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Shivers (1975)
 
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Director:
David
Cronenberg |
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COUNTRY
Canada |
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GENRE
Horror |
AKA
The
Parasite Murders
They Came From Within |
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RUNNING
TIME
87 minutes |
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Producer:
Ivan Reitman |
Screenwriter:
David Cronenberg |
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Cast includes:
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RATING |
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Roger St. Luc |
Paul Hampton |
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Rollo Linsky |
Joe Silver |
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Nurse Forsythe |
Lynn Lowry |
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Nicholas Tudor |
Alan Migicovsky |
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Janine Tudor |
Susan Petrie |
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Betts |
Barbara Steele |
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Review
Shivers, which was David
Cronenberg's first feature, may not reflect the future horror
maestro's technical or narrative skills, but the fascination with gore
and mutilated bodies is definitely there. The film exhibit a certain artistic
merit in the unrelenting and sudden appearance of the
"disease" Cronenberg has concocted here: a mad scientist's
gene-manipulated parasites that enter the human body and make the
host strangely and uncontrollably aroused. The film has some eerie, effective scenes
and a kinky vibe running through it, which was arguably autochthonous to
the 1970s. As a whole, Shivers is a bit too much all over the
place, with the "infected" acting as hyperactive rapists one minute and
Night of the Living Dead-type zombies the next, but the ominous
playfulness Cronenberg was able to create despite his cheap production values is
rather impressive. A must-see for Cronenberg fans. The producer was future
Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman.
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