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For cinephiles of a certain proclivity, a new David Cronenberg movie is a true event.

The director, who just turned 82, has a filmography so singular and distinct that the word “Cronenbergian” has become an adjective and if somebody uses it you know exactly what they mean – twisted, visionary and usually dealing with body horror or technological investigation (oftentimes both).

Cronenberg’s latest, “The Shrouds,” is one of the filmmaker’s very best, most personal movies and, since it premiered last summer at the Cannes Film Festival, the wait has been excruciating.

But now that it’s here, how can you watch it? Read on to find out.

What is the release date?

As of April 25, “The Shrouds” is now in theaters nationwide. It was in limited release last week but is now playing everywhere. As it should be.

Is it streaming?

It is not. You will have to go to...

Audiences hungry for David Cronenberg’s infamous brand of body horror may have hoped that 2022’s Crimes of the Future marked his return to the genre. That film, which formed an unofficial trilogy that began with 1983’s Videodrome and continued in 1999’s eXistenZ, featured several callbacks to the Canadian director’s recurring visual and thematic interests.

The Shrouds, Cronenberg’s latest, is even less of a genre film than Crimes of the Future, though it does share its predecessor’s same dark sense of humour, as well as the director’s tendency to revisit or reconsider his previous work.

The film is ostensibly set in 2023, four years after the death of Karsh (Vincent Cassel)’s wife, Becca (Diane Kruger). Becca died of bone cancer and Karsh has yet to recover, as the opening scene of him crying during a visit to the dentist proves.

The introductory scenes also establish the...

David Cronenberg would like to have a few words with you about death.

There have, of course, been an abundance of folks who’ve shuffled off this mortal coil within the Canadian filmmaker’s nearly six decades’ worth of movies, often in the most baroque, grotesque manner possible. (Who could ever forget this? Or this? Or even this?) No one dies in a Grand Guignol-style manner in The Shrouds, Cronenberg’s chilly, chic mix of conspiracy thriller, corporate-espionage drama, and cryptic-in-more-ways-than-one meditation on mourning routines; apologies if that constitutes a spoiler.

David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release next month. The Shrouds will be reaching theatres in New York and Los Angeles on April 18th, then will expand nationwide on April 25th. With those dates right around the corner, a trailer has dropped online and can be seen in the embed above.

In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel, who previously worked with Cronenberg on Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method, takes on the role of Karsh,...

David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release sometime in 2025. We don’t know a specific release date for this one yet, but the Motion Picture Association ratings board has revealed that The Shrouds has secured an R rating – primarily for sexual content and nudity! Here’s the reason given: Rated R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some violent content.

Pyramide Distribution will be giving the film a theatrical release in France on April 30th.

David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release sometime in the spring of 2025. We don’t know a specific release date for this one yet, but a new teaser trailer has arrived online and you can check it out in the embed above. We saw the previous teaser trailer eight months ago.

Pyramide Distribution will be giving the film a theatrical release in France on April 30th.

In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel, who previously...

Body horror fans, get ready to be thrilled by this exciting news! David Cronenberg's latest body horror flick The Shrouds finally has a U.S. release date. When Sideshow and Janus Films picked up the U.S. rights to the film back in September 2024, the companies revealed that it would be hitting theaters in the U.S. in spring 2025. That meant anywhere between March and June. Now, we have an official release date for its U.S. theatrical debut!

Before hitting theaters nationwide, The Shrouds will be released on Friday, April 18, 2025, in New York and Los Angeles. Then, on Friday, April 25, the body horror will be available in theaters across the country. Don't forget to mark your calendar because you won't want to miss this latest chilling creation from David Cronenberg.

If you're familiar with Cronenberg's previous work, you'd know that he's in no way new to the body horror subgenre.

Stars: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, Eric Weinthal | Written and Directed by David Cronenberg

The Shrouds, the latest film from director David Cronenberg is a poorly conceived hodge-podge of ideas about sex, death and technology, with a dash of bog-standard body horror thrown in. Tonally, it’s all over the place, which means it fails to satisfy on a number of different levels.

As the film begins, it feels like jet jet-black comedy, except you’re not sure just how much you’re actually meant to be laughing. It opens in a restaurant, where tech genius Karsh (Vincent Cassel) – who also owns the restaurant – is entertaining a beautiful young woman (Elizabeth Saunders as Gray Foner) on a first date. Abruptly, he insists she accompanies him outside to the adjoining cemetery – which he also owns – so that he can show her not just the...

Photo: Christopher Russell, Ashley Newbrough Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy Vortex Media

Readers may remember that Operation Nutcracker previously aired on Hallmark Movies Now as part of the network’s Christmas in July. Meanwhile, Hallmark Movies Now has since upgraded and is now Hallmark+.

