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Alexandre Mallet-Guy’s Memento has bought Harry Lighton’s sexy romance “Pillion” which is world premiering in Un Certain Regard.

The Paris-based Memento, which is at Cannes with three movies in competition, will release the A24 movie in France. Speaking to Variety, Mallet Guy said, “It’s a gay Bdsm rom-com, and it’s pretty wild.”

“Alexander Skarsgård plays the biker, and Harry Melling, who you might know from ‘Harry Potter,’ plays the submissive. The film is hilarious but also quite disturbing, simply because it’s a romantic comedy set in such a specific, unconventional world. But it really works — it’s surprisingly emotional, and there’s something incredible about seeing two stars take such bold risks,” he added.

Memento’s Cannes competition lineup includes Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” Jafar Panahi’s “A Simple Accident” and Tarik Saleh’s “Eagles of the Republic,” as well as Laura Wandel’s...

Chicago – In the pantheon of filmmaker breakthroughs from the 1980s, David Cronenberg is a “name above the title” … along with Spielberg, Scorsese, Cameron, Stone, Carpenter and Lynch … in his distinct style and influence. His latest film – currently in select theaters – is “The Shrouds.” Patrick McDonald got the privilege of talking to the master.

In “The Shrouds,” the angular Vincent Cassel is Karsh, a bereaved widower who is also a tech financier. In memoriam to his wife Becca, Karsh has built a new style of memorial called GraveTech, in which the bodies of the deceased are enmeshed in a digital shroud, which uses it’s camera chips to project an image of the decaying corpse on a screen embedded in the gravestone. This morbid technique gets some interest for other uses by the Chinese and the Russians, as well as Karsh’s tech expert Maury (Guy Pearce). It is a vandalism...

Exclusive: Red Sea Media arrives in Cannes with international sales rights to the horror thriller Skillhouse starring starring social media personalities Bryce Hall and Hannah Stocking, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Neal McDonough, Leah Pipes, and Emily Mei.

Josh Stolberg, whose credits include Saw X and Jigsaw, wrote and directed the film from GenTV, in which ten influencers are lured into Skillhouse, a sinister content house, and forced to compete in lethal social media challenges.

Producers are Ryan Kavanaugh, Shane Valdez, and Brad Baskin. “We have blended the most compelling elements of modern horror with authentic influencer integration – both within the...

The new David Cronenberg feature, The Shrouds, screened at the Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans this year. I was able to grab a seat at the Sunday afternoon showing which felt very apt for the mellow mood of the film.

With a wide release on April 18th, be prepared for the subtle and quiet weirdness that Cronenberg has honed in his recent releases like Crimes of the Future. The Shrouds is equal parts psychological thriller and body horror, presented very stylistically with a plot that unravels unhurriedly.

The story focuses on the grief of creative director turned death innovator Karsh, played by Vincent Cassel. Karsh has developed a “shroud” system to capture every intimate detail of decay for those who, like himself, find more comfort confronting their loss by immersing themselves in it. After the vandalism of his inaugural high-tech gravesite and the discovery of strange growths on his deceased wife’s skeleton,...

A little over a decade ago, director Steven Spielberg had difficulty explaining to American audiences that Raiders of the Lost Ark was inspired by the comic book series "The Adventures of Tintin," and not the other way around. Spielberg directed a feature film adaptation of the Tintin books in 2011, and while the movie made a decent amount of money worldwide, it struggled to find an audience domestically. The property was simply not a part of popular culture in the United States, at least not to the degree that it was in Europe. Now, another Franco-Belgian comic book icon is getting an opportunity to appeal to audiences across the globe. Netflix recently unveiled its five-episode adaptation of the Astérix comics, titled Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight.

The show is gaining new ground on the streamer's viewership charts, particularly in Europe. According to FlixPatrol, Astérix & Obélix has accumulated over 3,100 points since its release last week,...

Legendary writer/director David Cronenberg maintains his status as Canada’s coolest weirdo with his latest feature The Shrouds. Cronenberg’s conspiracy obsessed techo-mystery stars Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises) as Karsh, a morose but visionary widower who has built an empire dedicated to his eternal grief for his late wife Becca (Diane Kruger, Inglorious Basterds). Through his company GraveTech, Karsh invents a shroud that the deceased are wrapped in at burial which allows the bereaved to view their loved ones in the grave. You know, like a baby monitor for watching your spouse decompose in real-time. Naturally this business is met with all manner of protest but after someone(s) vandalizes his customers’ (and his wife’s) burial plots, Karsh uncovers a bewildering conspiracy that threatens his life, his livelihood, and his link to the grave.

