It's been a while since we heard anything about The Shrouds, the upcoming feature from body horror master David Cronenberg, but today brings a first look image - and it's just as morbid and spooky as one would hope and expect.
Starring Vincent Cassel (Irréversible, Black Swan), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Guy Pearce (Memento) and Fear the Walking Dead's Sandrine Holt, The Shrouds has been described by the auteur himself as "a very personal project for me", as well as hinting that "people who know me will know parts of it are autobiographical."
What we know of the plot so far, via Deadline, reads as follows:
Cassel will play 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 the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery are vandalized and nearly destroyed, including that of his wife. While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, drive him to reevaluate his business, marriage and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, as well as push him to new beginnings. Holt plays a mysterious woman, the wife of a billionaire, who contacts Cassel’s Karsh about a strange project involving her husband.
The first images - which see Cassel and Kruger walking through a bizarre, eerily-lit graveyard, were shared via Twitter by user @TerenceYiBo (full post seen below), and made their first appearance in print in the iconic French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma.
At the time of writing, The Shrouds doesn't yet have a release date or trailer - but we will of course be bringing you all the updates as they roll in!
First image of Cronenberg’s THE SHROUDS, from this month’s Cahiers pic.twitter.com/RfLP8AoYGH
— TWY (@TerenceYiBo) January 3, 2024
