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Release Date: 1975

Cast: Joe Silver, Barbara Steele, Barry Baldaro, Ronald Mlodzik, Allan Kolman, Lynn Lowry, Camil Ducharme, Hanka Posnanska, Silvie Debois, Susan Petrie, Fred Doederlin, Charles Perley ...MORE

Cast: Joe Silver, Barbara Steele, Barry Baldaro, Ronald Mlodzik, Allan Kolman, Lynn Lowry, Camil Ducharme, Hanka Posnanska, Silvie Debois, Susan Petrie, Fred Doederlin, Charles Perley, Paul Hampton, Wally Martin, Vlasta Vrana ...LESS

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Shivers (filmed as Orgy of the Blood Parasites; alternate titles: The Parasite Murders, They Came from Within, and Frissons for the French Canadian distribution) is a 1975 Canadian body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. Cronenberg won "Best Director" at the 1975 Sitges Film Festival. Dr. Emil Hobbes (Fred Doederlin) is conducting unorthodox experiments with parasites for use in transplants, however, he believes that humanity has become over-rational and lost contact with its flesh and its instincts, so the effects of the organism he actually develops is a combination... MORE

Shivers (filmed as Orgy of the Blood Parasites; alternate titles: The Parasite Murders, They Came from Within, and Frissons for the French Canadian distribution) is a 1975 Canadian body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. Cronenberg won "Best Director" at the 1975 Sitges Film Festival. Dr. Emil Hobbes (Fred Doederlin) is conducting unorthodox experiments with parasites for use in transplants, however, he believes that humanity has become over-rational and lost contact with its flesh and its instincts, so the effects of the organism he actually develops is a combination aphrodisiac and venereal disease. Once implanted, it causes uncontrollable sexual desire in the host. Hobbes implants the parasites in his teen-aged mistress, who promiscuously spreads them throughout the ultra-modern apartment building, outside Montreal, where they live. The community's resident physician, Roger St. Luc (Paul Hampton), and his assistant, Nurse Forsythe (Lynn Lowry) attempt to stop the parasite infestation before it overwhelms the city's population. The film's chaotic structure mirrors the collapse of residential life in the apartment block. The opening shows a young couple being LESS