For anyone still on the fence about taking the trip to see The Shrouds during its theatrical run,...

Arriving this Friday on Shudder to test your stomach is The Ugly Stepsister, the feature directorial debut by Emilie Blichfeldt. The Ugly Stepsister retells the classic fairy tale of Cinderella from the perspective of her stepsister, Elvira (Lea Myren), who subjects herself to a variety of barbaric beauty procedures in the pursuit of a happy ever after (our review).

It’s a fairy tale with a gruesome body horror twist. This week’s streaming picks highlight other fairy tale-inspired horror movies, whether they’re direct adaptations or loosely based on them. All blend horror and fantasy to deliver cautionary bedtime tales of the bloody variety.

Here’s where you can stream these fairy tale inspired horror movies this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

Absentia – Hoopla, Prime Video

When creating his eerie supernatural tale, writer/director Mike Flanagan drew inspiration from a few urban myths about tunnels and trolls,...

Producers of French smash hit “The Count of Monte Cristo” and Oscar-nominated “Les Miserables,” Chapter 2 and Srab Films, have set an all-star cast for Ladj Ly’s next film, “Dumas: Black Devil.”

Rising French talent Theo Christine (“Supremes”) will play the title role in the adventure epic film, starring opposite Omar Sy (“Lupin), Vincent Cassel (“Black Swan”) and Francois Civil (“Beating Hearts”).

The buzzy project will be launched by Pathé, Goodfellas and CAA Media Finance at the upcoming Cannes film market. It’s one of the most anticipated and ambitious French films on track to go into production in 2026.

Pathé, which previously handled “The Count of Monte-Cristo” and the two-part saga “The Three Musketeers” (both of which were produced by Chapter 2), will distribute the France on top of partnering with Goodfellas and CAA Media Finance on foreign sales. CAA Media Finance will also represent North America.

“Dumas: Black Devil” will...

Director David Cronenberg’s 2014 Consumed novel could become a TV or film, as the filmmaker says he’s adapting the script.

In 2014, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg became a novelist with Consumed, a characteristically uneasy book about the relationship between cold technology and fleshy humans.

Currently on the promotional trail for his new film, The Shrouds, Cronenberg has suggested that Consumed could eventually become a TV or film, since he’s currently adapting it into a script.

In an interview with Variety (with a hat-tip to World of Reel), the filmmaker has said that the catalyst for the adaptation is Robert Lantos, the producer he’s regularly collaborated with in the past, from 1996’s Crash to 2022’s Crimes Of The Future.

“We’re talking about possibly doing a movie based on my novel Consumed,” Cronenberg said. “[Lantos has] wanted to turn that either into a series or a movie for some years, and...

David Cronenberg’s latest film, The Shrouds, now in theaters via Sideshow and Janus Films, draws from deeply personal experiences without crossing into autobiography, the director insists. The film follows Karsh, a Canadian tech entrepreneur portrayed by Vincent Cassel, who creates a cemetery where loved ones can monitor real-time decomposition through an app-connected burial shroud. The concept stems from Cronenberg’s own grief after the death of his wife, Carolyn, in 2017.

Despite surface parallels between Cronenberg and his protagonist — including Karsh’s distinctive hairstyle and minimalist attire — the filmmaker maintains a sharp distinction between personal experience and fiction. “Once I start writing the screenplay, it becomes fiction and I’m creating fictional characters who are not me,” Cronenberg said in an interview.

The Shrouds explores themes of mourning, love, technology, and existential longing. The film’s origin traces back to Cronenberg’s visceral reaction to losing his wife. He described...

It’s easy to see shadows of David Cronenberg in his newest film, “The Shrouds,” now playing in theaters via Sideshow and Janus Films. Vincent Cassel stars as Karsh, a Canadian tech guru who creates a graveyard where you can watch your loved ones rot in their coffin in real-time via an app. Between Karsh’s styling — which looks very similar to Cronenberg’s signature shock of hair and minimalist chic wardrobe — and the fact that Cronenberg wrote this film after his wife’s passing in 2017, many critics took this to mean the work was largely autobiographical. Cronenberg’s rejection of the notion was just one of the first surprising musings from a discussion with Variety about his approach to art, including his consideration of the audience, embrace of technology and rejection of genre.

