Screening time:
Saturday, June 7, 8:30 PM

David Cronenberg | Canada | 1970 | 68m

Crimes of the Future will be preceded by Cronenberg's 14-minute short From The Drain (1967).

Widely known as a principle originator of the body horror genre, Canadian director David Cronenberg has disturbed and delighted audiences with his uncanny knack for exploring (and exploiting) our most unsettling fears over a six-decade career. In June we screen some of his earliest works with our Saturday night series: Late Nights, Early Cronenberg!

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 society he lives in.

"Crimes of the Future is such a small, defiantly offbeat production for such a niche audience that I cannot imagine what meager percentage of Canadian citizens in 1970 would have even heard of it." - Tim Brayton, Alternate Ending

"What makes it so essential is seeing how Cronenberg was playing with ideas that he would more thoroughly excavate in later films. It is a prime example of seeing how, even when working with a shoestring budget, filmmakers begin to construct a blueprint for what they’re interested in thematically and tonally." - Chase Hutchinson, Collider

"One of David Cronenberg’s introductory experiments in narrative filmmaking, another early stage in the germination of a brilliant, deviant artistic mind." - Aren Bergstrom, 3 Brothers Film

Tickets $12 ($11.40 cash at the door if available). Prices include HST and online booking fees where applicable.