In body-horror moment, Cronenberg is still king

In body-horror moment, Cronenberg is still king

Body-horror master David Cronenberg returns to the genre that he originated — and is now earning prestigious awards recognition — with “The Shrouds.” The film releases in theaters nationwide April 25.

Death, Decomposition and the Maiden

The Shrouds by Hope Madden Cronenberg’s gonna Cronenberg. Isn’t that why we love him? Whether it’s 1983’s Videodrome or 2022’sCrimes of the Future, Dead Ringers (1988) or A Dangerous Method (2011), 1996’s Crash, 1986’s The Fly,  or his first feature, Shivers (1976), David Cronenberg is fascinated by the human body, sex, technology, and conspiracies in a way distinctly his own. Even as you can kind of expect the expected in his latest, The Shroud…

Like Us, But Not: Body Horror is Back

The subgenre’s recent revival in film and art suggests that the human isn’t what it used to be “You are everything they want me to be,” says Elisabeth as she confronts her younger self, Sue, in Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024), one of the most discussed and divisive Hollywood movies of the past year. The film sees Elisabeth, played by Demi Moore, strike a Faustian pact with a shadowy corporation to create Sue, a youthful and ‘more perfect’…