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.
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04/11/01
Shivers (1975)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:14
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.6/10
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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...the movie has a low-key immediacy to it that makes the perversions of its milieu all the more distressing.
01/01/00
Cronenberg makes the most out of the sterile building and creates some memorably shocking images.
08/21/08
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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12/08/04
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04/22/05
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10/10/05
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
Deliciously disgusting.
10/06/02
The "me" generation discarded sexual norms when it suited them, and Cronenberg offers a variety of punishments for their hypocrisy.
02/28/02
Early Cronenberg. Crude, but effective.
11/20/03
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11/07/02
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
Cronenberg got more sophisticated later, but this is still a gross-out chiller to be proud of.
08/15/03
Cronenberg shows his stuff as an inventive auteur.
09/08/04
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10/05/02
Shivers, written and directed by Cronenberg, is a paranoid, prurient sexual nightmare.
01/01/00
Top CriticPerhaps 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
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