Crimes of the Future(2022)
2022 · David Cronenberg · 107 min
With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Science Fiction · Horror · Thriller
6.01.3k votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
4/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How Crimes of the Future scares
Crimes of the Future crawls at a deliberate, dreamlike pace, more interested in unsettling you than startling you. There are no jump scares here — instead it's a slow, clinical unease that builds from watching bodies change, get cut open, and be treated like art or evidence. The horror is quiet and cerebral, but the images themselves are graphic and hard to unsee, so it sits somewhere between fascinating and stomach-turning. This is for viewers who like strange, thoughtful horror and don't mind sitting with discomfort rather than being jolted by it.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Crimes of the Future rates psychological 4/5, visceral 3/5, gore 4/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 4 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 10 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 95 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 75 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow, cerebral crawl of quiet unease with occasional unsettling jolts, never building to a big climax but staying eerie throughout.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3.
How scary is Crimes of the Future?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Crimes of the Future rates 4/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be heavy on gore and genuinely disturbing. Expect it to stay with you for days.
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