Based on the 1973 novel by J. G. Ballard, James and Catherine Ballard are a married couple whose sex life has been reduced to recounting tales of mutual infidelity to turn each other on. One night, James causes a head-on collision with a car carrying Dr. Helen Remington, killing her husband and severely injuring her and himself. Subsequent encounters with each other find that she is oddly sexually aroused by the danger of car accidents and potential accidents, and, he soon falls in with a cult of car-crash fetishists and invites his wife to join in with them. The group is led by Vaughan, a fo... rmer scientist twisted by his own disfigurement in an accident and, as a result, a man obsessed with car crashes as a liberation of sexual energy. Vaughan inducts the Ballards and Dr. Remington into his surreal world of sex in the back seats of cars, re-enactments of famous car crashes such as James Dean and Jayne Mansfield, viewing photos of accident victims, screenings of collision videos as a kind of pornography, and fender benders as mating rituals.
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Crash Fame, sex, death and car-crashes are cinema staples, but this disturbing thriller ties them together in a knot of erotic fetishism. David Cronenberg adapts JG Ballard's novel
Even by his high standards, the column inches dedicated to David Cronenberg's adapted tale of JG Ballard's tale of autophilia were notable. Agitation from the usual reactionary suspects came in response to the film's provocative deviance, led by television producer James Ballard (Spader) and his open marriage to Catherine (Unger). Their lives change when James is involved in a car accident, killing the driver of another vehicle. The dead man's wife, Helen Remington (Hunter) survives, like James, w...
Crashed and burned!
I rented this film as I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and after watching it, I don't understand at all.
James Spader plays a marketing executive who, after a horrific car accident, becomes obsessed with the erotic feeling aroused by car accidents. Throughout the film a number of contrived set pieces are played out where various characters use car crashes as sexual stimulants, leading to deadly consequences.
I have long been a fan of David Cronenberg but this film will test the patience of his most vocal supporter. Its indulgent, pointless and banal. The story and plot are non-existent and the actors wooden. Why a quality actress like Holly Hunter ever agreed to ...
Crash
"...Cronenberg is a master of creating and sustaining a mood of insinuating cool and dark allure..."
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