So many of your movies feel like they have personal elements. “The Shrouds” seems like one of your most personal works.

David Cronenberg, aficionado of the unnerving, won’t let his feelings about a creator get in the way of a creation. “I still love my Tesla,” says the filmmaker, seated in a dimly lit conference room at the Criterion Collection’s Manhattan office. “My relationship with my Tesla has nothing to do with Elon. We have a separate love.” He smiles wanly.

One of Musk’s machines plays a minor role in Cronenberg’s latest picture, The Shrouds (out now), when the story’s antagonist, Guy Pearce, programs coordinates into...

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...

Before the pandemic, David Cronenberg pitched a series to Netflix.

The director of movies like “Videodrome,” “The Fly” and “eXistenZ” – stories that investigated the dangerous frontier of cutting-edge technology – said that he was interested in streaming as a new form of cinema. “I thought it was really cinema, but it’s not traditional movies – it’s kind of interesting to do, let’s say an eight-hour movie. I thought that’s a form that I maybe would explore,” Cronenberg said. He pitched them an idea that was based on a recent personal tragedy – in 2017 Cronenberg lost his wife of 43 years to cancer. She was only 66.

He told them the story of what would eventually become “The Shrouds” (now in theaters nationwide) – it would follow a man named Karsh, whose wife had tragically died. Bereaved, he concocts the idea for a 21st century cemetery, one that will allow you, through cutting edge technology,...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the new release “The Shrouds,” a psychological thriller/horror film by the legendary auteur David Cronenberg, dealing with themes of loss, mourning and redemption. In select theaters on April 25th, see local listings.

The angular Vincent Cassel is Karsh, a bereaved widower who is also a tech financier. In memoriam to his wife Becca, Karsh has built a new style of memorial called GraveTech, in which the bodies of the deceased are enmeshed in a digital shroud, which uses it’s camera chips to project an image of the decaying corpse on a screen embedded in the gravestone. This morbid technique gets some interest for other uses by the Chinese and the Russians, as well as Karsh’s tech expert Maury (Guy Pearce). It is vandalism at his wife’s graveyard tips the scale of The Shrouds capabilities.

”Little Miss Sociopath...

Netflix’s series 3 Body Problem is gearing up to start shooting seasons two and three back-to-back in Hungary, relocating fromthe UK where it predominantly filmed season one on location and at Shepperton Studios.

Season one also filmed in locations includingNew York, Massachusetts, and Florida, as well as in Spain and Panama.

Filming on the Hungarian shoot is set to start on June 7 in Budapest, with principal photography picking up on July 8 and wrapping on August 2, 2027, according to filings on the Hungarian National Film Office website.The Hungarian production partner is Pioneer, which has credits including Walden Media’s The Billion Dollar Spy starring Russell Crowe,...

Writer/director David Cronenberg’s new film “The Shrouds” was first developed as a television series for Netflix. The sci-fi and body horror master even wrote what would have been the first two episodes, which eventually became the jumping off point for the movie script. But, as Cronenberg told IndieWire while a guest on this week’s episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, the major concept behind the series only partially survived.

“It was quite a rewrite,” said Cronenberg. “It wasn’t just a fusion of the two episodes at all.”

Both the film and would-be TV version revolve around the grieving widow and entrepreneur Karsh (Vincent Cassel) having invented Grave Tech, a technology business that allows family members to stream live video of their loved one’s corpse. One of the film’s subplots, Karsh’s attempts to expand his business into other countries, only hints at what would...

Take a look at writer/director David Cronenberg’s latest horror feature “The Shrouds”, starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt, releasing April 25, 2025 in theaters:

‘…‘Karsh’, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.

“Installed at his own controversial state-of-the-art cemetery, the device enables him and his clients to watch their departed loved ones decompose in real time.

“Karsh’s morbidly revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery, including that of his wife, are vandalized and nearly destroyed.

