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Shivers
Directed by
David Cronenberg
R
1975
88m
Horror
,
Science Fiction
6.3
85%
58%
6.4
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The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.
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Cast of Shivers
Paul Hampton
Roger St. Luc
Joe Silver
Rollo Linsky
Lynn Lowry
Nurse Forsythe
Allan Kolman
Nicholas Tudor
Susan Petrie
Janine Tudor
Barbara Steele
Betts
Ronald Mlodzik
Merrick
Barry Baldaro
Detective Heller
Camil Ducharme
Mr. Guilbault
Hanna Poznanska
Mrs. Guilbault
Wally Martin
Doorman
Vlasta Vrana
Kresimer Sviben
Silvie Debois
Benda Sviben
Charles Perley
Delivery Boy
Al Rochman
Parkins
Julie Wildman
Miss Lewis
Arthur Grosser
Mr. Wolfe
Edith Johnson
Olive
Dorothy Davis
Vi
Joy Coghill
Mona Wheatley
Shivers Ratings & Reviews
Horror Queers Podcast
Trace Thurman
Of course Cronenberg's feature debut is about sex slugs. And, wouldn't you know it? It's pretty great, too.
Stream on Demand
Sean Axmaker
Shivers is an ingeniously engineered slash of thoroughly modern horror that, like George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos.
Cambridge Day
Tom Meek
Kitschy, creepy and pretty much the film...that announced Cronenberg as a cutting-edge horror force...
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...an absolutely interminable piece of work...
Anatomy of a Scream
Joe Lipsett
Shivers greatest strength is its conflation of the relationship between class and repressed/perverse sexual desires, including assault, rape and murder.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
The horror, if any, resides in leaving the known and comfortable behind en route to a new and radical way of thinking, feeling, living.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The film is so tackily written and directed, so darkly photographed and the sound so dimly recorded, that it's difficult to stay with it.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Cronenberg shows his stuff as an inventive auteur.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Early Cronenberg. Crude, but effective.
Nick's Flick Picks
Nick Davis
Cronenberg got more sophisticated later, but this is still a gross-out chiller to be proud of.
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
Unusually heady for a zero budget shocker, finding its sources for fear in the mind/body disconnect between man and the basement of his sexual nature.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Deliciously disgusting.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
The second half is a nearly non-stop explosion of gore and nudity, as well as incest, rape and lesbianism.
Goatdog's Movies
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
The "me" generation discarded sexual norms when it suited them, and Cronenberg offers a variety of punishments for their hypocrisy.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Shivers, written and directed by Cronenberg, is a paranoid, prurient sexual nightmare.
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Bryant Frazer
...the movie has a low-key immediacy to it that makes the perversions of its milieu all the more distressing.
San Francisco Examiner
Bob Stephens
Perhaps the most oral of horror films, Cronenberg's work reaches its chilling climax as the fashionable housing project is transformed into a hive swarming with cries of a dreadful, undesirable ecstasy.
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