Crimes of the Future (1970)

Directed by

David Cronenberg

Genre

comedy film, horror film, independent film, science fiction film, experimental film, post-apocalyptic film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 118 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A dermatologist named Adrian Tripod searches for a missing colleague in a post-apocalyptic world. He encounters strange diseases and unsettling experiments along the way.

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What happens

Crimes of the Future is a 1970 Canadian science fiction film written, shot, edited and directed by David Cronenberg. Like Cronenberg's previous feature, Stereo, Crimes of the Future was shot silent with a commentary added afterwards, spoken by the character Adrian Tripod (Ronald Mlodzik). Although the film shares its title with Cronenberg's 2022 film of the same name, the latter is not a remake as the story and concept are unrelated; however, there is a loose connection between the two films, as the main premise of the 2022 film, "creative cancer" also appears in the 1970 version. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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