Death is impossible. It’s a door that you keep waiting to swing open, announcing the entrance of a dinner date who never arrives, or the recurring dream of a person whose prolonged absence makes their ...

Death is an old and familiar concept in the films of David Cronenberg. There have been many casualties from murder, disease, and misadventure in his 50 years as a director, exploring grim corners of ...

David Cronenberg knows exactly how he wants to be buried. In his new movie “The Shrouds” (in theaters nationwide April 25), the Canadian filmmaker imagines a near future where high-definition cameras ...

David Cronenberg laughed through tears as he wrote The Shrouds, his 23rd feature. Following his lifelong exploration of life and death — and how technology blurs the boundary — the film was influenced ...

Before the pandemic, David Cronenberg pitched a series to Netflix. The director of movies like “Videodrome,” “The Fly” and “eXistenZ” – stories that investigated the dangerous frontier of cutting-edge ...

Netflix passed on what would have been an incredible and ambitious TV series, which was quite a bit different than Cronenberg's masterful new film. “It was quite a rewrite,” said Cronenberg. “It ...

Two works—a new film, The Shrouds, and a career-spanning monograph by the film critic Violet Lucca—present a more sanguine image of the master of body horror. In 1975, David Cronenberg’s debut feature ...

The loss of a loved one can shroud one's life in darkness that seemingly consumes everything around them. Some may drown in their grief, and yet others may ask "how dark do I want to go?" In The ...