Shivers (1975)
Directed by David Cronenberg
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.
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Though "Shivers" occasionally echoes a couple of its forerunners, "The Tingler" (1959) and "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), the film achieves its own peculiar power with one ingeniously lurid scene after another.
Also known under the alternate titles They Came From Within and The Parasite Murders, Shivers is an ingeniously engineered slash of thoroughly modern horror that, like George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos.
Though "Shivers" occasionally echoes a couple of its forerunners, "The Tingler" (1959) and "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), the film achieves its own peculiar power with one ingeniously lurid scene after another.
Like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) and Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968) this had the effect of making a more visually disturbing film.
Horror legend Barbara Steele ( Black Sunday , Pit and the Pendulum ) appears in a smallish role and future cult star Lynn Lowry plays a nurse (and appears nude).
The atmospheric, black and white film stirred up controversy due to some disturbingly violent content (for the time) and made an international star of lead actress Barbara Steele (8½ [1963], Castle of Blood [1964], Caged Heat [1974], Shivers/They Came from Within [1975]).
Horror legend Barbara Steele ( Black Sunday , Pit and the Pendulum ) appears in a smallish role and future cult star Lynn Lowry plays a nurse (and appears nude).
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Like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) and Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968) this had the effect of making a more visually disturbing film.