“While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, drives him to re-evaluate his business, marriage, and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, and pushes him to new beginnings…”

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Exclusive:Paris-based sales company Lucky Number has taken on international sales for Italian director Francesco Sossai’s debut feature The Last One For The Road, whichwill world premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes next month.

The Italy-Germany co-production is about two broke, bar-hopping fiftysomethings who meet a shy and aimless architecture student. Together, the three men embark on a chaotic road trip through the Venetian plains where bad advice, hangovers and unexpected friendship shake up the young man’s future plans for life and love.

The Last One For The Road is produced by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa for...

Exclusive: Italian sales firm Intramovies has boarded world sales rights excluding Israel and Poland on Or Sinai’s Mama, which was selected as a Cannes Special Screenings title in the Official Selection yesterday.

Mama is the only Israeli title in Official Selection at Cannes this year. The Hebrew- and Polish-language film follows Mila, a woman forced to temporarily leave her seaside mansion – and her secret romance – to return to her family in a remote Polish village. But the long-awaited reunion is far from what she imagined.

Adi Bar Yossef produces the film, which is a co-production between her Israeli company Baryo,...

Iranian filmmaker Ashgar Farhadi is readying his first film since 2021’s “A Hero,” and the cast sheet is a who’s who of French Cinema’s greatest talents.

Read More: ‘Luz’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Gets Lost In Flora Lau’s Video Game World [Sundance]

Variety reports that Farhadi’s “Parallel Tales” will star Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, and Adam Bessa.

Continue reading ‘Parallel Tales’: Asghar Farhadi’s Next Movie Stars Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Catherine Denevue & More at The Playlist.

Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman) has cast a who’s who of French stars for his next feature, Parallel Tales.

Gallic A-listers Isabelle Huppert (Elle), Virginie Efira (Benedetta), Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Pierre Niney (The Count of Monte-Cristo) are set to headline the French-language feature, alongside Adam Bessa, an up-and-comer nominated for a French César as best newcomer this year for his turn in Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail. The film will also feature a cameo from French film legend Catherine Deneuve.

Parallel Tales is set to begin shooting in Paris this fall, marking Farhadi’s first French feature since 2013’s The Past starring Tahar Rahim and Berenice Bejo. The film is being set up as a French-Italian-Belgian coproduction between Alexandre Mallet-Guy’s Memento Production, Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red, and André Logie’s Panache Productions and Gaëtan David’s La Compagnie Cinématographique. U.

While Asghar Farhadi’s first ventures working internationally with the French-set The Past, starring Bérénice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, and the Spanish-language drama Everybody Knows, starring Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, didn’t quite Iive up to the Iranian director’s finest works, he’s going to give it another go. Following his Cannes Grand Prix winner A Hero back in 2021, the director has announced his next feature, which will shoot in France and has amassed quite the ensemble.

Variety reports Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, and Adam Bessa will star in Parallel Tales, along with an “appearance” by Catherine Deneuve. With production set to begin in Paris this fall, a spring 2026 France release in the works, making it primed for a Cannes Film Festival debut next year.

While no plot details have been unveiled yet, one can expect another dramatically knotty, searing drama from the director,...

Megawatt quintet Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa (plus a bonus appearance by Catherine Deneuve) will populate Asghar Farhadi‘s “Parallel Tales,” — which sees the Iranian filmmaker return to Paris — the lieu of where he shot 2013’s “The Past.” Variety reports that filming on his tenth film will take place in the fall with the hopes of bringing this to Cannes in 2026. We don’t have a logline yet, but this should be full of mental gymnastics like his previous work. Look for this to be a top sales project (Charades and UTA Independent Film Group) on the Croisette next month.…...

Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has announced his next film, four years after winning the Cannes Grand Prix in 2021. The Oscar-winning director will helm “Parallel Tales,” also known as “Histoires Parallèles,” with Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Cassel starring. Farhadi is set to begin production in Paris in fall 2025, with a release in France planned for spring 2026.

“Parallel Tales,” which will be a French-language film, brings Farhadi back to France after he previously filmed 2013’s “The Past” there. The “Parallel Tales” cast marks the first collaboration between iconic French stars Huppert and Cassel, who will also be joined by Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Catherine Deneuve, and “Ghost Trail” breakout Adam Bessa. No other details on the plot are available at this time.

