Shivers

1975
R
1h 27m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

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Body Horror Horror Sci-Fi

The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

24K

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POPULARITY

3,858

3,175

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

Nicholas Tudor
(as Alan Migicovsky)

Susan Petrie

Janine Tudor

Barbara Steele

Betts

Ronald Mlodzik

Merrick

Barry Baldaro

Detective Heller
(as Barry Boldero)

Camil Ducharme

Mr. Guilbault
(as Camille Ducharme)

Hanna Poznanska

Mrs. Guilbault
(as Hanka Posnanska)

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

Director
- David Cronenberg
Writer
- David Cronenberg
All cast & crew
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Trivia
David Cronenberg laments not having the benefit of CG to make the slug look better or at least erase the wires, but he's okay with it as a product of its time. "Unlike George Lucas I had no desire to go back and correct it with modern technology. Let it live in the time that it existed with all the flaws. That's where it belongs."

Goofs
The manager cuts a building's phone lines. Later, Roger St. Luc rings the old francophone couple from the lobby after being attacked in the basement. The couple answer the phone and tell St. Luc that his girlfriend, the nurse, has left the apartment because the phone had been cut off. Roger used the intercom, not the phone lines.

Quotes
Forsythe: Roger, I had a very disturbing dream last night. In this dream I found myself making love to a strange man. Only I'm having trouble you see, because he's old... and dying... and he smells bad, and I find him repulsive. But then he tells me that everything is erotic, that everything is sexual. You know what I mean? He tells me that even old flesh is erotic flesh. That disease is the love of two alien kinds of creatures for each other. That even dying is an act of eroticism. That talking is sexual. That breathing is sexual. That even to physically exist is sexual. And I believe him, and we make love beautifully.

Alternate versions
The 1983 Astral Video VHS features an edited TV print of the film.

Connections
Featured in Elvira's Movie Macabre: They Came From Within (1983)

Soundtracks
Rooms in a Museum
(uncredited)
Music by Eugene Cines
Published by Boosey & Hawkes

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Featured review

7/10

Decent Cronenburg Film

SHIVERS (aka THEY CAME FROM WITHIN) is another pretty twisted outing from freak-o Canadian director David Cronenburg. SHIVERS is not nearly as memorable as some of Cronenburg's other works (VIDEODROME, THE FLY or my personal favorite - THE BROOD...) but it is still worth a look for anyone that is into Cronenburg's strange cinema.

SHIVERS is about parasites that enter their human hosts and cause them to do all kinds of strange sexual and violent things. Pretty cool concept that is handled well, and the film is both weird and entertaining as only Cronenburg can do it. Again, not the best of his films by any means, but still solid. Give it a shot - 7.5/10