David Cronenberg's The Shrouds is a lumbering slog of a sci-fi psychodrama, weighted down in equal measure by its dull solemnity, emotional frigidity, and fundamental absurdity. Cronenberg's fifty-year career has long flirted with that fine line between the shocking and the ludicrous, especially in his early body-horror films in which his characters' physical bodies were merged with or violated by technologies. For the past 25 years he has attempted to steer further and further away from that body-horror legacy, focusing on more straightforward dramas and thrillers, which has resulted in some incredible films, notably Spider (2003), a deeply ... Read More