The film will be an official French-Italian-Belgian coproduction between Alexandre Mallet-Guy’s Memento Production in France, Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red in Italy, and André Logie’s Panache Productions...

Asghar Farhadi is set to direct the French-languageParallel Talesin Paris later this year, with a cast led byIsabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa.

Catherine Deneuve is also set to star.

The film is being produced by Alexandre Mallet-Guy’s Memento Production in France with Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red in Italy, and Andre Logie’s Panache Productions and Gaetan David’s La Compagnie Cinematographique in Belgium.

Anonymous Content will co-produce the film from the US.

Charades is handling international sales and will introduce the film to buyers at Cannes next month.Bessa was namedaScreenArab Star...

Asghar Farhadi has united a strong cast for his next feature Parallel Tales, with Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa all set to star.

Parallel Tales (French title: Histoires Parallèles) is scheduled to shoot on location in Paris this autumn, and is aiming for a theatrical release in France in spring 2026 via Memento Distribution. French icon Catherine Deneuve will also make an appearance in the film, which is produced by Alexandre Mallet-Guy with Farhadi and David Levine.

The plot has not yet been disclosed. French-language Parallel Tales is a co-production between Mallet-Guy’s Memento Production in France,...

Asghar Farhadi will shoot his next film Parallel Tales in Paris this coming fall, with Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa in the cast.

It is the Oscar-winning Iranian director’s first feature since A Hero, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2021.

Parallel Tales marks Farhadi’s second French-language film after The Past with Tahar Rahim and Berenice Bejo, who won Best Actress award for her performance at Cannes in 2013.

The feature will be produced by Alexandre Mallet-Guy alongside Farhadi and David Levine. Mallet-Guy has worked with Farhadi on all of his films starting with and since The Past, having originally connected with the director as the French distributor of his earlier titles including About Elly and A Separation.

The film is an official French-Italian-Belgian coproduction between Mallet-Guy’s Memento Production in France, Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red in Italy, and André Logie...

Twelve years after making his French-language directorial debut with “The Past,” two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is set to return to Paris for his next film, “Parallel Tales.”

The film, whose plot remains under wraps, brings together a powerful French cast, including Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”), Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”), Vincent Cassel (“Black Swan”), Pierre Niney (“The Count of Monte Cristo”) and Adam Bessa (“Ghost Trail”). Iconic French actor Catherine Deneuve will also make an appearance in the film.

Produced by long-time collaborator Alexandre Mallet-Guy alongside with Asghar Farhadi and David Levine, the prestige project will be launched by Charades and UTA Independent Film Group at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. Charades will handle international sales, while UTA Independent Film Group will rep U.S. rights. Farhadi is set to begin production on “Parallel Tales” in Paris this fall.

The Iranian director’s most recent film, “A Hero,” earned the Grand...

Brad Pitt Didn’t Just Star in Ocean’s Eleven ( Photo Credit – Prime Video )

When Ocean’s Eleven rolled the dice in 2001, it wasn’t just another glitzy heist movie. It was Brad Pitt’s masterclass in how to steal scenes without breaking a sweat. Sure, the cast was stacked with Hollywood royalty, Clooney, Roberts, Damon, but Pitt? He was the secret weapon. As Rusty Ryan, he didn’t just play second-in-command; he became the smooth-talking, snack-munching soul of the film. His effortless charm turned what could’ve been a one-off into a cultural reset for cool.

But Pitt wasn’t just there for the close-ups; he was instrumental behind the scenes too, helping shape the vibe, chemistry, and laid-back wit that made Ocean’s Eleven a genre-defining hit. It wasn’t just a reboot, it was a Brad Pitt blueprint. The kind of star power that makes a movie sparkle before the first line is even delivered.

The “Ready or Not” sequel starts production Monday, April 21 — that’s today — and Searchlight Pictures shares new details about the follow-up to the 2019 box office hit.

The sequel, titled “Ready or Not: Here I Come,” will film in Toronto this spring, with Radio Silence directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett returning for a second helping of the social survival horror comedy starring Samara Weaving.

Weaving reprises her role as Grace, who in the original film found herself being hunted by her new in-laws at her family’s posh estate. Joining Weaving and the previously announced Kathryn Newton are horror movie icons Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood in undisclosed roles. But there’s more: Shawn Hatosy (“The Pitt”), Néstor Carbonell (“The Dark Knight”), Kevin Durand, and David Cronenberg also join the ensemble.

