We’ve just heard that David Cronenberg’s controversial 1996 movie Crash is returning to cinemas in a stunning new 4K restoration later in the year. The film will return to screens through Arrow Films in select cinemas from 6th November. The film is led by James Spader and Holly Hunter and is the adaptation of writer J.G. Ballard’s hugely transgressive 1973 novel. The film was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival for originality, daring and audacity.
James Ballard is an advertising executive whose deviant sexual desires are awakened by a near fatal automobile accident with Dr Helen Remington. Soon the pair, alongside Ballard’s wife Catherine, are drawn into an underground world of car crash fetishism presided over by renegade scientist Vaughan. Danger, sex and death become entwined as eroticism and technology join together in a disturbing, deadly union.
Check out the original trailer for the film below.
