Crimes of the Future, a dreadfully delicious new film from David Cronenberg that just debuted on June 3, 2022, has blessed body-horror aficionados. Due to his distinctive technique to making horror movies, Ronenberg is referred to as “The King of Venereal Horror” or occasionally “The Baron of Blood.” Let’s discuss several films that are comparable to Crimes of the Future that you should watch if you liked it without giving too much more away as the film has only recently been released exclusively in theatres.
1. The Fly (1986)
Director- David Cronenberg
Research scientist Seth Brundle who works for Bartok Sciences. He has created “Telepods”. They are two-matter transmission pods that can transfer any thing through space from one “Telepod” to the other. But Seth doesn’t successfully teleport until he meets journalist Veronica Quaife, who motivates him to change the system. Seth utilises himself as a test subject for a matter transmission experiment. Hence, teleporting himself without realising his genes has combine with those of a house fly stuck in the telepod with him. However, something goes tragically wrong. As his modified genes start to take control, Seth now finds himself slowly transforming into the terrible mutant creature known as “Brundlefly”. Therefore, engaged in a bloody conflict.
2. Slither (2006)
Director- James Gunn
The tranquil South Carolina village of Wheelsy is struck by a burning meteorite as it crashes into the dense forest. A stealth extraterrestrial invasion begins when the burned rock reveals its hidden composition. A dreadful parasitic organism—and Grant, a local businessman in the town, is the unfortunate war’s unfortunate first casualty. Grant’s wife, Starla, begins to notice that something has been bothering him over the past few days. As an internal alteration gradually changes him into an extremely repulsive beast. No one is safe right now before the unstoppable alien invasion, and to make matters worse, Grant’s transformation is far from complete.
3. Raw (2016)
Director- Julia Ducournau
Justine enrols as a freshman at the prestigious Saint-Exupéry Veterinary School. She was raise as a strict vegetarian. Justine quickly enters a crazy new world of weird school customs and brutal initiation tests as soon as she leaves the family home, forcing her to reconsider her steadfast herbivorous convictions. A rare and equally morbid appetite for flesh will change Justine into a totally different entity as she delves deeper and deeper into a dark world of unexplored animalistic impulses.
4. Possessor (2020)
Director- Brandon Cronenberg
Tasya Vos is a corporate agent who inhabits the bodies of other individuals using technology known as brain implants, inspiring them to carry out murders for the organisation. Despite having a special talent for the job, she has undergone a significant transformation as a result of her experiences on these assignments, and she now fights to control her inclinations to use violence in her own life and in her recollections of it. She starts to lose control as her mental stress increases, and soon she is imprisoned in a man’s mind whose identity threatens to destroy her own.
5. Titane (2021)
Director- Julia Ducournau
Alexia has had a medical-grade titanium alloy implant firmly implanted to her skull ever since that terrible vehicle accident that almost took her life. However, almost ten years later, Alexia, now a secretly violent go-go dancer at underground auto events, has a fetishistic affinity for vehicles rather than being turn off by them as a result of her significant cranioplasty. The grieving father, fire chief Vincent, unexpectedly reunites with his long-lost son, Adrien, who has been gone for ten years, while a string of brutal murders terrorises the city. However, humans evolve through time.
6. The Cursed (2021)
Director- Sean Ellis
When cruel land baron Seamus Laurent massacres a Roma clan in the late nineteenth century, he casts a curse on his family and hamlet. The townspeople start having nightmares in the days that follow, and a child is found dead along with Seamus’s son Edward being missing. Locals believe a wild animal is to blame, but visiting pathologist John McBride warns of a more evil presence hiding in the woods.
7. Hatching (2022)
Director- Hanna Bergholm
Tinja, a 12-year-old gymnast, is caught between the hammer and the anvil because she is desperate to please her mother, a stout, image-obsess lifestyle YouTuber. But nothing is ever good enough, and Tinja works to improve her techniques as she progressively gives in to the crushing weight of expectations and perfection. As a result, an unexpected discovery in the woods turns out to be the silent forerunner of violence. The family’s carefully cultivated fantasy and mum’s manufactured picture-perfect reality are now in jeopardy due to the object in Tinja’s bedroom. And to think Tinja, with her wide eyes, would go to any lengths to win over her passive-aggressive mother.
8. You Won’t Be Alone (2022)
Director- Goran Stolevski
Macedonia in the nineteenth century. Nevena, a wild 16-year-old raise in exile and rob off her childhood, is force to pay for her mother’s transgressions. The helpless girl is force to accept her fate and transform after being release from her impregnable stony prison. Dark immortality slowly piques Nevena’s animalistic, wide-eyed curiosity as she travels the myth- and superstition-filled continent, gathering both rewarding and terrible experiences. But Nevena’s relentless, evil tormentor is always there.
Conclusion: I had a great time watching this movies similarly like ‘Crimes Of The Future‘ and I hope you all do too! Go see it, and as always thanks for reading 🙂