Moreover, anyone who didn’t see the movie in July can now enjoy a premiere of Operation Nutcracker on Hallmark Channel as part of the Countdown to Christmas 2024 programming event.

Operation Nutcracker heading to Hallmark Channel Photo: Cassie Cao, Jennifer Dale, Ashley Newbrough, Christopher Russell Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy Vortex Media

According to the official synopsis, Operation Nutcracker sees event planner extraordinaire Lottie Morgan (Ashley Newbrough) given the opportunity of a lifetime amidst her hectic schedule. She gets to plan a high-profile Christmas charity auction for the country’s most philanthropic family, the Warbys.

Meanwhile, the black sheep of the family, Tristan Warby (Christopher Russell...

After having its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival back in May, The Shrouds will have its France theatrical debut on Jan. 22, 2025, followed by its U.S. theatrical release in spring 2025. Yes, you read that right. Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the U.S. rights to The Shrouds and set its release in U.S. theaters this coming spring.

An official release date has not been revealed just yet, but a spring release means we're looking at somewhere between March 20, 2025, and June 20, 2025. No worries! We'll get back to you with the official U.S. release date once it's announced.

The Shrouds is described as an arthouse horror film. It was written and helmed by David Cronenberg, who you might recognize as the writer and director of the horror films Shivers, Scanners, Videodrome and The Fly. Initially, it was going to be a Netflix show, but the streaming giant...

David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Deadline reports that Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release sometime in the spring of 2025.

In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel, who previously worked with Cronenberg on Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method, takes on the role of Karsh, “an innovative businessman and grieving widower, who builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool installed at his own state-of-the-art though controversial cemetery allows him and his...

Diane Kruger is looking chic at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival!

The 48-year-old actress wore a black silk blouse with a lace skirt and a black veil as she attended the premiere of her new movie The Shrouds on Wednesday (Sept. 11) at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Canada.

Joining Diane at the premiere were her costars Sandrine Holt, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, and Jeff Yung along with director David Cronenberg.

In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel plays Karsh, “a technological entrepreneur still grieving the death of his wife Becca (Kruger) four years earlier. He has thrown himself into his work, devising technologically augmented burial shrouds that let loved ones watch their lost family members decompose. It’s the closest thing to being there with them — and no, it’s not for everyone. But when his wife’s plot is among several desecrated in an apparent act of vandalism, Karsh slips into...

“The Ugly Chickens,” a short film from “Game of Thrones” creator George R.R. Martin, is set to premiere at Hollyshorts Film Festival.

Starring Felicia Day (“Supernatural”), the short is based on Howard Waldrop’s Nebula Award-winning famous story. Science fiction author Waldrop was a friend of Martin’s. He died in 2024. Martin has plans to adapt a further three of Waldrop’s short stories into films.

Martin said: “Howard saw a rough cut of [“The Ugly Chickens”] before he died. He liked it, which pleases me no end. I only wish we had been able to screen the final cut for him.”

Jennifer Dale (“Coroner”), Natalie Charles (“Suits”) and Mag Ruffman (“Alias Grace”) also star in the short, which was shot on location in Toronto,

“Upon learning that the supposedly extinct dodo bird might still exist, ornithology professor Paula Linberl sets out on a cross-country expedition to unravel the mystery,” reads the synopsis.

Photo: Christopher Russell, Ashley Newbrough Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy Vortex Media

Hallmark Movies Now has announced a new, original movie, Operation Nutcracker, which is set to premiere as part of Hallmark Channel’s Christmas In July Movie Stunt.

The movie is led by Ashley Newbrough and Christopher Russell. Read on to find out more about the movie, including its plot and cast, and see beautiful images taken on the film set.

Operation Nutcracker on Hallmark Movies Now Photo: Ashley Newbrough Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy Vortex Media

According to the official synopsis, Operation Nutcracker sees event planner extraordinaire Lottie Morgan (Ashley Newbrough) given the opportunity of a lifetime amidst her hectic schedule. She gets to plan a high-profile Christmas charity auction for the country’s most philanthropic family, the Warbys.

Meanwhile, the black sheep of the family, Tristan Warby (Christopher Russell) is entrusted with bringing home the prized auction item,...

Netflix executives rejected David Cronenberg's concept for a 10-episode series, leading him to turn it into a film instead. The Shrouds is deeply personal for Cronenberg, echoing his own experiences with loss and grief after his wife's death. Despite mixed reviews, Cronenberg defends the film's narrative direction and highlights its exploration of conspiracy theories surrounding death.

The Shrouds from seminal director David Cronenberg premiered at Cannes this week, but its journey began as a concept for a 10-episode series pitched to Netflix. During a press conference for the sci-fi thriller, Cronenberg revealed that Netflix execs rejected the project (via The Hollywood Reporter). According to Cronenberg, the streamer's executives liked the script for the first episode but did not want to move forward after the second episode.

