The Shrouds is a 2024 horror film about an innovative businessman and grieving widower who builds a device to connect with the dead.
Written and directed by David Cronenberg (Crimes of the Future; A History of Violence; eXistenZ; Dead Ringers; The Fly; The Dead Zone; Videodrome; Scanners; The Brood; Rabid; Shivers).
The Canadian-French Prospero Pictures-SBS Productions movie stars Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Al Sapienza, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, Matt Willis, Jeff Yung, Eric Weinthal and Steve Switzman.
The soundtrack score was composed by frequent collaborator Howard Shore (A History of Violence; Dead Ringers; The Fly; Videodrome).
Plot:
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool installed at his state-of-the-art – though controversial cemetery allows him and his clients to watch their specific departed loved one decompose in real-time.
Karsh’s revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery are vandalized and nearly destroyed, including that of his wife. While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, drives him to reevaluate his business, marriage and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, as well as push him to new beginnings…
Lead Diane Kruger previously revealed to Variety that she plays three roles in The Shrouds: The wife of Cassel’s character, the sister of the wife, and “an avatar, a sort of personal assistant”. She added that it’s about grief and probably the “most personal film of Cronenberg’s career”, hinting that it’s actually about the recent passing of the legendary filmmaker’s wife:
“We just finished filming it. I think it might be his most personal film because it talks about him and the passing of his wife […] I was very emotional making it because I knew it was so close to him and he was a little bit detached because of it. I could feel him being so vulnerable. I hope it’s going to be great.”
The Shrouds will premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Teaser trailer:
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