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Journal Article
The Shrouds
2025
Overview
Whereas The Brood is a classic of body horror (a genre of which Cronenberg has been rightfully credited as the founder), The Shrouds, if all you knew about it was that it is a noted horror auteur's deeply personal film about illness, loss, and the death of a loved one, you might think it would be a ghost story, or a tale of the undead. If one must pin down the genre, one might call The Shrouds \"an international technothriller art film.\" In some ways, The Shrouds embodies a very old debate between tradition and modernity or religion and atheism, enacted at multiple levels, not least in a seemingly throwaway bit of dialogue about the \"burial versus cremation\" debate: burial being necessary in the Jewish tradition, while cremation being seen as more ecological and modern. Cronenberg, wisely, does not presume to settle this debate, but simply records how it plays out on an emotional level-through a powerful depiction of grief, yes, but also of confusion and anger (at a medical establishment that robs us of our power, among other indignities).
