CRASH (18)

100 minutes - Canada / United Kingdom 1996 - Dir: David Cronenberg
Starring: James Spader, Holly Hunter and Elias Koteas
 
Technology and sexuality meet in a head-on collision in this adaptation of writer J.G. Ballard’s hugely transgressive novel.
 
James Spader stars as James Ballard, a film producer whose deviant sexual desires are awakened by a near fatal automobile accident with Dr. Helen Remington (Holly Hunter). Soon the pair, alongside Ballard’s wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), are drawn into an underground world of car-crash fetishism presided over by renegade scientist Vaughan (Elias Koteas). Danger, sex and death become entwined as eroticism and technology join together in a disturbing, deadly union.
 
To coincide with the release of David Cronenberg’s latest picture Crimes of the Future, Triskel Arts Centre is also hosting a special uncut screening of this controversial film.