Crash

Crash

1996 · 100 min · EN · NC-17 · 6.5 (1,463 votes)
Dir. David Cronenberg · Starring James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette, Peter MacNeill · Music Howard Shore

“Exploring the ultimate thrill where body and metal become one.”

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A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.

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A clinically detached yet intensely erotic slow-burn, this film delves into the unsettling allure of fetishism and the transgressive depths of desire. It's a provocative, disturbing journey into the human body's capacity for pleasure and pain, wrapped in a cold, almost sterile aesthetic that amplifies its unsettling themes.

eroticdisturbingtransgressiveclinicalunsettlingprovocativeslow-burnbody horror adjacentclinical aestheticpsychological thrillertransgressive cinemaCronenbergiansexual obsessionfetishismbody modificationtransgressionthe eroticism of danger
dying and deathadulteryhusband wife relationshipbased on novel or booksexual obsessionpainsadismsexualityobsessionfetisheroticismcar journeyfetishismwoundmasochismdeceived husbandculthospital
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