Last Updated on August 26, 2025 by FANGORIA Staff
Following a nationwide release via Sideshow and Janus Films earlier this year, FANGORIA is excited to reveal that David Cronenberg's The Shrouds will make its exclusive streaming debut on the Criterion Channel on July 8, along with a new interview with the body horror maestro as part of the channel's popular Meet the Filmmaker series, of which we're also debuting an exclusive clip today.
Starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt, The Shrouds was written shortly after the death of Cronenberg's wife Carolyn, and is described as a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants.
An official logline for The Shrouds reads as follows:
Karsh (Cassel) is the enigmatic entrepreneur behind a new tech package that allows bereaved relatives to view their loved ones’ decomposing remains. When his futuristic cemetery is vandalized, he begins to suspect a conspiracy is at work, forcing him to confront the trauma of—and mystery surrounding—the death of his beloved Becca (Kruger). Conceived in the wake of his own wife’s death, The Shrouds finds Cronenberg exploring heady ideas around sex, surveillance, and the ultimate body horror: the physical decay that awaits us all.
In Criterion's new interview with Cronenberg, the legendary director speaks about his love for science-fiction and his introduction to genre filmmaking, sparking a career that changed the game of horror alone with films like The Brood, Scanners and The Fly.
The Shrouds and the full Meet the Filmmaker interview will be available to stream on Criterion Channel starting July 8, the same day it becomes available for TVOD rentals on Apple TV, Prime Video, and Fandango at Home. A home-video release will follow this October. Watch our exclusive Cronenberg interview clip below:
