‘The Shrouds’: Watch 3 Clips From David Cronenberg’s Cannes Horror About Grief & Reconnecting With The Dead

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg (“Crime of The Future”) returns to the festival circuit with “The Shrouds,” making its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Three first-look clips from the film have made their way online (via the Cannes website), and you can watch those scenes below.

The horror/speculative science-fiction thriller sees Cronenberg reunite with French actor Vincent Cassel following their collaboration on the Russian mobster drama “Eastern Promises” (a sequel was once in development but has been nixed). The movie, seemingly centered on the themes of mortality, grief, and the possibility of reconnecting with the deceased, centers on a new technology that enables people to communicate with the dead. Other cast members include Diana Kruger in multiple roles, Guy Pearce as Maury, and Sandrine Holt as Soo-Min.

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A synopsis for “Shrouds” via Cannes reads as follows:

Karsh (Vincent Cassel), 50, is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.

“The Shrouds” is said to have originally started as a potential Netflix series that was ultimately rejected before Cronenberg turned it into a feature film attempt instead. This comes after fellow filmmaker David Lynch has also seen his own struggles to get the streamer to greenlight his long-gestating animated film “Snootworld” and “Unrecorded Night.”

Currently, the film is without a domestic release, but it’s coming to French theaters on September 25, 2024, and could give us an idea of when “The Shrouds” could drop in the U.S. later in the year. It should be noted that Cronenberg’s last film, “Crimes of The Future,” was distributed by NEON, so who knows, they could easily get involved with his follow-up too.

Clips removed at the request of the filmmakers.