119 minutes – Horror
Language: English
Festival release date: May 20, 2024 – 77th Cannes Film Festival
Norther American Premiere: September 5, 2024 – TIFF
Release date: January 22, 2025
Production companies: Prospero Pictures, SBS Productions
Canadian distributor: Sphere Films
Distributor: FilmNation Entertainment
In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel plays a man named Karsh, a 50-year-old prominent businessman. Inconsolable after the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One
night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.
Content warning: scenes of surgery, mature themes, sexual content, nudity, coarse language.
Principal photography began in Toronto on March 8, 2023. The Shrouds is a Canada-France coproduction. It was selected to have a Gala presentation for its North American premiere at TIFF 2024.
Saïd Ben Saïd
Martin Katz
Michel Merkt
Douglas Koch
Christopher Donaldson
Vincent Cassel
Diane Kruger
Guy Pearce
Sandrine Holt
Elizabeth Saunders
Jennifer Dale
Eric Weinthal
Steve Switzman
Jeff Yung
Karsh
Becca / Terry / Hunny
Maury
Soo-Min Szabo
Gray Foner
Myrna Slotnik
Dr. Hofstra
Dr. Jerry Eckler
Dr. Rory Zhao
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