David Cronenberg Returns to Icky Body Horror in ‘Crimes of the Future’ Trailer

David Cronenberg is getting bizarre once more within the gloopy, unsettling trailer for his new movie Crimes of the Future. Premiering at Cannes, the unnerving flick stars Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen and Lea Seydoux in a return to the Existenz director’s physique horror roots.

“Because the human species adapts to an artificial atmosphere,” explains the Crimes of the Future’s synopsis, “the physique undergoes new transformations and mutations”. Mortensen performs a star artist who publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. He and Seydoux are the targets of obsessive investigator performed by Stewart, they usually face a mysterious group planning to disclose the subsequent part of human evolution. Which is able to presumably be extraordinarily unusual and positively very squelchy, judging by the trailer (watch with warning).

Cronenberg describes Crimes of the Future as an “evolution of issues I’ve finished earlier than. Followers will see key references to different scenes and moments from my different movies. That is a continuity of my understanding of expertise as related to the human physique… At this essential junction in human historical past, one wonders —  can the human physique evolve to resolve issues we now have created? Can the human physique evolve a course of to digest plastics and synthetic supplies not solely as a part of an answer to the local weather disaster, but in addition, to develop, thrive, and survive?” 

Crimes of the Future re-uses the title of his his first function, though it is not a remake of the 1970 movie (though Cronenberg wrote the script within the late Nineteen Nineties and dusted it off to deal with at the moment’s issues). It sees a return to the icky, sticky physique horror that marked Cronenberg as a style icon with flicks like Shivers, Rabid, Videodrome, The Fly, and Existenz. Extra just lately he made much less bizarre movies like A Historical past of Violence, Japanese Guarantees and his final movie Maps to the Stars in 2014.

Crimes of the Future will probably be launched in June after premiering on the Cannes movie competition 2022, which begins Could 17. Different movies within the competition embody High Gun: Maverick, Bay Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic and new movies from Claire Denis, Kelly Reichardt and George Miller (in addition to probably David Lynch).