Since launching in 2020, Cauldron Films has quickly established itself as a boutique label to watch for cult film fans. In addition to unearthing and restoring obscurities like The Crimes of the Black Cat, American Rickshaw, and Frankenstein ’80, they’ve secured a few heavy hitters. Their most recognizable title to date is Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (originally released in the US as The Gates of Hell). Following an exclusive slipcase edition last year, a standard retail version of the 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray set is available this week.
The 1980 Italian horror film is significant for kicking off Fulci’s thematically connected Gates of Hell trilogy, followed by The Beyond and The House by the Cemetery the next year. Developed in the wake of Fulci’s success with Zombie in 1979, City of the Living Dead features more undead ghouls but this time as accoutrements rather than a centerpiece.
The 1980 Italian horror film is significant for kicking off Fulci’s thematically connected Gates of Hell trilogy, followed by The Beyond and The House by the Cemetery the next year. Developed in the wake of Fulci’s success with Zombie in 1979, City of the Living Dead features more undead ghouls but this time as accoutrements rather than a centerpiece.
- 8/28/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
“Crimes of the Future” is the body horror movie heard ’round the world…literally.
David Cronenberg’s dystopian surgical drama premiered at Cannes to walkouts and a standing ovation, while actress Kristen Stewart revealed even she didn’t know what the film was about during production.
Officially, “Crimes” centers on two surgical performance artists, played by Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux, who publicly showcase the metamorphosis of human organs in avant-garde installations, while a National Organ Registry investigator (Stewart) observes them for insights on the next phase of human evolution.
Unofficially, “Crimes of the Future” is the movie that purred that “surgery is the new sex” and includes the jarring viral visual of Ear Man aka Klinek, an artist who dances while his eyes and mouth are sewn shut, leaving him left to rely on his 40+ ears to take in the world.
Real-life contemporary dancer Tassos Karahalios detailed his total...
David Cronenberg’s dystopian surgical drama premiered at Cannes to walkouts and a standing ovation, while actress Kristen Stewart revealed even she didn’t know what the film was about during production.
Officially, “Crimes” centers on two surgical performance artists, played by Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux, who publicly showcase the metamorphosis of human organs in avant-garde installations, while a National Organ Registry investigator (Stewart) observes them for insights on the next phase of human evolution.
Unofficially, “Crimes of the Future” is the movie that purred that “surgery is the new sex” and includes the jarring viral visual of Ear Man aka Klinek, an artist who dances while his eyes and mouth are sewn shut, leaving him left to rely on his 40+ ears to take in the world.
Real-life contemporary dancer Tassos Karahalios detailed his total...
- 6/6/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
After a Memorial Day weekend for the record books, Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” continued to bring in big business from positive word-of-mouth, and its second weekend might be even more impressive than its first.
The long-awaited sequel took in 25 million on Friday, which would be impressive for any movie, but is more so by the fact that it’s a second weekend Friday that doesn’t include previews. For a comparison, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” only made 17.1 million on its second Friday.
See‘Top Gun: Maverick’: Will this box office juggernaut bring Tom Cruise back to the Oscars after 23 years?
It was a great sign for “Maverick’s” second weekend, which ended up making an estimated 86 million, down just 32 from its opening weekend. For context, that was slightly more than the second weekend for “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which made 84.5 million its sophomore frame,...
The long-awaited sequel took in 25 million on Friday, which would be impressive for any movie, but is more so by the fact that it’s a second weekend Friday that doesn’t include previews. For a comparison, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” only made 17.1 million on its second Friday.
See‘Top Gun: Maverick’: Will this box office juggernaut bring Tom Cruise back to the Oscars after 23 years?
It was a great sign for “Maverick’s” second weekend, which ended up making an estimated 86 million, down just 32 from its opening weekend. For context, that was slightly more than the second weekend for “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which made 84.5 million its sophomore frame,...
- 6/5/2022
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
In David Cronenberg's "Crimes of the Future," Scott Speedman plays a man named Lang Dotrice, a calculating and mysterious character who spends the bulk of the film attempting to initiate contact with a pair of high-profile performance artists in order to donate raw materials to their act. "Crimes" takes place in a near future wherein humanity has carefully ridden themselves of physical pain, leading to a widespread popularity in "aesthetic surgery," performed live for entertainment's sake. Extracting exotic, new internal organs -- an equally mysterious and widespread medical phenomenon -- is the height of the art world, and...
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- 6/3/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
This review of “Crimes of the Future” was first published May 23, 2022, after its premiere at Cannes Film Festival.
It’s hard to say whether “Crimes of the Future” will be David Cronenberg’s final film — never believe a director who says they’re quitting — but it definitely feels like a closing argument, one that both reaffirms the filmmaker’s favorite themes and stylistic choices while also reflecting a shift in his point of view.