Horror director Cronenberg recently wondered in conversation with the Los Angeles Times whether “The Shrouds,” his new film out now,...

David Cronenberg has given us classics such as Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, and more, but could The Shrouds be his final feature film? The 82-year-old director doesn’t seem willing to call it quits just yet, but he told the Los Angeles Times that he isn’t counting on getting behind the camera again.

“We all have some kind of arrogance,” Cronenberg said. “But I don’t have that much. The world does not need my next movie.” When asked if he would feel any grief if The Shrouds ends up being his last movie, Cronenberg said, “Well, yes and no. Even when I thought I might never make another movie, I never thought I’d stop being creative. I thought maybe I’d write another novel. There are many ways you can be creative.“

The director said he doesn’t lack ideas; he just questions whether he has the...

David Cronenberg‘s The Shrouds soundtrack is available on vinyl from Mutant in partnership with Howe Records.

The score is composed by Academy Award winner Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings), who has handled all but one of Cronenberg’s soundtracks since 1979.

The album is pressed on 140-gram Gravestone colored vinyl, limited to 500, and packaged in a jacket designed by Mutant co-founder Mo Shafeek. Priced at $35, it’s due out on June 27.

Mutant writes, “The Shrouds continues in the mold of Crimes of the Future, with a delicate but deceptive score. In a film about burial, decay, and the search for meaning—marred by conspiracy theories and an overreliance on technology—the film and score find a space that balances the ethereal and the dreadful. The sacred and profane.”

The Shrouds opens in New York and Los Angeles today and will expand nationwide on April 25 from Sideshow and Janus Films.

This week’s new releases include a Blumhouse horror movie that’s fresh out of theaters and now available at home, a vampire epic from Ryan Coogler in theaters, the latest from returning master David Cronenberg, and, quite fittingly, a Cronenberg-inspired body horror take on Cinderella that made headlines after someone vomited while watching it on the festival circuit.

Here’s all the new horror that released April 14– April 18, 2025!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

After being released in theaters less than a month ago, Blumhouse and Universal’s latest horror movie The Woman in the Yard is now available on Premium VOD at home.

You can rent the film for $19.99 or purchase it for $24.99.

Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax, Orphan, The Shallows, Carry-On) directed The Woman in the Yard from a script by first-time feature screenwriter Sam Stefanak.

Danielle Deadwyler stars as Ramona,...

David Cronenberg is back with his latest Cannes Film Festival premiere The Shrouds, a blend of body horror, grief, comedy, sex, high-tech graveyards and international intrigue starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger (in three roles), Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt. Sideshow/Janus Films is opening the film – the first English-language foray by the distributor of Drive My Car and Flow — at three theaters: NYC’s Angelika Film Center and Film at Lincoln Center, and Los Angeles’ AMC Grove.

Cronenberg will be in-person with screenings hosted by Brady Corbet and Richard Kelly, with the iconic director traveling to San Francisco and Chicago later in the week ahead of a move to 250-plus screens, Sideshow’s widest expansion this early in a film’s run.

The director of The Fly, Dead Ringers and Videodrome has “long been one of my favorite filmmakers. It’s his most personal film. I loved it when I...

The Shrouds — the newest vision from renowned filmmaker David Cronenberg — is an exercise in obsession, grief, loss, and death, all wrapped in a morbid shroud of mystery. Death — as with most Cronenberg — is at the center of this twisted tale of blended genres. Part conspiracy thriller, part character study and a dash of erotic drama, that’s the recipe here. It’s a mixture that — on paper — makes for a spectacular cinematic cocktail, but the finished product tastes just a bit… off.

The Shrouds plot

Karsh (Vincent Cassel) owns a high-tech cemetery. His wife, Becca (Diane Kruger), is buried there. Here, the graves are equipped with top-of-the-line technology that allows visitors to see the body of their buried loved one in real-time. When the cemetery is vandalized, Karsh and his ex-brother-in-law Maury (Guy Pearce) work desperately to find meaning behind the attack and identify the culprits.

The review

The film...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Sideshow and Janus Films release “The Shrouds” in select theaters on Friday, April 18, 2025.

