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Shivers (1975)
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Reviews Counted:2
Fresh:1
Rotten:1
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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
Starring: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Barbara Steele
Director: David Cronenberg
Director: David Cronenberg
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Release:
Sep 16, 1998
Reviews for Shivers
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.
Shivers, written and directed by Cronenberg, is a paranoid, prurient sexual nightmare.
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