Crash

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director (James Spader) discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

Canadian auteur David Cronenberg’s adaptation of the novel by J.G. Ballard explores the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger. Most motorists will slow down to stare at the scene of a collision, they may feel their pulses quickening and become aware of the fragility of their own bodies. The characters of Crash carry this awareness a step further, cherishing and nurturing it. For them, a car collision is a sexual turn-on, and a jolting life force they come to crave.

“A provocative anti-fable that is recommended to more than just the courageous, with sleek metallic imagery exuding a unique erotic tension, it’s as mindful and disturbing a ‘horror’ film as we’re likely to get.” ~AroVideo