Polygon.com / 29.04.25

David Cronenberg's movie conspiracies never lead anywhere and that's the point

The Shrouds, the latest movie from horror legend David Cronenberg, certainly asks more questions than it answers. At the heart of it, funerary-tech entrepreneur Karsh (Vincent Cassel) is dealing with some sort of conspiracy  hes just not sure what.  See, Karsh is a widower whos not quite ready to let his dearly departed wife go in that shes buried in his futuristic cemetery right next to where hes dining with his blind date. Karsh owns GraveTech, a company that allows mourners to monitor dead loved ones in their graves, watching over them as they go quietly into that gentle decay. But thanks to the high-resolution 4K cameras his state-of-the-art burial shrouds provide, hes noticed strange, microscopic growths on his wifes bones.  Their appearance prompts him to hunt down exactly what is happening with his wifes body are the growths a byproduct of the device shes buried in? A latent effect of her experimental cancer treatments? A secret third thing? And does it have anything to do wi...
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