Shivers (1975)

Directed by

David Cronenberg

Genre

horror film, independent film, science fiction film, erotic film, monster film, zombie film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 719 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Residents of a high-rise apartment building are infected by a parasitic organism that turns them into violent sexual predators. The infection spreads rapidly through the isolated community as characters struggle to contain the outbreak.

visceralclaustrophobicunsettlingclinicalbleakgrotesquetensenightmarish

What happens

Shivers, also known as The Parasite Murders and They Came from Within, and, for Canadian distribution in French, Frissons (IPA: free-SOHN; 'chills' or 'shivers'), is a 1975 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry, and Barbara Steele. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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