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Oct 8, 2021 · With Crash, Canadian auteur David Cronenberg made a film that was radically uncompromising, even by his standards (Credit: Alamy) The root of its disturbing power
Crash. (1996 film) Crash is a 1996 Canadian drama film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg, based on J. G. Ballard 's 1973 novel of the same name. Starring James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette, it follows a film producer who, after surviving a car crash, becomes involved with a group ...
- Martin Barker, Jane Arthurs, Ramaswami Harindranath
- 2001
Aug 3, 2023 · David Cronenberg’s wildly provocative “Crash” casts James Spader as a film producer who becomes involved with a group of people who turn to car crashes in order to get sexually aroused.
- Zack Sharf
Controversial from the moment it premiered at Cannes—where it won a Special Jury Prize “for originality, for daring, and for audacity”—Crash has since taken its place as a key text of late-twentieth-century cinema, a disturbingly seductive treatise on the relationships between humanity and technology, sex and violence, that is as ...
- James Ballard
It remains one of the highest-grossing films ever made in Quebec, and was a hit everywhere from Italy to Brazil to Singapore.
Crash. David Cronenberg • Canada • 1996. 100 mins • HD • R18 sex scenes. Highly controversial on its original release, Cronenberg’s provocative satire about a group of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists remains as unsettling as it is mesmerising.
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Crash: Directed by David Cronenberg. With James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger. After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.