Original title: Crash
Year: 1996
Country: CAN
Region code: A/B/C
Content: 4K UHD
EAN: 5027035023137
Image: 1.66:1 (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Audio:
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
Subtitles: English SDH
Rating: 18
Genre: Drama
Cast: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette
Director: David Cronenberg
Synopsis:
Unsatisfied by his marriage, James Ballard joins Dr. Helen Remington and begins to explore the eroticism of the car and the sexual violence of auto accidents. His quest eventually leads him to Vaughan, a renegade scientist overcome by the erotic power of the crash.
Extras:
4K restoration of the uncut NC-17 Version, supervised by director of photography Peter Suschitzky and approved by director David Cronenberg
4K (2160p) UHD Blu-Ray presentation in High Dynamic Range 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo DTS-HD Master Audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Audio commentary with film scholar Adrian Martin
Interviews with Suschitzky, executive producer Jeremy Thomas, composer Howard Shore and casting director Deirdre Bowen 2019
Q&A with Cronenberg and actor Viggo Mortensen at TIFF 1996
Q&A with Cronenberg and source novel writer JG Ballard at the National Film Theater in London
Behind-the-Scenes footage and contemporary press interviews
Architect of Pain: The Cronenberg Project video essay by Caelum Vatnsdal on Cronenbergs use of architecture and location Crash! (1971, 18 mins)short film originally broadcast as part of the BBCs Review series, starring JG 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)
Original Trailers
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
