Disappointing to see a Cronenberg film that is so boring, lethargic, and meandering. The movie opens with great promise but the plot becomes very disjointed. It borders on being a soft core porn sexploitation flick with numerous unnecessary and borderline revolting sex scenes. Just when you think "ah ha! now it's going to get interesting", you get lulled back to sleep with boredom. Without any spoilers, the ending made feel I just wasted two hours of valuable life. Depressing, dull, and pointless film.

This movie is SO SO SO bad, the plot is unclear and its only full of talking, there are many times where you can’t tell what’s real and whats not and the ending is way too abrupt for the movie to make any sense at all. Dont watch this movie if you do NOT want to waste your time and money.

You've seen the cheap, soulless imitators like The Substance. Well, the master is here to show you how it's done. The Substance if you hate to think, The Shrouds if you love to be challenged. A brilliant masterpiece of a film and one of the best of the year.

Well acted, for the most part, with great dialogue. A great sci-fi concept exploring death, sorrow, paranoia, and obsession.

Great acting, but Hunny AI was cheesy.. as was the scene where Guy Pearce was talking to "Terry" through her phone's video camera.

Like all David Cronenberg's films this one was challenging. It's a movie you have to think about, and will be well after you watch it. Though not as visceral as others in his cannon, this one didn't really need it that much. It's a movie about loss and lack of that "body" in one's life after the ultimate resolution of "plot"=death. This one takes patience and presence of both mind and body.

I forgot what a low quality movie looked like until I watched this film. The character interactions are odd and unnatural. The movie relies on dialogue, failing to use film as it's media. Very flat, maybe this is what a movie looks like when it has been made by an 82-year old man.

First, I should let you know I am a Cronenberg fan. This film was embarrassingly bad. Some of the writing was so poor that it was almost comically sad. The narrative takes a potentially interesting idea and leads it to nowhere. Also ranks as one of the worst endings ever. Like much of it, it felt half written and half thought. Seriously, he could have run the script through AI more than once and created a better narrative.

This movie was AWFUL.....one of the worst I've ever wasted my time and money on. I recommend that NO ONE should watch this terrible representation of a movie

It feels like there’s not really any story and the ending is baffling.

Cronenberg still aims for the cinema of ideas, which are razor sharp in a film so dull and plodding you could crack your hip on it.

A haunting movie about grief

Intriguing mystery that unraveled in classic Cronenberg fashion. His signature body horror was there as well. Howard Shore still does his soundtracks. For Cronenberg fans, he never disappoints.

“The Shrouds” Karsh (Vincent Cassel) is a genius inventor and successful businessman inconsolable after the long-lingering death of his wife, Becca (Diane Kruger). He invents a video cloak that will allow the deceased’s survivors to watch their dearly departed’s remains decay – in real time - in “The Shrouds.” Since the death of his wife, film editor Carolyn Zeifman, in 2017, David Cronenberg has only directed two films, “Crimes of the Future (2022)” and his latest, both body horror films. (This is not a surprise since he is the master of body horror movies, like “Videodrome” in 1983 and “Dead Ringers (1988)”.) With “The Shrouds,” he is also dealing with dangers of high-technology, conspiracy theories and them pesky Russians and Chinese out to hack everything. Karsh’s macabre invention, designed for the voyeur in us, wraps the deceased in a shroud permeated with tiny x-ray cameras that allows the living to watch their beloved dead decay. He has no problem selling his funerary device to the very wealthy, creating an exclusive, wired cemetery for his clients, living and dead. Then, the cemetery is vandalized and graves destroyed. One of the desecrated graves was Becca’s and Karsh sets out to find and punish the perpetrators. This is obviously a very personal film for auteur Cronenberg and, like it or not, it is homage to his late spouse and centers on grief and how one copes with it. Here, Karsh throws his wealth at the problem and his company, GraveTech, produces and markets the voyeuristic hi-tech burial garment. I do not know what others will make of “The Shrouds” but I find the concept to be incredibly creepy and off-putting. In a way, I feel like the voyeur watching, from a distance, as the filmmaker bares his soul. This is not something I do by choice – well, actually, it is from choice – but it takes the viewer to a place that I prefer not to go. I would rather not indulge someone obsessed with death. Now, life, on the other hand…. C+

Another masterpiece in a career composed of them- Viva Cronenberg

At times horror gross though mostly intriguing story but unfortunately meanders and wonders off towards the end.

David Cronenberg Plays His Greatest Hits

A powerful and personal story of grief told in a unique and original way that only Cronenberg can bring to life.