When Crash premiered in 1996, it didn't just receive bad reviews; it sparked a moral panic. In the UK, the Daily Mail campaigned to have it banned, calling it a movie "beyond the bounds of depravity." The film follows a film producer (James Spader) who, after surviving a head-on collision, is drawn into a subculture of people who recreate famous car accidents to achieve sexual transcendence.
The 1996 film , directed by David Cronenberg and based on the novel by J.G. Ballard