Blu-ray, DVD Release: The Shrouds

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 21, 2025
Price: Blu-ray $20.99, DVD $17.49
Studio: Criterion Premieres

Long fascinated by the ways that technology is transforming our bodies and minds, the great David Cronenberg (Scanners,  Videodrome, Naked Lunch) returns with 2024’s The Shrouds, one of his most profoundly personal films, an audacious, elegiac exploration of grief, mortality, and love wrapped in the guise of a corporate-espionage thriller.

Karsh (Vincent Cassel, Black Swan) 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 (Diane Kruger, The 355).

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.

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Meet the Filmmakers: David Cronenberg, a Criterion Channel original interview
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Notes by critic Beatrice Loayza
Buy or Rent The Shrouds

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.