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Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 87

Budget: $179,000

Revenue: -

Language: en

Webpage: -

Release Info


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  • 1976-07-06
     R

  • 1976-08-04
     -

  • 1976-09-02
     18

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Alternative Titles

  • They Came from Within
  • The Parasite Murders
Content Score: 100

(1975)

5.7/10 (27 votes)

Overview

The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.

Tagline

Going mad is just the beginning of the terror...

Crew

Director: David Cronenberg
Writer:

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Cast

Paul Hampton

Paul Hampton
as Roger St. Luc

Joe Silver

Joe Silver
as Rollo Linsky

Lynn Lowry

Lynn Lowry
as Nurse Forsythe

Barbara Steele

Barbara Steele
as Betts

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A review by John Chard

Disease is the love of two creatures for one and other.

Shivers is written and directed by David Cronenberg. It stars Fred Doederlin, Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry and Barbara Steele. Music is by Ivan Reitman and cinematography by Robert Saad.

Montreal's Starliner Island Complex suddenly becomes home to parasitic organisms that upon entering a human host, turns them into flesh-eating sexual predators.

Cronenberg's first commercial feature film has become a little too over analysed over the years due to the Canadian auteur's subsequent career. Meanings and motives within Shivers have been se... read the rest.