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Crimes Of | The Future(1970)

Our guide through this bizarre landscape is , the director of a dermatological clinic called the "House of Skin". As he searches for his disappeared mentor, Antoine Rouge, Tripod encounters a series of increasingly grotesque biological adaptations:

Decades before Viggo Mortensen declared that "surgery is the new sex," a young David Cronenberg was already dissecting the human form in his 1970 experimental feature, . While it shares a title with his 2022 film, the two are not remakes; rather, the 1970 version is a surreal, 63-minute arthouse trip that laid the foundational "biological horror" for which he became famous. The World Without Women Crimes of the Future(1970)

Before the Gore: Revisiting David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (1970) Our guide through this bizarre landscape is ,

: A mysterious, compulsive foam excreted by the sick that others feel compelled to ingest . An Austere Aesthetic The World Without Women Before the Gore: Revisiting

Unlike his later visceral spectacles, the 1970 Crimes is austere and detached . Shot silently with a monotonous retroactive narration , the film feels more like a clinical report or an anthropological study than a traditional narrative. The setting—cold, concrete modernist buildings—underscores the emotional sterility of this future. Why It Matters Crimes of the Future (1970) | Alex on Film