Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the new release “The Shrouds,” a psychological thriller/horror film by the legendary auteur David Cronenberg, dealing with themes of loss, mourning and redemption. In select theaters on April 25th, see local listings.

The angular Vincent Cassel is Karsh, a bereaved widower who is also a tech financier. In memoriam to his wife Becca, Karsh has built a new style of memorial called GraveTech, in which the bodies of the deceased are enmeshed in a digital shroud, which uses it’s camera chips to project an image of the decaying corpse on a screen embedded in the gravestone. This morbid technique gets some interest for other uses by the Chinese and the Russians, as well as Karsh’s tech expert Maury (Guy Pearce). It is vandalism at his wife’s graveyard tips the scale of The Shrouds capabilities.

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