moonspinner55 Director David Cronenberg took a wrong turn with this failed sex-melodrama about car crashes and climaxes. A young movie producer is involved in a violent two-car smash-up which leaves one man dead and his wife briefly hospitalized--and yet aroused. The producer and the woman begin a sexual relationship with car wrecks as their aphrodisiac--and they're not alone; the producer's wife is already a player in this ungainly game, and so is a local performance artist who is sexually charged by recreating celebrity crashes. Cronenberg, who also adapted J.G. Ballard's novel, was allegedly attracted not to the eroticism prevalent in the material, but rather the opportunity to delve into his characters' scarred and warped psyches (Roger Ebert called the film "A pornographic movie without pornography in it"). Unfortunately, the characters are a heavy-breathing group of hedonistic (or is that nihilistic?) freaks, pale and vacant-eyed like horny zombies, who seem to have the time and the energy (and the insurance!) to engage in such a lifestyle. What is Cronenberg's point--that death behind the steering wheel represents the ultimate orgasm? If eroticism wasn't Cronenberg's primary objective in tackling this tasteless project, that pretty much leaves everyone involved bumping and grinding without a purpose. Shaken but not stirred, if you will. *1/2 from ****

Dalbert Pringle Have you ever been turned-on by the sight of "deep-gash" scar tissue? Does the thought of being in a car crash make you horny? Are you sexually aroused by grossly mangled and disfigured limbs? Well, if you answered "Yes" to even one of these "very revealing" questions, then Crash just might be the movie that you've been waiting to see for all of your miserable life.Directed by David Cronenberg (the ultimate master of movie mumbo-jumbo), Crash is a literal head-on collision with "weird". But this ain't no interesting sort of weird. No. This is the kind of weird that literally makes your skin crawl and leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Yep. There's no denying that.Crash is a steely-cold, and, yes, inhuman sort of movie. Its story takes a completely clinical look at alienated people, with their emotionally sterile lives, who find sexual arousal in automobile accidents and grossly disfigured bodies. (I don't get it)

AndrewTheGreatAndPowerful Crash explores a fetish for car accidents. The movie's been praised for its depiction of sex. The free love is refreshing at first. As it dives deeper, the audience feels alienated rather than enlightened.The movie seems to revel in its weirdness. Strange dialog and score. The characters like being outcasts. The whole tone is dark. The filmmakers wanted the movie to feel creepy. In contrast, a lighter tone would have felt more sexually liberating. Instead it reminds you that while you can practice sex how you like, you'll still be judged for it.Side note: The sex scenes actually seem "grown up". It's too bad a film like this faced a lot of controversy. A typical porn film is infinitely more graphic.

Danny Blankenship Finally after all these years I watched "Crash" and I must say it was fine it didn't let me down. As watching many David Cronenberg movies you know that they are different and raw and often travel on the edge and show the dark nature of life. With this picture "Crash" it shows just how people can become obsessed with pleasure after near fatal death. Really watching this is like a psycho sexual journey. Anyway James Spader is James Ballard a film director who in his spare time likes having sex with Asian ladies as his wife Catherine(Deborah Kara Unger)is somewhat of a bore to him. Well after James becomes involved in a near fatal car crash the incident leads to a meeting with Dr. Helen Remington(Holly Hunter)and soon the two develop a passion and an erotic attraction it's now a cat and mouse game of car sex and this underground underworld is a culture of raw violence and raw sexual conquest(Note I really enjoyed the scene of Holly in that silk satin sexy purple colored bra!) This film is clearly different as it explores erotic means and sexual ends in a raw and different way from the norm yet it proves and shows that people's attraction and energy is not the norm when involving sex and passion. "Crash" is one cult classic film that stands on it's own.