"They said and this is a very Hollywood thing to say 'It's not what we fell in love with in the room,'" Cronenberg said.

Iconic directors named David haven’t been having the best luck with the Netflix streaming service lately. David Lynch recently revealed that Snootworld, an animated movie he hopes to make, had been rejected by Netflix, and now David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which just made its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (you can read some of the first reactions Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode.

During a press conference at Cannes, Cronenberg said (according to The Hollywood Reporter) that he “envisioned the story working well as a series. He flew to Los Angeles to speak with two Netflix execs who financed the writing of a first episode – which they loved. But after the second, they did not want to go any further.” Cronenberg went on to say,...

The Shrouds teaser reveals Cronenberg's return, featuring Cassel as a widower who creates a device connecting the living with the dead. Cassel's intense performance infuses the film with tragedy as Karsh questions the morality of his invention amid desecration of graves. The star-studded cast, including Pearce and Kruger, promises brilliance in this supernatural, psychological horror movie premiering at Cannes in 2024.

Director David Cronenberg's much-awaited project, The Shrouds. has revealed its first teaser trailer, giving just a small glimpse of what the master of boundary-pushing cinema is unleashing this time. The upcoming movie, along with his previous movie Crimes of the Future, marks Cronenbergs return to the directors chair after a long hiatus helming films. The last feature Cronenberg previously directed was 2014s Map of the Stars. Cronenberg has created some of the most iconic horror films in the 80s such as The Fly, Scanners, The Dead Zone and Videodrome.

Vincent Cassel and David Cronenberg are getting the band back together for The Shrouds, a disturbing meditation about grief, making peace with death, and watching your loved ones decompose in real time. Yeah, you heard me. The Shrouds teaser trailer offers a brief glimpse at Cronenberg’s next mind-bending thriller and the filmmaker’s first project with Cassel since teaming up for Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method. According to Cronenberg, The Shrouds is a personal project for him, with parts of the story being autobiographical.

In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassell takes on the role of Karsh, “an innovative businessman and grieving widower, who builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool installed at his own 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...

Susan Ireland could use a spa day. The character, played to winning ends by Sarah Levy on SYFYs SurrealEstate, has been facing extreme challenges in her lavish new house in season two of the hit supernatural dramedy. Let’s just say that when the house’s communication system traps you inside of it and then pulls a Carol Burnett, saying, “I’ve enjoyed having you here these past few days,” something is horribly off.

It’s one of the many inventive twists found in season two of the show, headlined by Tim Rozon (Wynonna Earp) and Sarah Levy, who previously starred alongside each other in the Emmy-winning comedy series Schitt's Creek. Their new series also stars Maurice Dean Wint, Tennille Read, Adam Korson, Savannah Basley, Jennifer Dale, and Allison Woolridge. The plots follow real estate agent Luke Roman (Rozon) and an elite team of specialists as they take on cases nobody else can.

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Jenny is determined to start anew after suffering a loss. Has the Coroner TV show been cancelled or renewed for a fifth season on The CW? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Coroner, season five. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?  

What's This TV Show About?

Airing on The CW television network, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny Cooper (Swan), a coroner who investigates any suspicious, unnatural, or sudden...

The Coroner series has performed well for The CW. It also doesn't cost as much for the network to air because it's licensed by a Canadian network. Unfortunately, regardless of the ratings, a fifth-season renewal is looking unlikely. Star Serinda Swan has announced that the fourth season is her last. While the producers have said that the show may continue, is that a season that people would want to watch? Will Coroner be cancelled or renewed for season five? Stay tuned.

A procedural drama series, the Coroner TV show stars Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny Cooper (Swan), a coroner who investigates...

Jenny dives back into her work in the fourth season of the Coroner TV show on The CW? As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Coroner is cancelled or renewed for season five without its star. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the fourth season episodes of Coroner here.

A CW procedural drama series, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny...

Vulture Watch

Jenny is determined to start anew after suffering a loss. Has the Coroner TV show been cancelled or renewed for a fifth season on The CW? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Coroner, season five. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?  

What's This TV Show About?

Airing on The CW television network, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny Cooper (Swan), a coroner who investigates any suspicious, unnatural, or sudden...

Jenny dives back into her work in the fourth season of the Coroner TV show on The CW? As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Coroner is cancelled or renewed for season five without its star. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the fourth season episodes of Coroner here.

A CW procedural drama series, the Coroner TV show stars Serinda Swan, Roger Cross, Andy McQueen, Ehren Kassam, Kiley May, Jon De Leon, and Thom Allison. Recurring players in the fourth season include Éric Bruneau, Mark Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Jonathan Tan, Sarah Podemski, and Gordon Cooper. The series follows the life of widowed Doctor Jenny...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Today’s Free Movie of the Day is the 2015 horror film The Dark Stranger, and you can check it out over on the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

The feature debut of writer/director Chris Trebilcock, The Dark Stranger has the following synopsis:

Haunted by a terrifying spirit out of her graphic novel, a young artist struggles to overcome her psychosis before it destroys her.

