This is Crimes of the Future , the disturbing new film from the master of body horror

David Cronenberg is back. The filmmaker behind movies like the shocking The Fly has returned to the genre that made him known around the world, body horror. His new movie is called Grimes of the Future, and it looks every bit as disturbing as we’d expect in its first sneak peek.

According to the premise of Crimes of the Future, “as the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations.” The film bears the same name as the second film directed and written by Cronenberg in 1970, but it is not a remake. According to Viggo Mortensen, the film’s protagonist, it is a story that Cronenberg wrote a long time ago, but had never been able to do.

In addition to The Fly, Cronenberg also made such films as 1975’s Shivers, 1981’s Scanners, and 1999’s Existenz, among many others. Outside of horror and body horror, Cronenberg worked alongside Mortensen on such films as A History of Violence, A Dangerous Method, and Eastern Promises.

Crimes of the Future, which opens in June, also stars Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, who we can see in the disturbing preview. As an additional fact, in 2020 Brandon Cronenberg, son of David Cronenberg, premiered the fascinating and grotesque Possessor, a science fiction and psychological horror film with elements of body horror, so it seems like father, like son.