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06/24/06
Shivers (1975)
81 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 13 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
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. [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Barbara Steele
Director: David Cronenberg
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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
Top Critic
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 Critic
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
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
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
Shivers, written and directed by Cronenberg, is a paranoid, prurient sexual nightmare.
01/01/00
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