If its about unforgettable nightmare images and disgusting body horror goes, David Cronenberg is a master of his trade. With films like Videodrome or Crash, the Canadian director has created outstanding contributions to the genre that are immediately etched into one’s memory.
Cronenberg hasn’t directed a feature film since 2014’s Maps to the Stars, but he’s finally returned to the big screen. Crimes of the Future caused a scandal when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, but the film behind it is worth it above all for that Mixture of classic Cronenberg horror and clever sci-fi ideas.
Watch the German trailer for Crimes of the Future here:
Crimes of the Future – Trailer (German) HD
Crimes of the Future celebrates the post-apocalypse with bizarre bodies and surgical sex
In his new feature film, the director paints a picture of a decayed, post-apocalyptic future in which humanity has completely changed. While feelings like pain are hardly felt anymore, new organs grow uncontrollably in some people in the body.
Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) is also affected and has developed a performance art show with his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux). They are being closely watched by the National Organ Registry as a mysterious plastic-feeding group usher in the next level of humanity want.
The synopsis of Crimes of the Future could hardly sound more like David Cronenberg and the director still lives up to his reputation even after the long cinema break. But his latest film isn’t nearly as scandalous or shocking as it was initially touted.
Crimes of the Future forms grotesque bodies, lustful surgeries and bizarre acts in between almost elegantly, while Cronenberg reduces his post-apocalyptic world and at the same time brings it to life in a very atmospheric way.
The filmmaker’s typical nightmare images are wonderfully complemented by the profound sci-fi ideas. Cronenberg’s body horror films have always been about chilling deformations and alien outgrowths as exciting new potential to acknowledge.
His latest film feels like an apt post-body horror film in which all possibilities of transformation have already been explored. Now it’s about being in the midst of all the nightmare images and bizarre cravings new human existence to shape. At the very end, Cronenberg finds a consoling conclusion.
Crimes of the Future is currently still in cinemas.
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