Shocking. Powerful. Scandalous. Provocative. Erotic. Brilliant.
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins to use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
- 6.5
- 1996
- Released
- 1h 40m
James Spader
James Ballard
Holly Hunter
Helen Remington
Elias Koteas
Vaughan
Deborah Kara Unger
Catherine Ballard
Rosanna Arquette
Gabrielle
Peter MacNeill
Colin Seagrave
Cheryl Swarts
Vera SeagraveYolande Julian
Airport Hooker
Nicky Guadagni
Tattooist
Ronn Sarosiak
A.D.
Boyd Banks
Grip
Judah Katz
Salesman
Markus Parilo
Man in HangerAlice Poon
Camera Girl
Released
en
$9,000,000.00
$2,671,855.00
- #dying and death
- #adultery
- #husband wife relationship
- #based on novel or book
- #sexual obsession
- #pain
- #sadism
- #sexuality
- #obsession
- #fetish
- #eroticism
- #car journey
- #fetishism
- #wound
- #masochism
- #deceived husband
- #cult
- #hospital
- #car accident
- #car wreck
- #anti-social behaviour
- #romantic
- #symphoriphilia
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I don't have a whole lot of experience with David Cronenberg's films and this is the first of his I've watched in a long time. Pretty obvious with the symbolism he was after but this isn't something I particularly engaged with despite the committed performances from the cast, although Elias Koteas was creepy good. No real plot with this one and by the end, while a unique movie for sure, not really
One thing has to be said in my fellow Canadian David Cronenberg's favour--At least for the first 25-or-so years of his filmmaking career, he has always been one of the most surprising and brilliant minds of 'body-related horror', and from every conceivable angle. What other mind--out of 7 billion possibilities--could have come up with this, the combining of erotic pleasure with car crashing? He su