
Since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring, a former TV scientist has become obsessed by the marriage of motor-car technology with what he sees as the raw sexuality of car-crash victims. The scientist, along with a crash victim he has recently befriended, sets about performing a series of sexual acts in a variety of motor vehicles, either with other crash victims or with prostitutes whom they contort into the shape of trapped corpses. Ultimately, t... (Full plot summary below)
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Since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring, a former TV scientist has become obsessed by the marriage of motor-car technology with what he sees as the raw sexuality of car-crash victims. The scientist, along with a crash victim he has recently befriended, sets about performing a series of sexual acts in a variety of motor vehicles, either with other crash victims or with prostitutes whom they contort into the shape of trapped corpses. Ultimately, the scientist craves a suicidal union of blood, semen, and engine coolant, a union with which he becomes dangerously obsessed.
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| EmpireKim NewmanHowever, as with Dead Ringers, Cronenberg approaches a touchy concept with a mixture of icy tact and cinematic daring, always informing the wilfully perverse material with a penetrating intelligence and (almost subliminally) very black wit. |
| USA TodayChristopher SharrettCrash seems incredibly prescient, yet rather naive. The film is a stunning document of our alienated civilization, all the more compelling with its dolorous, almost liturgical tones. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenYou may well hate Crash, but if intensity is what you seek in a darkened theatre, you'll hate missing it even more. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertCronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumCompared with the novel, the movie might seem predictable. But compared with other movies, it stands alone. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawCrash is still creepy, still menacing, still hypnotic, and it is still dedicated, in its freaky way, to the ideal of eroticism, to just drifting from erotic scene to erotic scene without much need for story. But Crash is no longer so contemporary. [4K re-release] |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannI'm not quite sure what David Cronenberg is trying to say in Crash, but whatever it is, he deserves a lot of credit for having the nerve to put it on screen and face the consequences. |
| SalonRobin DoughertyThe astonishing thing, however, is how pleasantly hypnotic the film is -- despite the fact that its subject is confined to peculiarly gruesome sex. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghAdapted from J.G. Ballard's cult novel, a dispassionate exegesis of warped desire, Cronenberg's movie is suitably cold, cold, cold: proof positive that movies about sex aren't always sexy movies, at least by conventional standards. |
| NewsweekJack KrollCrash has no plot to speak of. It's a cinematic tone poem of collisions and coitus. |