Inspired by the loss of the director’s wife, “The Shrouds” is a grief story as only David Cronenberg would ever think to shoot one: Sardonic, unsentimental, and often so cadaverously stiff that the film itself appears to be suffering from rigor mortis, as if its images died at some point along their brief journey from the projector to the screen. And really, what else would you expect? I suppose it’s possible that the story’s deeply personal context might have spurred Cronenberg to push against the tender sterility of his recent features, or even dare to expose the soft underbelly that’s always been hiding inside his tumorous body of work and its many layers of scary-beautiful new flesh. If so, it...

Plot: A prominent businessman (Vincent Cassel), grieving over the death of his wife, invents a company called GraveTech, where corpses are wrapped in technologically enhanced burial shrouds that allow family members to monitor the decaying bodies of their loved ones in real-time.

Review: So, if you read the plot outline posted about, you likely muttered a little “wtf” to yourself once you got to the “monitor the decaying bodies of their loved ones” bit. But hey, The Shrouds is a David Cronenberg movie. Would you want to see one without any Wtf moments? I think not. Indeed, The Shrouds has enough ultra-weird imagery and kinky twists to make this Cronenberg’s edgiest movie since Crash and perhaps his most personal work to date.

Tragically, Cronenberg lost his wife several years ago, and The Shrouds seems autobiographical in the way it deals with grief. In it, Vincent Cassel plays Karsh, a...

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...

Death Be Not Shroud: Cronenberg Hits Dead Ends in Sluggish Mystery

The burial business serves as the battle ground for a complicated conundrum in David Cronenberg’s latest, The Shrouds, a glum examination marrying death and technology. Once again, Cronenberg’s central protagonist navigates a ruinous obsession with bodies, but this time the horror deals with the last stop on life’s night train. Vincent Cassel, who reunites with the director after a memorable supporting role in 2007’s Eastern Promises, is a man so preoccupied with his late wife’s body he’s developed a technology which allows loved ones to peek into the coffin indefinitely, to witness the decomposition of the body via a monitor built into headstones operated by apps on their cell phones.…...

The Shrouds.In defense of The Shrouds (2024), the new film by David Cronenberg, I propose a moratorium on our fixation with “the body” when considering one of the great filmmakers of the mind. My intention is neither to be perverse nor provocative, qualities The Shrouds offers in abundance; nor to minimize that its plot centers on a technology that allows the bereaved to observe in real time the rotting corpses of buried loved ones. Bodies⎯alive and dead, material and imagined, actual and virtual, whole and dismembered⎯are indeed a central problem in The Shrouds, as they were in Crimes of the Future (2022). But just as that film’s tale of an ecological dystopia where the human body sprouts organs of unknown purpose was fundamentally concerned with how we assign meaning to the body, The Shrouds is an extended meditation on images of the body, including the body of the film we’re watching.

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The Shrouds opens in theaters on April 18.

David Cronenberg’s films have often imagined a future where technology would find a way into our collective id. 55 years into the director’s incomparable career, might that future have finally caught up with him? In Cronenberg’s new film––the slick, scrambled The Shrouds––there are two barely speculative conceits: that an AI chatbot could be designed to look like a recently deceased loved one; and primarily, that a company might have the bright idea to wrap a blanket of HD cameras around our nearest and dearest before they’re sent six-feet-under, allowing us to check in on their decaying corpse, all with the click of an app.

If that sounds a little unambitious by the Canadian’s standards, Cronenberg––whose wife of 43 years, Carolyn, died in 2017 after a battle with cancer––has his reasons.

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.

Italian composer Paolo Buonvino delved deep into the musical heritage of his native Sicily to create the score for Netflix’s sumptuous “The Leopard” series, which has been steadily gaining global fans since dropping in March.

The high-end period piece, which marks the streamer’s biggest splash in Italy so far, is a modern take on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Set against the backdrop of social revolution in 1860s Sicily, it was famously adapted into a film by Luchino Visconti starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster. The film, now an Italian cinema classic, won the 1963 Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.

The series is lead-directed by Britain’s Tom Shankland and stars top model Deva Cassel — who is Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel’s daughter — as Angelica Sedara, the stunning middle-class woman who becomes a catalyst of social disruption and was played by Cardinale in the original.

