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  • 1984
  • Not Rated
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 3 m
  • 1984
  • Not Rated
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 3 m
Crimes of the Future

Summary Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod (Ronald Mlodzik), sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population...

Directed By: David Cronenberg

Written By: David Cronenberg

  • 1984
  • Not Rated
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 3 m
  • 1984
  • Not Rated
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 3 m

Crimes of the Future

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Summary Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod (Ronald Mlodzik), sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population...

Directed By: David Cronenberg

Written By: David Cronenberg

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The humour couldn't be blacker, and the quality of invention is outrageously high.
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Gradually, Crimes of the Future becomes a surprisingly thorough and anticipatory working draft of the prototypical Cronenberg body-horror film, dramatizing, with characteristically repulsed fascination, a series of biological mutations that usher in a micro-culture given to cannibalism, pedophilia, and other practices that indicate a looming erasure of personal identity.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
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Fans of innovative Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg will recognize the emergence of his unique voice in this 1970 project, the director's second feature (following the 1969 Stereo).
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Crimes of the Future sounds a whole lot more fascinating than it actually is: it’s a more interesting film to read/write about than to watch, which just goes to show how Cronenberg at this early stage was still closer to a kind of literary, idea-based storytelling, and had not yet mastered the filmmaking side of the equation.
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Cronenberg’s obsession for such matters as bodily mutation and grotesque growths, aberrant medical experiments, massive plagues and futuristic architecture are all here in a convoluted look at a future gone perverse.
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All of Cronenberg’s personal obsessions—the distortion of the body, the grotesquerie of sex—are on display, though the treatment is a bit sophomoric. A curiosity item for hard-core Cronenberg fans.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Emergent Films Ltd.
Release Date Aug 10, 1984
Duration 1 h 3 m
Rating Not Rated
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