Featured Audience Ratings

• Austen R

  
  This, as well as Stereo, are interesting in concept and are executed well... but end up being simply boring. There's not much else to say except that these ideas just don't work so well on film. It'd be hard to make them work on any medium, actually. I do applaud… More
  This, as well as Stereo, are interesting in concept and are executed well... but end up being simply boring. There's not much else to say except that these ideas just don't work so well on film. It'd be hard to make them work on any medium, actually. I do applaud Cronenberg's creative approach, though. Both movies feature nice visuals, and are both intriguing up to a point. I will definitely revisit them later to see if my perspective has changed. Until then, I can't give each of them higher than a 65%.

• Eric B

  
  Despite more variety in sets and the upgrade to color, "Crimes of the Future" is actually harder to sit through than the preceding "Stereo." Like "Stereo," it's essentially a silent movie with added narration and sound effects, but the narration is… More
  Despite more variety in sets and the upgrade to color, "Crimes of the Future" is actually harder to sit through than the preceding "Stereo." Like "Stereo," it's essentially a silent movie with added narration and sound effects, but the narration is sparser so the action is even more difficult to follow. The scenario: A cosmetics-related disease has killed off most of the world's women. The afflicted secrete a strange white foam which others find arousing to taste and, well, things turn weird after that. The main character is stationed at a facility which treats victims of this "Rouge's Malady," but after all the patients die, he decides to work with feet instead. Wouldn't you? It's a good film for foot fetishists, particularly if webbed toes excite you. That must have been a fun casting call. And Ronald Mlodzik (returning from "Stereo") still has a fascinating face which looks more like an art student's sketch than the mere product of sperm and egg. There is some suggestive content involving a child which is a bit unsettling but, hey, we are talking about David Cronenberg here. It's interesting that "Down the Drain," "Stereo" and "Crimes of the Future" all take place in clinics of some sort. And droll, quirky names like Antoine Rouge, Adrian Tripod and the Oceanic Podiatry Group make me wonder if Cronenberg is a Thomas Pynchon fan.