Got grief? David Cronenberg has an app for that in ‘The Shrouds.'
We can expect a few constants from a David Cronenberg film.
The Canadian auteur's more-than-50-year run of cinematic inquests into the grotesque anxieties of being human has yielded several signatures — gallows humor and squelching body horrors among them — that have earned him his own adjective. His latest 'Cronenbergian' entry is 'The Shrouds,' a cerebral thriller that certainly fits the morbid, bone-cracking bill.
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