David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds now has an official U.S. release date. Although Cronenberg got his start in the horror genre with movies including Shivers, Rabid, Videodrome, and The Fly, he took a break from helming horror features after 1999’s eXistenZ. After helming projects such as Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method, and Maps to the Stars, he eventually surged back with the visceral 2022 body horror outing Crimes of the Future. The upcoming The Shrouds, which stars Vincent Cᴀssel as a bereaved man who invents technology to track the decomposition of loved ones, sees the director continuing his genre Renaissance.
Per ᴅᴇᴀᴅline, The Shrouds has now been given an official release date. Sideshow and Janus Films will debut the movie in Los Angeles and New York City on April 18, followed by a wide expansion in the United States on April 25. This will precede the movie’s previously announced French theatrical release, which is being shepherded by Pyramide Distribution and will kick off on April 30.
What This Means For The Shrouds
It Faces Major Compeтιтion
This April release date for The Shrouds sees the Cronenberg movie facing a lot of compeтιтion from other April horror тιтles. The genre offerings that month will kick off with the Christopher Landon thriller Drop on April 11, followed by a triple-header of the Finn Wolfhard slasher Hell of a Summer, the supernatural Ryan Coogler movie Sinners, and the exorcism movie The Ritual on April 18. This will be capped off by the release of the upcoming Until Dawn adaptation on April 25, the same day that The Shrouds goes wide.
The Ritual stars Al Pacino and Dan Stevens as a pair of troubled priests.
Although it seems unlikely that the grief-fueled body horror movie will outpace the video game adaptation at the box office, David Cronenberg could still have a solid success on his hands. Early The Shrouds reviews coming out of its Cannes premiere in May 2024 and its subsequent screening at the Toronto International Film Festival in September have seen the movie earn a solidly Fresh score of 73% on Rotten Tomatoes, which could spell good news for its theatrical prospects.
Our Take On The Shrouds Release Date
Precedent Shows That It Could Connect With Audiences
Another factor that could work in the favor of The Shrouds is the fact that Spring 2024 saw a huge independent horror hit when the Australian found footage horror movie Late Night with the Devil made a splash by earning the best debut ever for an IFC Films release, eventually grossing $15.5 million worldwide. The David Cronenberg movie could potentially follow in its footsteps, serving an audience hungry for cerebral horror ahead of the summer movie season.
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