Crash 4K Ultra HD
'Crash' Director: David Cronenberg (1996) Arrow 4K Ultra HD
Technology and sexuality meet in a head-on collision in this controversial adaptation of J.G. Ballard's hugely transgressive 1973 novel, starring James Spader and Holly Hunter.
After getting into a serious car accident, a film producer 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. Danger, sex and death become entwined as eroticism and technology join together in a disturbing, deadly union.
Special features:
- Audio commentary with film scholar Adrian Martin
- Interviews with crew
- Q&A's with Cronenberg, J.G. Ballard and Viggo Mortensen
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- Video essay on Cronenberg's use of architecture and location
- Crash! (1971, 18 mins)- short film originally broadcast as part of the BBC's Review series, starring J.G. Ballard and loosely adapted from his 1970 novel The Atrocity Exhibition
- Two short films inspired by Ballard and the novel Crash: Nightmare Angel (Zoe Beloff, 1986, 33 mins) and Always (crashing) (Simon Barker and Jason Wood, 2016, 14 mins)
- Two Cronenberg short films: The Nest (2013, 10 mins) and At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World (2007, 4 mins)
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork
