The Shrouds

Name: The Shrouds
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: April 18, 2025
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Al Sapienza, Diane Kruger, Elizabeth Saunders, Guy Pearce, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson

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Janus Films | Release Date: April 18, 2025 | R

Starring: Al Sapienza, Diane Kruger, Elizabeth Saunders, Guy Pearce, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Jeff Yung, Jennifer Dale, Matt Willis, Sandrine Holt, Vincent Cassel

Summary: In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into aIn an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy. … Expand

Director: David Cronenberg

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 119 min

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The Independent Clarisse Loughrey

Jul 10, 2025

The sick body is represented as equally tragic and sexually desirable. It’s complex, but radical, too. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

May 20, 2024

Sardonic, unsentimental, and often so cadaverously stiff that the film itself appears to be suffering from rigor mortis, as if its images died at some point along their brief journey from the projector to the screen. Read full review

Jason Gorber

May 28, 2024

Cassel and Kruger shine, but the rest of the performances feel either staid or over-the-top. Some of the story comes across as pretentious, and some of the pacing is disjointed and inelegant. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Apr 23, 2025

It’s a wail of grief, an expression of love, a testament to the body. Cronenberg puts it all on the line here, and he gets his actors to put it all on the line with him. If you don’t feel its visceral charge, you’re not paying attention. Read full review

Brianna Zigler

Oct 9, 2024

The Shrouds might not be Cronenberg’s most accessible or cohesive film, but it’s just as muddled as the process of coping with mortality in a world where we are pulled steadily further from what makes us human. Read full review

The Film Verdict Stephen Dalton

May 23, 2024

The Shrouds feels a little unruly and unfocussed, with too many loose threads and undernourished side plots. Even so, this is still an absorbingly weird autumnal statement from one of the most consistently original screen voices of his generation, still probing away at some familiar psychosexual obsessions, this time under a gathering cloud of looming mortality. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

May 20, 2024

As The Shrouds goes on, it becomes more earnest and more nutty. I think Cronenberg thinks he’s making movies that audiences will experience as feature-length versions of his own dreams. Here’s the difference: When you’re in a dream, you believe what’s happening. Read full review

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