20 Underrated Recent Movies You Might Have Missed
1. The Shrouds
Though we likely all think we know what a David Cronenberg movie looks like after all these years, the legendary filmmaker utterly confounded expectations with his newest film The Shrouds.
While absolutely a body horror film in its own way, this morbid drama about a grieving man (Vincent Cassel) inventing a technology allowing him to view his late wife's decaying corpse in real time is the realest, most personal film Cronenberg has ever made.
Inspired by the 2017 death of Cronenberg's own wife of 43 years, Carolyn Zeifman, The Shrouds is basically art-as-therapy for its illustrious filmmaker, ensuring that this is a more tender and at times upsetting film than just about anything he's produced before.
As such it's somewhat less gratuitous than some of Cronenberg's most-cherished body horror films, but manages to find unexpected beauty in the very idea of decay itself, aided by top-notch performances from Cassel and Diane Kruger.