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Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, creates a device to communicate with the dead inside a burial shroud.. Diane Kruger replaced Leia Seyda in her role.. Mentioned in the Film Junk podcast: Episode 961: In a Violent Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024). David Cronenberg’s latest cinematic offering, The Shroud, left me wondering one burning question: Did Elon Musk finance this as a two-hour Tesla commercial, or was it just a happy accident? 🤑In a plot that feels like a worn-out shroud in itself, Karsh, an innovative businessman (read: Tesla enthusiast) creates a device to communicate with the dead inside burial shrouds. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Cronenberg did all of this before (voyeurism, death obsession) – only much better, with fewer gadgets and more content. The film drifts through themes of grief, technology and, of course, the obligatory dystopian future with bad Russians/Chinese. All the while, you’re left wondering why all of this needed to exist in 2024, except as a reminder to take data security seriously. After all, The Shroud can only serve as a reminder of how much better Cronenberg’s early work was — or maybe just how much we all need a Tesla.
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