The Shrouds

The multi-award winning, BAFTA-nominated King of Venereal Horror” David Cronenberg (Crash, The Fly, Dead Ringers), leads viewers through a fascinating exploration of the modern overlap between advanced technology and death.In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Cassel) has developed a new technology that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved one's dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Kruger) from cancer, a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his Shroud technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.★★★★★ A Cronenbergian body horror of integrity and force ROGEREBERT.COM★★★★ A coolly crafted and distinct meditation on how loss can transform us, emotionally and physically RADIO TIMES★★★★ A beautiful sci-fi tragicomedy that grows in power the more you consider the ideas it presents SCIFINOW★★★★★ One of the director’s most affecting works to date DEEP FOCUS REVIEWS★★★★ Throbs with raw, human, horrific honesty WASHINGTON POST★★★★ A hypnotic descent into the darkness of grief EMPIRE