Shivers

    Shivers
    1975

    Synopsis

    When the residents of a luxury apartment complex outside Montreal are infiltrated by parasites and transformed into violent, sex-crazed maniacs, it's up to Dr. Roger St. Luc to contain the outbreak from spreading to the city.

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    Cast

    • Paul HamptonRoger St. Luc
    • Joe SilverRollo Linsky
    • Lynn LowryNurse Forsythe
    • Allan KolmanNicholas Tudor
    • Susan PetrieJanine Tudor
    • Barbara SteeleBetts
    • Ronald MlodzikMerrick
    • Barry BaldaroDetective Heller
    • Camil DucharmeMr. Guilbault
    • Hanna PoznanskaMrs. Guilbault

    Recommendations

    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      Like the creatures in the films, and many of Cronenberg's other films themselves, Shivers is disturbing on an almost biological level.
    • 80

      CineVue

      It was Shivers that laid the groundwork creating the blend of sex, distorted psychologies and horror which became Cronenberg staples and his signature style in the years to come.
    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      A paranoid, prurient sexual nightmare.
    • 75

      San Francisco Examiner

      Shivers exhibits the major characteristics of Cronenberg's canon, his use of architecture as reinforcement of the film's creepy tone and the deliberate reduction of men and women to a single, compulsively sexual aspect of their identities.
    • 70

      Time Out

      Misanthropic, indeed, but the black humour and general inventiveness place it high above most contemporary horror pictures.
    • 63

      Chicago Sun-Times

      It scares and shocks us because it's so cleverly made; the writer-director, David Cronenberg, uses invention and imagination to replace expensive shock effects.
    • 60

      Variety

      A silly but moderately effective chiller about creeping parasites that systematically (and comically) 'infect' an entire highrise population with nothing less than sexual hysteria.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      Cronenberg's brand of body horror isn't to everyone's taste, but to call him a reactionary anti-sensualist who metes out grotesque punishment for sins of the flesh -- as detractors have -- is to miss the point.

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