David Cronenberg Expects Walkouts Of New Movie

David Cronenberg expects walkouts within the first five minutes when his new movie Crimes of the Future plays at Cannes. Cronenberg of course gained a reputation as the master of body horror with masterpieces like Scanners, The Fly and Crash. But the Canadian director later moved away from the genre that made him famous to focus on prestige dramas like A History of Violence and Eastern Promises. Now with his latest film Crimes of the Future, Cronenberg has executed another career 180 and unexpectedly returned to the world of body horror. And horrific the movie indeed seems to be, as teased in a recent Crimes of the Future red band trailer. Starring frequent Cronenberg collaborator Viggo Mortensen, the movie concerns a performance artist who grows strange organs inside his body and puts his bizarre metamorphoses on display for the public. The movie co-stars Lea Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Don McKellar and Scott Speedman.


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Clearly Cronenberg hasn’t pulled any punches with his latest vision of horror focused on human bodies undergoing strange and horrifying changes. Indeed, Crimes of the Future is so gruesome in its depictions of futuristic surgery and other bodily outrages that the director actually expects that many in his audience won’t be able to handle it. Indeed just the fact that Crimes of the Future ever got made is something of an unlikely story given the film’s long, hard road to the screen. Originally set to begin production in 2003 under the title Painkillers, the movie was supposed to star Nicolas Cage as the performance artist Saul Tenser until Ralph Fiennes was re-cast in the role. Unfortunately the movie never happened in its original form and Cronenberg later claimed he was no longer interested in making the project. But clearly the spark returned and it will no doubt be a gratifying experience for the director when Crimes of the Future finally arrives in theaters and begins weaving its gruesome spell over the audience, causing panic attacks and forcing some to bolt for the exits.


Many filmmakers would of course be offended by the sight of people walking out of their new movie. But it seems Cronenberg is actually looking forward to a fair portion of his Cannes audience noisily leaving their seats and heading for the exits. Cronenberg’s whole remark about people having panic attacks during the film in fact sounds like a great marketing line, not unlike The Exorcist using reports of people fainting to help sell that classic film to horror-hungry audiences back in 1973. Crimes of the Future is set for wide release on June 10, 2022.

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