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Shivers (1975)
 
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Director:
David
Cronenberg |
COUNTRY
Canada |
GENRE
Horror |
AKA
The
Parasite Murders
They Came From Within |
RUNNING
TIME
87
minutes |
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Producer:
Ivan Reitman |
Screenwriter:
David Cronenberg |
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Cast includes:
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ACTOR/ACTRESS |
RATING |
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Roger St. Luc |
Paul Hampton |
 ½ |
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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 |
Review
Shivers, which was David
Cronenberg's first feature, shows little in terms of the future horror
maestro's technical and narrative skills, but the fascination for gore
and mutilated bodies is there, and if the film retains any artistic
merit today, it is through the unrelenting and sudden appearance of the
"disease" Cronenberg has concocted here – a mad scientist's
gene-manipulated parasites, which enter the human body and makes the
host strangely and uncontrollably aroused. The film has a couple of
eerie, effective scenes, but as a whole, it is 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. The film has a
student movie feel with cheap production values, and is arguably only
interesting for die-hard Cronenberg fans today. The producer is future
Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman.
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