Crimes of the Future (1970)
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- Not Rated
- 1h 3min
- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- 10 Aug 1984 (USA)
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Adrian Tripod
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Jon Lidolt |
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Tania Zolty |
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Paul Mulholland |
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Jack Messinger |
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Iain Ewing |
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William Haslam |
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Raymond Woodley | ... |
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Stefan Czernecki |
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Rafe Macpherson |
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Willem Poolman |
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Don Owen |
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Udo Kasemets |
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Bruce Martin |
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Brian Linehan |
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Leland Richard |
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Stephen Zeifman |
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Norman Snider |
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William Wine |
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Sheldon Cohen |
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George Gibbins |
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Aus von Blicke | ... |
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Directed by
| David Cronenberg | ||
Written by
| David Cronenberg | ... | (written by) |
Produced by
| David Cronenberg | ... | producer |
Cinematography by
| David Cronenberg | ||
Editing by
| David Cronenberg | ||
Additional Crew
| Jon Lidolt | ... | title designer |
| Stefan Nosko | ... | production assistant |
Production Companies
Distributors
- New Cinema Enterprises (1974) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Image Entertainment (1989) (United States) (video) (laserdisc)
- The Criterion Collection (1996) (United States) (video) (laserdisc)
- The Criterion Collection (1998) (United States) (video) (laserdisc)
- Alliance Atlantis Home Video (2004) (Canada) (DVD)
- Filmfreak Distributie (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
- Pan Vision Oy (2006) (Finland) (DVD)
- A Contracorriente Films (2013) (Spain) (DVD)
- Blue Underground (2004) (United States) (DVD)
- The Criterion Collection (2015) (United States) (DVD)
- The Criterion Collection (2015) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
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Storyline
| Plot Summary |
Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod (Mlodzik), sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population of sexually mature women. Tripod joins a succession of organisations including Metaphysical Import-Export and the Oceanic Podiatry Group, and meets various individuals and groups of men who are trying to adjust themselves to a defeminized world. One man parodies childbirth by continually growing new organs which are removed from his body. Eventually Tripod comes upon a group of paedophiles which is holding a 5 year-old girl, and they urge him to mate with her. He senses the presence of Antoine Rouge. Written by Michael Lauzon |
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| Budget | $20,000 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
| Trivia | The film was shot without any sound recording because the 35mm camera made too much noise. The first-person voice-over and a few strange sound effects were added later. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in Shivers (2008). See more » |
| Quotes |
Adrian Tripod:
When Antoine Rouge disappeared, soon after he had himself contracted the disease which bears his name, we believe that he had preferred to die alone, in an exile only partially self-willed. Still, he on one occasion remarked that Rouge's malady could not possibly be fatal to Rouge, though it had already killed hundreds of thousands of women. And it is true that his death was confirmed only by certain authorities who had long wished for his death. Yet the Rouge, as my mentor and I were preternaturally close, and I feel sure that he no longer exists... See more » |