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Crash

Country: USA, Language: English, 100 mins

  • Director: David Cronenberg
  • Writer: J.G. Ballard; David Cronenberg
  • Producer: Chris Auty; Andras Hamori

CGiii Comment

Suspend your own morals and beliefs when viewing this - the pleasure is in the pain.

The viewer is a spectator - nothing more - if you can relate to these people you may be a metaphor - seek help.

Cronenberg has abandoned realism - if you think this is real - seek help.

Thoroughly unenjoyable...but, [weirdly] interesting.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring, a former TV scientist has become obsessed by the marriage of motor-car technology with what he sees as the raw sexuality of car-crash victims. The scientist, along with a crash victim he has recently befriended, sets about performing a series of sexual acts in a variety of motor vehicles, either with other crash victims or with prostitutes whom they contort into the shape of trapped corpses. Ultimately, the scientist craves a suicidal union of blood, semen, and engine coolant, a union with which he becomes dangerously obsessed.

Cast & Characters

James Spader as James Ballard;
Holly Hunter as Helen Remington;
Elias Koteas as Vaughan;
Deborah Kara Unger as Catherine Ballard;
Rosanna Arquette as Gabrielle;
Peter MacNeill as Colin Seagrave;
Yolande Julian as Airport Hooker;
Cheryl Swarts as Vera Seagrave;
Judah Katz as Salesman;
Nicky Guadagni as Tattooist;
Ronn Sarosiak as A.D.;
Boyd Banks as Grip;
Markus Parilo as Man in Hanger;
Alice Poon as Camera Girl;
John Stoneham Jr. as Trask