We’ve been here before with Cronenberg; his 1999 “Existenz” also had the feel of a greatest-hits collection. But for audiences starved for brash choices from one of the cinema’s boldest living provocateurs, even a rehash seems fresher than corporate-assembled, focus-group-approved content.
Should this be the Canadian auteur’s final feature, he won’t be leaving on a high note: “Crimes of the Future” won’t be remembered alongside masterpieces like “Dead Ringers,” “The Fly,” “The Brood,...
It’s hard to say whether “Crimes of the Future” will be David Cronenberg’s final film — never believe a director who says they’re quitting — but it definitely feels like a closing argument, one that both reaffirms the filmmaker’s favorite themes and stylistic choices while also reflecting a shift in his point of view.
We’ve been here before with Cronenberg; his 1999 “Existenz” also had the feel of a greatest-hits collection. But for audiences starved for brash choices from one of the cinema’s boldest living provocateurs, even a rehash seems fresher than corporate-assembled, focus-group-approved content.
Should this be the Canadian auteur’s final feature, he won’t be leaving on a high note: “Crimes of the Future” won’t be remembered alongside masterpieces like “Dead Ringers,” “The Fly,” “The Brood,...
- 6/3/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Notebook is covering the Cannes Film Festival with an ongoing correspondence between critics Leonardo Goi and Lawrence Garcia, and editor Daniel Kasman.The Fabric of the Human Body. Dear Danny and Lawrence,I’m a bit more ambivalent than you, Danny, about Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future. The film’s scope is immense, and for all the futuristic tech and patois, the issues it deals with strike me as timeless: humanity’s evolution and obsolescence, artistic creation, and ecological catastrophes. And yet, while its atmosphere cast a spectral and engulfing spell—with dark streets and dank interiors calling to mind, of all things, the locales of Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela—the characters’ penchant for long and lofty conversations around bodies did not quite live up to disquieting allure of scenes where material bodies took the stage—to be opened, played with, and pushed to new extremes. In a movie where,...
- 5/31/2022
- MUBI
In Crimes of the Future, an underground movement of performance artists try understanding a world in which humans grow new organs on a regular basis and pain, for some reason, has vanished. The director, of course, is David Cronenberg, back with his first film in eight years and just the second original screenplay he has developed since 1999’s eXistenZ. Since its announcement last year Crimes has been marketed as Cronenberg’s long-awaited return to body horror, a lubricious realm that he hasn’t fully embraced since… 1999’s Existenz. Miraculously, it delivers on that promise: a film of erotic surgery and designer organs; in which a live autopsy is performed on a young boy for a crowd of trendy onlookers; and in which the recently regal Kristen Stewart gives a performance so tweaked it might actually be the embodiment of edging.
Whether Cronenberg ever truly went away from this kind of cinema is subject to debate.
Whether Cronenberg ever truly went away from this kind of cinema is subject to debate.
- 5/26/2022
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
The 2022 Cannes Film Festival kicked off May 17 with some of the world’s biggest stars and revered filmmakers in attendance.
Opening night saw Julianne Moore, special Palme d’Or winner Forest Whitaker, and jurors Rebecca Hall, Deepika Padukone, Noomi Rapace, Asghar Farhadi, Ladj Ly, Jeff Nichols, and Joachim Trier, plus jury president Vincent Lindon, unveil “Final Cut,” the latest from Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius. As the Ukraine-Russia war continues, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made a special guest appearance remotely via live video call.
Wednesday’s buzziest event was the star-studded premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick,” as lead star, producer, and ultimate icon of “contemporary cinema” (according to Cannes festival director Thierry Fremaux) Tom Cruise graced the red carpet alongside Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly, Eva Longoria, Jerry Bruckheimer, Elle Fanning, and Kering’s Women in Cinema award winner Viola Davis.
“Three Thousand Years of Longing” co-stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton...
Opening night saw Julianne Moore, special Palme d’Or winner Forest Whitaker, and jurors Rebecca Hall, Deepika Padukone, Noomi Rapace, Asghar Farhadi, Ladj Ly, Jeff Nichols, and Joachim Trier, plus jury president Vincent Lindon, unveil “Final Cut,” the latest from Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius. As the Ukraine-Russia war continues, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made a special guest appearance remotely via live video call.
Wednesday’s buzziest event was the star-studded premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick,” as lead star, producer, and ultimate icon of “contemporary cinema” (according to Cannes festival director Thierry Fremaux) Tom Cruise graced the red carpet alongside Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly, Eva Longoria, Jerry Bruckheimer, Elle Fanning, and Kering’s Women in Cinema award winner Viola Davis.
“Three Thousand Years of Longing” co-stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton...
- 5/25/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
A bout of hysteria took over the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 when the competition jury, led by David Cronenberg, awarded a little film called “Rosetta” the Palme d’Or over Pedro Almodóvar’s emotional epic “All About My Mother.” The story — now recently resurfaced in the press — goes that Cronenberg and his peers, including André Téchiné, George Miller, Holly Hunter, and Jeff Goldblum, went out of their way to award another film over Almodóvar’s eventual Oscar winner.
But the truth is, “Rosetta” was the last film to play the festival that year, and so many journalists tipping their Palme predictions in the direction of Almodóvar didn’t actually see the Dardennes’ slice-of-life drama, throwing prognosticators’ Cannes crystal balls out of orbit.
Cronenberg himself previously debunked the made-up feud in a 2014 Vulture interview, noting that the final decision was unanimous. But during a Cannes 2022 conversation promoting Cronenberg’s new competition entry “Crimes of the Future,...
But the truth is, “Rosetta” was the last film to play the festival that year, and so many journalists tipping their Palme predictions in the direction of Almodóvar didn’t actually see the Dardennes’ slice-of-life drama, throwing prognosticators’ Cannes crystal balls out of orbit.
Cronenberg himself previously debunked the made-up feud in a 2014 Vulture interview, noting that the final decision was unanimous. But during a Cannes 2022 conversation promoting Cronenberg’s new competition entry “Crimes of the Future,...
- 5/25/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
In 2017, when the Cannes Film Festival celebrated its 70th anniversary, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” was a box-office smash, “Moonlight” won Best Picture, and Will Smith was a giddy member of the festival jury, watching everything from “Good Time” to “The Killing of a Sacred Deer.” Salma Hayek, host of the dinner party for that evening, hired a surprise mariachi band to storm the event as the Three Amigos goaded the room into one boisterous song after another.
Those were more innocent times. The festival’s 75th-anniversary ceremony and subsequent dinner took place two years after the festival’s Covid-era cancellation and the obliteration of theaters around the world. Hopes remain that “Top Gun: Maverick” can reignite moviegoing enthusiasm a week after its boisterous Cannes premiere, but within the celebratory atmosphere many actors and filmmakers expressed uncertainty about how much stability remained for their work.
This time, there were no mariachi bands.
Those were more innocent times. The festival’s 75th-anniversary ceremony and subsequent dinner took place two years after the festival’s Covid-era cancellation and the obliteration of theaters around the world. Hopes remain that “Top Gun: Maverick” can reignite moviegoing enthusiasm a week after its boisterous Cannes premiere, but within the celebratory atmosphere many actors and filmmakers expressed uncertainty about how much stability remained for their work.
This time, there were no mariachi bands.
- 5/25/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
There's no need to turn in your cinephile card if you haven't seen David Cronenberg's 1970 sci-fi horror film "Crimes of the Future." Most people haven't (myself included), much less even heard of it before they found out the director's next movie has the same title. The former is as bizarre and perturbing as you would expect a 52-year-old Cronenberg joint to be, too, taking place in a version of 1997 where a plague caused by cosmetic products has wiped out every sexually mature cis woman on the planet. Also, there are characters with foot fetishes and pedophiles. Yup,...
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- 5/10/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Crimes of the Future Trailer 2 — Neon has released the second movie trailer for Crimes of the Future (2022). View here the first Crimes of the Future trailer. Crew David Cronenberg‘s Crimes of the Future stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, and Tanaya Beatty. David Cronenberg wrote the screenplay for Crimes [...]
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- 5/7/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
In a move that suggests the golden age of true-crime content is also being established in Spain, Madrid-based Onza Distribution has pounced on worldwide rights outside the country to smash hit series “Crímenes” (“Crimes”), by Catalan journalist Carles Porta.
Broadcast since 2020 on Catalunya’s public broadcaster TV3 under the Catalan title of “Crims,” the true-crime series’ first two-seasons topped free-to-air TV primetime slots in the region, snagging peaks of 22 audience share.
Since January, adapted as “Crímenes” into Spanish language, it launched nationwide on leading paybox Movistar Plus’ premium channel #0 and its VOD service, also generating an enthusiastic audience response.
Onza Distribution is presenting “Crimes” to international buyers for the first time ever at MipTV, which runs April, 4-6 in Cannes.
With the combination of documentary material and the necessary fictional resources, “Crimes” recounts a series of criminal offenses extracted from recent real-life events in Spain.
It invites the viewer to...
Broadcast since 2020 on Catalunya’s public broadcaster TV3 under the Catalan title of “Crims,” the true-crime series’ first two-seasons topped free-to-air TV primetime slots in the region, snagging peaks of 22 audience share.
Since January, adapted as “Crímenes” into Spanish language, it launched nationwide on leading paybox Movistar Plus’ premium channel #0 and its VOD service, also generating an enthusiastic audience response.
Onza Distribution is presenting “Crimes” to international buyers for the first time ever at MipTV, which runs April, 4-6 in Cannes.
With the combination of documentary material and the necessary fictional resources, “Crimes” recounts a series of criminal offenses extracted from recent real-life events in Spain.
It invites the viewer to...
- 4/1/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Opa! The cameras are rolling in Athens, Greece, for the new David Cronenberg sci-fi thriller Crimes of the Future. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart and features Cronenberg’s first original screenplay since 1999’s eXistenZ. The Details of Crimes According to Variety, principal photography has begun for Cronenberg’s latest film, which looks to be a return to some of his earlier […]
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- 8/3/2021
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
Hello, everyone! We’ve got a bunch of new home media releases on tap today including a handful of classic films and some new genre offerings as well. Mvd is showing some love to The House on Sorority Row and Mortuary (1983) with Special Edition Blu-rays, and Cauldron Films is resurrecting The Crimes of the Black Cat and Beyond Terror in HD as well. As far as new horror goes, Arrow Films has put together a stellar home release for Threshold, Scream Factory is releasing Dark Spell on both formats, and if you haven't had a chance to check out A Nightmare Wakes yet, Rlje Films has you covered.
Other releases for July 6th include Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 4K, Doors, Medusa, Claw, Hell’s Bells, Scarecrow County and Sharks of the Corn.
Beyond Terror
Their Nightmare Was Further than Fear... It was Beyond Terror ! After a drug-fueled night of violence,...
Other releases for July 6th include Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 4K, Doors, Medusa, Claw, Hell’s Bells, Scarecrow County and Sharks of the Corn.
Beyond Terror
Their Nightmare Was Further than Fear... It was Beyond Terror ! After a drug-fueled night of violence,...
- 7/7/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Alyssa Milano has made no secret of her politics for some time: She’s a progressive who supports Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, pro-transgender rights, voting rights, the Era and gun control. She has used her Instagram account to express those views for years to her 3 million followers. Now, she may be preparing for a bigger stage.
Milano teased a run against U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock (R) last month to her millions of Twitter followers.
“Congressman McClintock was one of the 63 republicans to oppose Asian Hate Crimes bill,” Milano wrote on May 20. “This is my Congressman. Should I run against him?”
Congressman McClintock was one of the 63 republicans to oppose Asian Hate Crimes bill.
This is my Congressman.
Should I run against him?...
Milano teased a run against U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock (R) last month to her millions of Twitter followers.
“Congressman McClintock was one of the 63 republicans to oppose Asian Hate Crimes bill,” Milano wrote on May 20. “This is my Congressman. Should I run against him?”
Congressman McClintock was one of the 63 republicans to oppose Asian Hate Crimes bill.
This is my Congressman.
Should I run against him?...
- 6/9/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Yesterday, we got word that David Cronenberg was finally returning to filmmaking with the sci-fi thriller Crimes of the Future. Now we know more about the project, including the cast. Viggo Mortensen‘s involvement was expected, and now that’s been confirmed. In addition to Mortensen, the cast features Kristen Stewart and Léa Seydoux. As for the story, […]
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- 4/29/2021
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
We answer more of your letters, with topics this time ranging from bad posters to Muppets to our inability to spell.
We've delved deep into our bulging post bag to look at some more of our readers' correspondence. As usual, here's a broad cross-section of your thoughts, suggestions and other stuff, ranging from classic Italian giallo movies, Muppets questions, and lots more.
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Most people groan and roll their eyes when people talk about grammar and spelling but as I have to put up with the general mass bad grammar etc. that is Facebook and the internet en mass I expect better from pages such as yours.
We've delved deep into our bulging post bag to look at some more of our readers' correspondence. As usual, here's a broad cross-section of your thoughts, suggestions and other stuff, ranging from classic Italian giallo movies, Muppets questions, and lots more.
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You Can't Speel!
Most people groan and roll their eyes when people talk about grammar and spelling but as I have to put up with the general mass bad grammar etc. that is Facebook and the internet en mass I expect better from pages such as yours.
- 10/16/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Anthony Steffen, Sylvia Koscina starred in The Crimes of the Black Cat aka Seven Shawls of Yellow Silk Anthony Steffen Q&A Part II: Django Inspired Clint Eastwood What happened to Anthony Steffen’s career after the demise of the Spaghetti Western in the mid-’70s? Did he attempt to pursue other film genres or more "mainstream" work? Before the Spaghetti Westerns, the "sword and sandals" films were the real box-office hits. They would often use leftovers from every Hollywood biblical or historical spectacle, films such as Quo Vadis, Ben-Hur, Cleopatra, etc. Antonio appeared in Robert Aldrich’s Sodom and Gomorrah — and he didn’t have many good things to say about Stewart Granger. Anyway, when that genre faded, the Spaghetti Western took its place. Now, [...]...
- 4/15/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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