Watch The Trailer For David Cronenberg's 'The Shrouds'

The Shrouds is a horror-drama-sci-fi film, and is directed and written by David Cronenberg.

Plot

The Shrouds stars Vincent Cassel as Karsh, a businessman overwhelmed with grief at the death of his wife who builds a device, a high-tech shroud, to watch her body decompose in real-time. But one night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated and Karsh looks to track down the perpetrators.

About The Film

Director David Cronenberg has this to say about the film:

It’s a fictionalization of some real emotions, some real people. But basically, despite the fact that there’s some reality, some autobiography involved, none of that makes it a good film. It needs to be a good film.

Cronenberg first pitched the project to Netflix as a TV series, inspired by the grief he felt after his wife's death in 2017, and Netflix funded the first episode but then decided not to move forward with the series.

Trailer

Director and Cast

The film is directed by David Cronenberg, and the cast includes Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Sandrine Holt, Guy Pearce, Viggo Mortensen, Elizabeth Saunders, Al Sapienza.