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3. The Shrouds

The Shrouds may be far from David Cronenberg's best work as a filmmaker, but it is undeniably his most personal - a body horror drama centered around grief and the agony of what happens to a loved one's physical form once they depart the mortal plane.

Inspired by the death of Cronenberg's own wife of 43 years in 2017, The Shrouds revolves around the very Cronenberg-esque Karsh (Vincent Cassel), a man grieving the death of his wife Becca (Diane Kruger) and who has invented technology allowing people to view a livestream of their loved one's corpse as it decays.

It's an incredibly peculiar premise and yet a fascinating one with which Cronenberg explores his own grief and musings on death. 

It's messy and perhaps bizarre to a fault, but the performances from Cassel, Kruger, and Guy Pearce are quite brilliant, and it remains one of the most distinctive films that the legendary horror director has ever produced.

If this is indeed the last film that the 82-year-old filmmaker gives us, as he's suggested it very well may be, then it's a fittingly elegiac one to go out on.