Crimes of the Future
5.6 /10 1 Votes
60% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Comedy, Sci-Fi Screenplay David Cronenberg Writer David Cronenberg Language English | 5.2/10 IMDb Director David Cronenberg Initial DVD release May 3, 2006 (Finland) Duration Country Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June, 1970 (Australia)
August 10, 1984 (USA) Cast Ronald Mlodzik (Adrian Tripod), Jon Lidolt , Tania Zolty , Jack Messinger , Paul Mulholland , William Haslam Similar movies Tomorrowland , The World's End , 2012 , Independence Day , This Is the End , Back to the Future | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Crimes of the Future is a 1970 Canadian science fiction film written, shot, edited, and directed by David Cronenberg.
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Like Cronenberg's previous feature, Stereo, Crimes was shot silent with a commentary added afterwards. The commentary is spoken by the character Adrian Tripod (Ronald Mlodzik). The film is set in 1997.
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Summary
Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Adrian Tripod (Ronald Mlodzik), sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population of sexually mature women.
Tripod joins a succession of organisations, including Metaphysical Import-Export and the Oceanic Podiatry Group, and meets various individuals and groups of men who are trying to adjust themselves to a defeminized world. One man parodies childbirth by continually growing new organs which are removed from his body. Eventually Tripod comes upon a group of paedophiles that is holding a 5-year-old girl, and they urge him to mate with her. He senses the presence of Antoine Rouge.
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Reception
Kim Newman, in his 1988 book Nightmare Movies, has described Crimes of the Future as being "more fun to read about in synopsis than to watch", and as proving, along with Stereo, that "it's possible to be boring and interesting at the same time".
The film has a score of 60% from five reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 5.8/10.
Crimes of the Future was released as a disc feature of The Criterion Collection's DVD and Blu-ray release of The Brood.
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