The film stars Katie Findlay, Alex Ozerov-Meyer, Enrico Colantoni, Jennifer Dale, Mark O’Brien, and Emma Campbell, with Stephen McHattie as Randall Toth / The Dark Stranger.

Trebilcock directed multiple short films before diving into the feature world with The Dark Stranger. As of right now,...

"SurrealEstate", the new 10-episode paranormal drama TV series, stars Tim Rozon as 'Luke Roman', the head of a real estate agency that sells haunted houses, premieres July 16, 2021 on Syfy:

Cast also includes Sarah Levy as agent 'Susan Ireland', Adam Korson as paranormal researcher and former priest 'Phil Orley' and Maurice Dean Wint as technology specialist 'August Ripley', Savannah Basley, Tennille Read, Jennifer Dale and Melanie Scrofano.

"...a team of eclectic real estate specialists handle the cases no one else can: haunted and possessed houses that literally scare would-be buyers away. Researching and investigating things that go bump in the night, the team works to create closure—and closings — even as they struggle with demons of their own..."

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"I've always had the feeling that the universe can still surprise us." Screen Media has debuted an official trailer for the indie drama Clara, which premiered at the Toronto and Sitges Film Festivals last year. This indie relationship drama is about a hard-headed astronomy named Dr. Isaac Bruno, played by Patrick J. Adams, who is searching for life out in the universe. One day he meets an impressive artist named Clara, and their connection changes him forever, leading them both on a profound discovery within the cosmos. Troian Bellisario co-stars as Clara, along with Will Bowes, Jennifer Dale, Ennis Esmer, Gabrielle Graham, and Kristen Hager. This film reminds me quite a bit of I Origins, but with an eye on the cosmos above all else. It's a smart, lovely, fascinating film that I would describe as an indie gem worth discovering. Here's the first official Us trailer (+ poster) for Akash Sherman's Clara,...

Katie Findlay has joined the psychothriller that recently commenced principal photography in Toronto. La-based Moonstone Entertainment handles international sales.

Previously announced Enrico Colantoni, Stephen McHattie, Mark O’Brien, Alex Ozerov and Jennifer Dale star in the story of a traumatised artist who becomes haunted by her own graphic novel.

Chris Trebilcock wrote the screenplay and makes his feature directorial debut.

“After developing The Dark Stranger for more than five years, I’m tremendously excited and grateful to see the film come to fruition with such a distinguished cast and crew,” said Trebilcock.

Telefilm Canada and The Praxis Screenplay Competition developed the screenplay, which also took part in the National Screen Institute’s Features First programme and received the Brian Linehan Foundation Award. Telefilm and the Ontario Media Development Corporation assist with the production.

Devonshire Productions’ Paula Devonshire and Viddywell Films’ Glen Wood are producing with Vigilante Productions’ Mark Gingras.

Prodigy Pictures’ Jay Firestone and Vanessa Piazza and Bershire...

by Jesse Miller, MoreHorror.com

When his wife and son leave for a vacation, mild-mannered businessman Bart (Peter Weller) stays behind to get some work done on his latest project.

However, that all changes when he becomes obsessed with capturing a mischievous rodent that begins to cause destruction to his beautiful home, one expensive object at a time.

Bart becomes fixated with capturing the rat so much that he is absentminded during his work hours and hard at work at setting up traps during the evening. At one point, he even interrupts a perfectly pleasant dinner amongst colleagues with random statistics and facts about rats. Yes, these facts are all startling (if true) but even still, his descent into what appears to be madness is a little out of the blue.

Of Unknown Origin is billed as a “suspense-horror” but it feels more like an oddball dark comedy with very slight undertones of horror.

"GravyTrain" is a new Canadian feature, written by Tim Doiron, directed by April Mullen, starring Mullen, Doiron, Jennifer Dale, Colin Mochrie, Kyle Schmid, Peter Keleghan, AC Peterson, Ryan Tilley & Tim Meadows. Executive producers are Michael Mullen and Michael Sparaga.

...'Charles Gravytrain', a hapless 'Private Dick' from 'Gypsy Creek', believes in three things: Truth, Justice, and slapping the no good crook 'Jimmy Fish Eye' in the slammer for life!

"And with the help of his foxy new partner, big city cop 'Miss Uma Booma' he may do just that. But in a town that has more stinky secrets and slippery surprises than a tin of rotten sardines the only question is...Where's the Fish?!..."

"GravyTrain" opens April 23.

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