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‘The Shrouds’ Trailer: David Cronenberg Reckons With Mortality in a Gravedigging Tech Conspiracy Thriller


David Cronenberg's new feature 'The Shrouds,' starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce, has debuted its first trailer.

Dead bingers are at the center of David Cronenberg ‘s new thriller “ The Shrouds,” now prepping to launch in North America after debuting at the Cannes Film Festival last summer. The story follows a tech innovator who is marketing a software that allows clients to watch a feed of their deceased loved ones decomposing in real time. A vandalism attack on his graves, including that of his late wife, unthreads a peculiar, potentially geopolitical conspiracy that draws in his spouse’s sister (Kruger), her ex-husband (Pearce) and his international business affairs.

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