that temporarily disables whatever electronics it comes near.
Mandy is directed and co-written (with Aaron Stewart-Ahn) by Italian-Swedish filmmaker Panos Cosmatos, who caused a stir in 2010 with Beyond the Black Rainbow , a psychedelic horror/sci-fi hybrid that tried to out-Cronenberg such early works by that Canadian maverick as Shivers , Crimes of the Future , and Videodrome .
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Enemy’s “twins” aspect invokes David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers, but the film’s look revels in beige concrete in a way not seen since his early films Stereo, Crimes Of The Future, and Shivers.
In "Crimes of the Future," the gifted Canadian director showed us a victim of a bizarre malady who tries to gain immunity by merging with a woman into a third sex.
You can trace David Cronenberg’s meditations on technology, disease, addiction, and mutation in the body human all the way back to his earliest shorts (Stereo and Crimes of the Future) and features (Shivers and Rabid).