David Cronenberg returns to sci-fi body horror with Crimes of the Future trailer

polygon.com:

It always sounded as if David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future would be a return to the veteran director’s preoccupation with body horror, transhumanism, and weird, organic sci-fi — and the film’s first trailer proves this very much to be the case.

Featuring strange, fleshy technologies, body parts sewn shut or relocated to unfamiliar places, and scenes that confuse sex with surgery — as well as what appears to be a shot of someone eating a waste paper basket — Crimes of the Future is very recognizable as the work of the man who made such unsettling explorations of the human-machine interface as Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Crash, and Existenz in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.

Crimes of the Future, which will be released in theaters in June, reunites Cronenberg with Viggo Mortensen, star of his much more grounded (but also excellent) ’00s crime thrillers A History of Violence and Eastern Promises. Mortensen plays a near-future performance artist who “publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs,” assisted by his partner (Léa Seydoux). Kristen Stewart plays an investigator from the National Organ Registry who looks into the couple, and uncovers a plan to use their fame to shed light on the next phase of human evolution. (You can get a very slightly better sense of this plot from the French version of the trailer below.)

In a statement, Cronenberg said, “Crimes of the Future is a meditation on human evolution. Specifically — the ways in which we have had to take control of the process because we have created such powerful environments that did not exist previously. [...] At this critical junction in human history, one wonders — can the human body evolve to solve problems we have created? Can the human body evolve a