The Shroud

A tech magnate who lost his wife develops a high-tech burial shroud that allows the decomposition of the deceased to be monitored. But soon, he begins to suspect that Chinese intelligence agencies and Russian hackers are after the shrouds — after all, what better way to surveil people than by embedding equipment in the graves of their loved ones?

The new film from David Cronenberg — the widely acknowledged master and founding father of the body horror genre (a term you’ll never forget if you’ve seen The Stuff, though that film is by another director). In The Shroud, Cronenberg doesn’t lean heavily into horror, but instead offers a thoughtful meditation on death and burial customs, shaped by his own experience of widowhood.