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Crash
Crash

6.4

Crash

NC-17·1996·100m

Summary

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.

Crew

Director, Writer

David Cronenberg

Novel

J.G. Ballard

Reviews

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talisencrw

May 11, 2016

9

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 sure must have been an interesting catch in his early dating years, for the adventurous women out there...

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$9,000,000.00

Revenue:

$2,671,855.00

Keywords

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
erotic
anti-social behaviour
romantic
symphoriphilia