Arrow 4K Ultra HD Review

Crash (1996) • Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD [Arrow Video]

After getting into a car accident, a man enters a sub-culture of car-crash victims who use car accidents to rejuvenate their sex lives…

J.G Ballard’s 1973 novel was a work of transgressive fiction that caused great controversy at the time, so when the same reaction was achieved by David Cronenberg’s film adaptation it was mission accomplished. Crash was once at the centre of many Cannes Film Festival brouhahas, with audiences walking out of screenings in protest. Francis Ford Coppola was jury president the year Crash was at the prestigious festival, and detested it so much he refused to award Cronenberg the Special Jury Prize. So has another couple of decades of distance lessened this movie’s extraordinary cultural impact?

James Ballard (James Spader), a character named after the author in both the film and book, is a film producer with an unusual sex life. He’s married to Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger) but they have an open relationship, meaning both are free to have sex with strangers and report back…