Shivers
David Cronenberg
- 1975
- Canada
- Horror / Erotic
- 1h27mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Following Doctor Hobbes failed experiments, a parasite infects a high-tech apartment building, turning the people it touches into sex maniacs. Soon a large number of residents are contaminated, forcing the others to try to flee…
David Cronenberg’s first actual feature film, (after two experimental mid-length films Stereo and Crimes of the Future), Shivers already contains the seeds of some of the Canadian master’s aesthetics: frantic bodies, both erotic and dehumanized, body horror in which exposed flesh becomes the mere receptacle of the character’s psyches, alienated by technology and progress from which the parasite originates. J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise is not far off. Barbara Steele is by turns moving and unsettling.
Credits
- With : Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Alan Migicovsky, Barbara Steele...
- Screenplay : David Cronenberg
- Photography : Robert Saad
- Editing : Patrick Dodd
- Music by : Fred Mollin
- Production : Ivan Reitman, Don Carmody
