The Shrouds (2025)
Directed by David Cronenberg
Inconsolable since the death of his wife, prominent businessman Karsh Relikh invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated, and he sets out to track down the perpetrators.
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Horror and grief can be a provocative combination, as seen with David Cronenberg’s thoughts on the grieving process in The Shrouds.
I can count on one hand the horror films I’ve seen in a cinema, in the past two years, that did some active damage to me, where I couldn’t do anything but sit and feel deeply unwell after having seen them: Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, and now RackaRacka’s Bring Her Back.
(The contrast of maturity in “Bring Her Back” and David Cronenberg’s late period tour-de-force “The Shrouds” is stark.)
There’s a powerful film to be made about how grief can turn us into existential sleuths, trying to find some explanation for a tragedy beyond comparison––that film is called The Shrouds, and David Cronenberg lets you live in his protagonist’s headspace…