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03/26/09
Shivers (1975)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:15
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Bizarre parasites lead the inhabitants of a high-rise apartment building to go on an orgy of violence. Horror and some humor mix in director Cronenberg's breakthrough hit.
Starring: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Barbara Steele
Director: David Cronenberg
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Reviews for Shivers
Top CriticCronenberg makes the most out of the sterile building and creates some memorably shocking images.
08/21/08
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06/24/06
No review available.
10/10/05
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.
05/09/05
Top CriticNo review available.
04/22/05
No review available.
12/08/04
Cronenberg shows his stuff as an inventive auteur.
09/08/04
Early Cronenberg. Crude, but effective.
11/20/03
Cronenberg got more sophisticated later, but this is still a gross-out chiller to be proud of.
08/15/03
Unusually heady for a zero budget shocker, finding its sources for fear in the mind/body disconnect between man and the basement of his sexual nature.
03/09/03
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11/07/02
In terms of narrative structure Shivers appears to be a traditional horror film, but it also breaks many restraints of the genre.
10/06/02
Deliciously disgusting.
10/06/02
The second half is a nearly non-stop explosion of gore and nudity, as well as incest, rape and lesbianism.
10/05/02
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10/05/02
The "me" generation discarded sexual norms when it suited them, and Cronenberg offers a variety of punishments for their hypocrisy.
02/28/02
Despite all the nastiness there is a compulsive nature to this film that makes it very hard to switch off even when in full gory swing.
04/11/01
Perhaps the most oral of horror films, Cronenberg's work reaches its chilling climax as the fashionable housing project is transformed into a hive swarming with cries of a dreadful, undesirable ecstasy.
01/01/00
...the movie has a low-key immediacy to it that makes the perversions of its milieu all the more distressing.
01/01/00
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