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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.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Shivers
Being Terrified is Just the Beginning!
1975 · 1h 28m · R
Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
David Cronenberg
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Shivers
Overview
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.
Director and cast
- David Cronenberg Director
- Paul Hampton as Roger St. Luc
- Joe Silver as Rollo Linsky
- Lynn Lowry as Nurse Forsythe
- Allan Kolman as Nicholas Tudor
- Susan Petrie as Janine Tudor
- Barbara Steele as Betts
- Ronald Mlodzik as Merrick
- Barry Baldaro as Detective Heller
- Camil Ducharme as Mr. Guilbault
- Hanna Poznanska as Mrs. Guilbault
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Shivers, written and directed by Cronenberg, is a paranoid, prurient sexual nightmare.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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