Panic Fest 2025: David Cronenberg's The Shrouds might just exist for David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg is one of the rare directors who manages to make the classic and anonymous shot of a car arriving at a certain place personal and fascinating. A substantially useless connection that in Italian cinema, for example, often becomes a pain in the neck. Instead, in The Shrouds, the unique fifteen-twenty-second shot of a car (here a much loved Tesla, rather than a scandal) that slowly arrives in a place, Cronenberg knows how to cloak …

‘We Mess With Actors’ Voices All the Time’: David Cronenberg Claps Back at Oscars AI Controversy

Famed director David Cronenberg weighed in on the controversy surrounding the use of AI in the Oscar-nominated film “The Brutalist.” He made these remarks during a wide-ranging conversation with longtime collaborator and composer Howard Shore, as well as Jon Burlingame, last month at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Not only does Cronenberg think the AI “scandal” was overblown, he also speculated if it may have been part of a smear campaign in…

Panic Fest 2025: David Cronenberg's The Shrouds might just exist for David Cronenberg

The Panic Fest horror/genre film festival is currently running in KC for its 2025 season at Screenland Armour. These film reviews are from indie and studio horror/comedy/sci-fi features premiering right now in the Northland, or hitting major theaters/VOD soon. Catch up with all our coverage here and there’s still time to get tickets for individual screenings at the Panic Fest 2025 website. Contemporary cinema’s other great David, David Lynch, de…