“I’ve been coming to New York since the 1940s,” David Cronenberg reminisced when introducing The Shrouds at the New York Film Festival last fall. “Yes,” he quipped, “that means I’m the exact same age as Joe Biden.” Unlike the 46th president, however, the pioneer of body horror is showing no signs of losing a step.

Following the longest hiatus of his half-century career, Cronenberg has emerged with a mournful and masterful one-two punch in the 2020s. Deeply influenced by the passing of his wife, both Crimes of the Future and The Shrouds find the octogenarian mulling over mortality and corporeality in fascinating new lights. These late-period films are as stomach-churning as the early genre works that earned him the nickname “Baron of Blood” while also maintaining a firm footing in the human drama that defined his later work, like A Dangerous Method.

It’s not hard to see Cronenberg himself in The Shrouds,...

If you’re looking for new movies to stream, you’ve come to the right place. April brings a host of new films to streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Max, Prime Video, Disney+ and Paramount+, and we’ve whittled down the list of what’s new on each to the best of the best. That includes a buzzy A24 movie starring Nicole Kidman, an action film starring Viola Davis as the President of the United States, yet another action movie starring Tom Hardy from the director of “The Raid” and a film all about late ’90s nostalgia. Plus so much more.

Check out our picks for the best new movies streaming in April below.

“Banger” Netflix

Netflix – April 2

One of the most fun movies of 2025, “Banger” is the feature directorial debut of So Me, a French animator, graphic designer and filmmaker, who you probably know from his work with Ed Banger Records,...

Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky from a screenplay by Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin, and Andres Heinz, based on a story by Heinz. The film received five nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, with Portman winning Best Actress; it also received four nominations at the 68th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, with Portman winning Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) is a ballerina who is committed to playing the white swan. She soon lost her tenuous grip on reality and jumped into madness when her new rival, Lily (Mila Kunis), hopped into the scene.

Black Swan (2010) Movie Summary & Plot Synopsis: Nina’s Struggle for the Lead Role

Nina Sayers is a young talented ballet dancer who lives with her mother, Erica (Barbara Hershey). She works with New York City Ballet Company which decided...

There is an undeniable silliness in Netflix’s latest offering, “Banger” (2025). Starring Vincent Cassel and directed by the multifaceted French artist So-Me, the French crime comedy set in the world of DJs and drugs revels in that silliness. And no one celebrates the intended frivolity more than the film’s lead character, played by Cassel. It is primarily due to the enigmatic French actor’s energetically humorous turn that the film rises above its middlingly trope-laden plot to become something memorable.

Banger (2025) Netflix Movie Synopsis and Plot Summary:

Luis (Vincent Cassel), who likes to go by his DJ Name ‘Scorpex,’ is raging against the dying light shining on his deejaying career. He has not produced a noteworthy track in a long time. Refusing to hear the bell tolling for him, Luis hangs around concerts for brief opportunities to play a set. One such opportunity comes. Luis gets to play his...

Chances are you know So Me (née Bertrand Lagros de Langeron) even if you’ve never heard his name before.

As the graphic designer for French label Ed Banger Records, he’s created posters, T-shirts and album art for some of the most cutting-edge artists in France. He’s also directed videos for non-Ed Banger talent like Mgmt, Kid Cudi and Duck Sauce. The playful impishness that was present in his illustrative work is very much there in his music video work. It was a leap, for sure.

His latest leap is “Banger,” his feature directorial debut, which just debuted on Netflix worldwide.

In “Banger,” Vincent Cassel plays a middle-aged DJ named Scorpex, who is pulled into an undercover role by drug enforcement officers looking to bust a young DJ. It is drawn, in part, from a project that So Me spearheaded over the pandemic – “six short films that...

One could consider it funny how Vincent Cassel went from playing Marcus in Irreversible to a DJ named Scorpex in So-Me’s Banger, but maybe in another world we’d see angry Marcus grow up and vent out all his energy turning tables, eh? Banger is a comedy movie set in France that tells the story of a DJ turned secret agent. The story is a very basic spy adventure, but it’s honestly most lacking in terms of comedy. I think if you watched the movie without any expectations at all, you might enjoy it just a little bit. Remember when Zayn Malik made Bollywood movie-level music videos just for fun? Well, this movie feels like an extended cut of a music video like that. In the movie, Luis is a forgotten DJ who is just trying to stay relevant until he’s asked by the police to help...