Crimes of the Future

Name: Crimes of the Future
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Released: August 10, 1984
Duration: 63 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Iain Ewing, Jack Messinger, Jon Lidolt, Paul Mulholland, Rafe Macpherson

1984

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New Cinema Enterprises | Release Date: August 10, 1984 | Not Rated

Starring: Iain Ewing, Jack Messinger, Jon Lidolt, Paul Mulholland, Rafe Macpherson, Raymond Woodley, Ronald Mlodzik, Stefan Czernecki, Tania Zolty, William Haslam

Summary: Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod (Ronald Mlodzik), sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population ofCrimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod (Ronald Mlodzik), sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population of sexually mature women. Tripod joins a succession of organisations including Metaphysical Import-Export and the Oceanic Podiatry Group, and meets various individuals and groups of men who are trying to adjust themselves to a defeminized world. One man parodies childbirth by continually growing new organs which are removed from his body. Eventually Tripod comes upon a group of paedophiles which is holding a 5 year-old girl, and they urge him to mate with her. He senses the presence of Antoine Rouge.… Expand

Director: David Cronenberg

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 63 min

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The humour couldn't be blacker, and the quality of invention is outrageously high. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Gradually, Crimes of the Future becomes a surprisingly thorough and anticipatory working draft of the prototypical Cronenberg body-horror film, dramatizing, with characteristically repulsed fascination, a series of biological mutations that usher in a micro-culture given to cannibalism, pedophilia, and other practices that indicate a looming erasure of personal identity. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Fans of innovative Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg will recognize the emergence of his unique voice in this 1970 project, the director's second feature (following the 1969 Stereo). Read full review

The Playlist Staff (Not Credited)

Crimes of the Future sounds a whole lot more fascinating than it actually is: it’s a more interesting film to read/write about than to watch, which just goes to show how Cronenberg at this early stage was still closer to a kind of literary, idea-based storytelling, and had not yet mastered the filmmaking side of the equation. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Cronenberg’s obsession for such matters as bodily mutation and grotesque growths, aberrant medical experiments, massive plagues and futuristic architecture are all here in a convoluted look at a future gone perverse. Read full review

Dave Kehr

All of Cronenberg’s personal obsessions—the distortion of the body, the grotesquerie of sex—are on display, though the treatment is a bit sophomoric. A curiosity item for hard-core Cronenberg fans. Read full review

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