The Shrouds

The Shrouds

2025 · 120 min · EN · R · 5.8 (276 votes)
Dir. David Cronenberg · Starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale · Music Howard Shore

“How dark are you willing to go?”

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Inconsolable since the death of his wife, prominent businessman Karsh Relikh invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated, and he sets out to track down the perpetrators.

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This film plunges into a profound, technological grief, weaving a tapestry of unsettling dread and creeping paranoia. It's a somber, thought-provoking journey through the ethics of loss and the terrifying intimacy of death, building a palpable sense of unease with its steady, melancholic rhythm.

dread-soakedmelancholicparanoidunsettlingsombersteadycerebral sci-fi horrorexistential dreadpsychological thrillerbody horror elementsgrieftechnological ethicssurveillancemortalityparanoia
artificial intelligence (a.i.)widowcemeterytoronto, canadavandalismgriefconspiracydeathsister-in-lawgraveyardentrepreneurparanoiddeath of wifeburialblind womanbody horror
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