'The Shrouds': How Scary Is It — and Where Can You Watch It?
Don’t miss the chance to experience Cronenberg’s latest chilling masterpiece.
If you thought David Cronenberg had settled down, think again. The Canadian master of unsettling cinema is back with The Shrouds, a film that promises to unravel grief, love, and mortality in a way only Cronenberg can — through the cool lens of technology and the warm rot of human bodies.
Vincent Cassel stars as a man so obsessed with his late wife that he invents a device allowing him (and others) to literally watch corpses decompose. Yes, it’s as tender and grotesque as it sounds. The film premiered at Cannes in May 2024, leaving audiences whispering about its cold power — and already squirming for more.
How scary is The Shrouds, really?
Early festival goers say don’t expect a parade of jump scares. This is psychological horror, the sort that burrows under your skin and stays there. Cronenberg is all about the quiet dread — the realization that grief might warp us in ways we can’t undo, that love might become a laboratory experiment, that mourning might need a machine.
So it’s not scream-in-your-seat scary, but it is profoundly unnerving, haunting in that cold Cronenberg way that lingers long after the credits roll.
When and where can you watch it?
Right now, The Shrouds is set to release in cinemas across the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, and beyond in fall 2024 — most likely around October or November.
If curling up at home is more your style, you won’t have to wait too long. Expect it on streaming platforms like Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and Google Play by late 2024 or early 2025. Then, for the collectors and horror completists, Blu-ray and DVD editions should follow in early to mid-2025, probably with enough behind-the-scenes content to keep your morbid curiosity humming.
