The Shrouds

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The Shrouds

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2025

1h 59m

Mystery & Thriller

Sci-Fi

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Karsh, a creative entrepreneur who lost his spouse, develops a machine designed to communicate with deceased individuals.

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Ruminating on the love within loss, The Shrouds is a personal and peculiar examination of grief by director David Cronenberg.

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Nicolas Rapold

Sight & Sound

Dec 31

It isn’t necessarily about the horrors of the decaying body, but of the horror of its no longer being there – which means that above all, Cronenberg has made a love story.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Oct 7

It’s morbid, fetishistic and unsettling. But compared to the full-blooded nastiness of his enthusiastically lurid earlier works, The Shrouds, with its glum, moss-coloured photography, feels inert, woolly and ultimately rather tedious.

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Sergio Burstein

Los Angeles Times

Aug 12

While this circumstance might disappoint those hoping for a work with a greater immediate impact, it is clear proof that the author's intellectual level remains intact at 82 years of age. [Full review in Spanish]

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Luke Goodsell

The Saturday Paper

Jul 16

In the body, Cronenberg finds not horror but a kind of beauty and resilience, even as it becomes a battleground for medicine and technology.

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Don Kaye

Moviefone

Jul 15

7/10

Even if it doesn’t all add up in the end, The Shrouds is still an occasionally heady meditation on how we deal with mortality.

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Jared Mobarak

Hey, Have You Seen ...?

Jan 9

5/10

Cronenberg simply plays it all straight, bleeding nightmare and reality together in a way that erases both. It’s a puzzle intentionally built without a solution. Instead of providing intrigue, however, it felt like a complete waste of time.

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shareef mcintosh

05/17/2025

Terrible, no plot, no action, no suspense, no thrills

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Ian

05/17/2025

A very strange meditation on grief that could only come from the mind of David Cronenberg.

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scott w

05/06/2025

Can you give less than a half? What was this movie even about? Holy cow was this boring. I will say, I’d like to see what the main actor could do in a real movie. He is an excellent protagonist. I can’t believe they actually got Guy Pearce (doing his best Greg Kinnear impression) to do this movie. It had something to do with being able to use tech to watch a buried body rot and how foreign governments could use it to spy? Then the movie just ended.

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Jontinez

05/06/2025

It was heartbreaking, unnerving, and unsatisfying. The film was far too wrapped up in its paranoia.

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R

05/04/2025

Very slow paced. Interesting topic and a tiny. Hard to make sense of some of it.

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DeWayne

05/03/2025

dry, confusing, dull, and it feels a bit conceited. the main character is consumed with his wife's death.

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Synopsis

Karsh, a creative entrepreneur who lost his spouse, develops a machine designed to communicate with deceased individuals.

Director: David Cronenberg
Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd, Anthony Vaccarello, Martin Katz
Screenwriter: David Cronenberg
Distributor: Sideshow / Janus Films
Production Co: Prospero Pictures
Rating: R (Some Violent Content|Language|Graphic Nudity|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 18, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 8, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $755.9K
Runtime: 1h 59m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital