Crimes of the Future
Directed by David Cronenberg
With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution. From TMDB
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60 of 223 · most liked firstHaving watched Crimes of the Future, all I'll say is I am very glad David Cronenberg got into film school and not ergonomic furniture engineering. Kristen Stewart is actually great in this as an intense, jittery fangirl. But good god, give Viggo Mortensen a throat lozenges, that's too much coughing
neutral · AI labelView post →Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg celebrates birthday, 3/15/1943. Absolute genius! Bangers: 70s Shivers, Rabid, BROOD 81 Scanners 83 Videodrome & Dead Zone 86 Fly 88 Dead Ringers 91 Naked Lunch 96 Crash 99 eXistenZ 05 History of Violence 07 Eastern Promises 22 Crimes of the Future #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Crimes of the Future is such a good movie if your tummy hurts and you want bar.
positive · AI labelView post →Japanese film poster for CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (2022 - Dir. David Cronenberg) Cast: Viggo Motensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching #filmsky Crimes Of The Future |1970 David Cronenberg |chronological |2.23 www.imdb.com/title/tt0065591 ·in a dystopic world where a plague is killing off pubescent human females, an esoteric researcher seeks his missing mentor while trying to retain morality in the sex-obsessed...·
neutral · AI labelView post →Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg celebrates birthday, 3/15/43. Absolute genius! Bangers: 70s Shivers, Rabid, Brood 81 Scanners 83 Videodrome & Dead Zone 86 Fly 88 Dead Ringers 91 Naked Lunch 96 Crash 99 eXistenZ 05 History of Violence 07 Eastern Promises 22 Crimes of the Future #filmsky 📽🎥🎬🎞
neutral · AI labelView post →Just found out that Cronenberg made a completely different movie in 1970 that is also called Crimes of the Future and it has absolutely nothing to do with the 2022 one. You can do anything you want!
neutral · AI labelView post →watching Crimes Of The Future as a comfort movie
positive · AI labelView post →tfw you’re the only one who shows up to halloween movie night in costume & your costume is Body Artist Saul Tenser of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (2022)
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyway, Crimes Of The Future! A small but rewarding movie, even more so cause of the details ( the art scene, the empty and decaying European city setting) like how it’s entirely possible Kristen Stewart’s character just deputized herself bathroom monitor and there’s no actual authority there
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching #filmsky Crimes Of The Future |2022 David Cronenberg |chronological |22.23 www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466 ·humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. with his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases...·
neutral · AI labelView post →Crimes of the Future (2022) hits different when you're introducing the film to a friend who's just had bottom surgery a few months ago. She loved it btw, her first intro to Cronenberg!
positive · AI labelView post →this movie rules btw. I think Videodrome and Crimes Of The Future are still my favorite Cronenbergs but this is such a different movie from either of them, I love it.
positive · AI labelView post →waking up after surgery (in my best viggo mortenson voice): hey doc thanks for the New Sex. You seem confused. So in David Cronenburg's 2022 film Crimes of the Future surgery is referred to as the New Sex, which is funny in this instance because of the new genitals you installed, which could also b
neutral · AI labelView post →David Cronenberg (with scenes from his 1970 film "Crimes of the Future") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Starting a new series on my Patreon where I watch David Cronenberg movies and then talk about the ideas I had while watching that David Cronenberg movie. Here's the first one, on Crimes of the Future (1970), available to subscribers at every tier www.patreon.com/posts/cronen...
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 📽️ CRIMES OF THE FUTURE - I’m all for Cronenberg’s return to cringe inducing body horror MY OLD ASS - a gem of a movie, made more poignant by Aubrey Plaza’s recent loss STAR WARS - my thoughts here boxd.it/9HJrTB PURSUIT OF THE GRAF SPEE - okay Archers film
positive · AI labelView post →"Crimes of the Future" is objectively the best movie title ever made, though.
positive · AI labelView post →Latest published was Fleischerei, which was inspired by Harris' Hannibal novels, Secretary (the short story by Mary Gaitskill rather than the film), ØXN's cover of "Farmer in the City", and Crimes of the Future (2022) #horrorwriterschat
neutral · AI labelView post →Crimes of the Future is really a remarkable movie
positive · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Successful movie day yesterday. Finally finished Crimes of the Future. Not my thing. The Phoenician Scheme was one of the funniest movies all year. Love Me had cute moments and occasional flashes of artistic insight. letterboxd.com/philphorever/
negative · AI labelView post →The original film titled Crimes of the Future, made in 1970, is just an hour of a dude walking around in brutalist architecture whispering and licking spray foam off people's toes.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is basically the plot of the the body horror movie "Crimes of the Future" where humans modify themselves to be able to eat the "new food" that is readily available, plastic waste. It is not meant to be hopeful. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/
neutral · AI labelView post →Skinamarink, BlackBerry, Infinity Pool, Crimes of the Future, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, Red Rooms, Castration Movie Anthology, In A Violent Nature, Universal Language, The Shrouds, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Mile End Kicks, Camp, Blue Heron
neutral · AI labelView post →Announcing a new monthly film club to discuss disability in horror. Contact darkhorrorfilm(at)http://gmail.com to sign up. Our first film will be Crimes of the Future (2022), directed by David Cronenberg. We’ll meet to discuss it on Monday January 5th 2026.
neutral · AI labelView post →So I just watched "Crimes Of The Future" (2022 Cronenberg) while idly scrolling Bluesky as I am wont to do... The combination of Trump's MAGA and the decisions of the Roberts Supreme Court, and Desantis' Concentration Camp and this movie have really done a number on my head. youtu.be/yrd8biRzhSo?...
neutral · AI labelView post →15 MOVIES TO GET TO KNOW MEEE in no particular order Snatch Dogma Dragonheart The Birdcage Creep/Creep 2 (DO NOT SEPARATE THEM!) The Green Knight Phantom of the Paradise The Menu The Stylist The Cat Returns Crimes of the Future Knives Out The Substance Army of Darkness Uhhh Every Saw Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie for my Season of Scares Horror Movie Watch-a-Thon and #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days is CRIMES OF THE FUTURE Meant to watch this one a while back but it slipped my mind. So tonight I make it right. 76/100 #HorrorSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Haven't done a post about a film in a while but watched the 2022 Crimes of the Future. Liked it quite a lot, even by Cronenberg standards it felt like a very deviant film.
positive · AI labelView post →Finally watched the new Crimes of the Future movie and it was 🔥🔥🔥
positive · AI labelView post →Next up, I'm completing a Cronenberg Trifecta over the last week or so. First I watched Brandon's INFINITY POOL (good wtf movie), last night I watched Caitlin's HUMANE (omg Veronica Mars's dad is evil), now it's onto David's CRIMES OF THE FUTURE.
neutral · AI labelView post →now to watch David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future. No not the one with Kristen Stewart. His first attempt which was his second overall film. 📽️ NW:
neutral · AI labelView post →Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Crimes of the Future for Tax Purposes.
unlabelledView post →Good movie! We are now caught up with the horror zeitgeist (until Teenage Sex and Death opens here on the 20th. Maybe we'll go see a movie for the first time since Crimes of the Future?)
positive · AI labelView post →Lil portrait study using a film still from Crimes of the Future.
neutral · AI labelView post →Showed someone Crimes of the Future for the first time and after a certain point she just excitedly exclaimed- "This movie is just sex!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Still thinking about the ear man from the film Crimes of the Future that I was watching last night
neutral · AI labelView post →CRIMES OF THE FUTURE is a much funnier movie when you realize it’s about christo and jeanne-claude
positive · AI labelView post →If feel like this is going to be divisive, even amongst Cronenbergheads, but I loved it. I specifically recommended this film to fans of Dead Ringers and Crimes Of The Future. 4/5
positive · AI labelView post →Drukhari would love the movie Crimes of the Future
neutral · AI labelView post →Went to a movie alcohol bar with a few journalists her for Tokyo Film Festival and got three drinks: -All About Lily Chou Chou -Crimes of the Future -Linda Linda Linda Good times, with great people!
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's scary movie - David Cronenberg's CRIMES OF THE FUTURE from 2022. A whimsical glimpse into the world of performance art. #Horror #Halloween
neutral · AI labelView post →or for another example, consider Crimes of the Future. the thesis of that movie is basically "the mutants will inherit the earth, baseline human biology is obsolete, and we should celebrate this because the alternative is death and stagnation" it's unsettling but it's extremely hopeful
positive · AI labelView post →Watched Cronenber's Crimes of the Future (the 2022 one) If the 1970's film was confusing and disturbing, this one was more explicit and disgusting, but less disturbing. That was VERY good! There are SO MANY parallels to pick from this one, from bodily autonomy to the evolution of bodies
positive · AI labelView post →My wife and I hyped ourselves up to see Crimes of the Future by reading Cannes reviews that were like “everyone was screaming and vomiting in the aisles. Several people died of fright. To witness this film disfigures the soul,” I think they might just get babies to write these things
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret Agent, Titane, Asteroid City, Happyend, Castration Movie, Crimes Of The Future, I Saw The TV Glow, Red Rooms, Nope, The Zone Of Interest, Memoria, etc
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve heard so many great reviews about the film ‘Crimes of the Future’. There must be something wrong with me because I don’t see it at all. I’ve had to turn it off after half an hour, and I had to push thru those minutes too. Such a shame when it’s Viggo.
negative · AI labelView post →82. Crimes of the Future is David Cronenberg's funniest film (excepting the possibility of a couple I haven't seen yet)
positive · AI labelView post →Observations from staying up til 2am playing more METROID PRIME 4: 1) Somebody at Retro Studios is clearly a fan of David Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, as evidenced by the surgery beds and tools pulled straight from that movie. I dig it.
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched even more Cronenberg last night, and why am I just now finding out that he's making body horror again? Crimes of the Future is full on weird for the whole runtime. A glorious return to form after the History of Violence through Maps to the Stars "normal movie" run.
positive · AI labelView post →NAKED LUNCH screens again tonight at 6:00 in a double feature with THE BROOD (8:30). Cronenberg Summer continues thru Thursday with EXISTENZ, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, and THE SHROUDS. brattlefilm.org/film-series/david-cronenberg/
neutral · AI labelView post →Body horror is a fun genera of movie because body horror is often sexual as it deals with our base functions as creatures. It's a subgenera that is often sexual as a fundamental element of the horrors of humanity. Movies like The Substance and Crimes of the Future both harness sexuality as horror-
neutral · AI labelView post →What are your four favorite movies of the decade so far? #filmsky 🎥🎬 Crimes of the Future (2022) ドライブ・マイ・カー | Drive my Car (2021) Mars Express (2023) 竜とそばかすの姫 | Belle (2021)
neutral · AI labelView post →the only film I know that made surgery look more erotic was Repo Men (2012) & outside the "shoving your arm and a device deep inside your partner's torso cavity after you just sliced them open" sex scene at the climax, that film was trash Crimes of the Future is the ideal version of that scene x10
positive · AI labelView post →Crimes of the Future by Cronenberg is one my favorite "science fiction body horror movies" by this director and in general; which had no cultural impact whatsoever, thus making this movie far more personal to the few that appreciate it.
positive · AI labelView post →Currently watching Crimes of the Future from David Cronenberg. Even by Cronenberg standards, this is a bizarre movie. I have a feeling that it is going to take multiple viewings to determine if I like it or not……just like most of his filmography.
neutral · AI labelView post →An interesting exception is when a filmmaker abandons their dream project because it no longer interests them And then circles back to it decades later when they’ve changed so much as people & the world has changed so that the film takes on a new meaning The Fablemans and Crimes of the Future
neutral · AI labelView post →Crimes of the Future is a 2022 science fiction body horror drama film written and directed by David Cronenberg.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tomorrow on the Anatomy of a Scream Pod Squad: @gaylydreadful.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social are back with a new Sexy & Surreal episode Cronenberg's film, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (2022).
neutral · AI labelView post →David Cronenberg's movie "Crimes of the Future" (2022) just had a profound effect on my brain chemistry, holy shit. There is absolutely a narrative about transness running through the whole thing, intentional or not.
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