Crash

Censorship Weekend

David Cronenberg / 1996 / Canada / 100 min - cert.18 / James Spader, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette, Elias Koteas. After a car collision, a man is initiated into a sinister yet liberating cult of crash fetishists. The body-horror director takes on J.G. Ballard's infamous novel, with a superb all-star cast getting down and dirty on the warm leatherette. Westminster Council objected to the 'ideas' underpinning the film rather than the images - the fusin of violent catastrophe and sexual release.

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