The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sex... Read allThe residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
- Nicholas Tudor
- (as Alan Migicovsky)
- Detective Heller
- (as Barry Boldero)
- Mr. Guilbault
- (as Camille Ducharme)
- Mrs. Guilbault
- (as Hanka Posnanska)
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- Writer
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Storyline
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- TriviaDavid Cronenberg laments not having the benefit of CG to make the slug look better or at least erase the wires, but he's okay with it as a product of its time. "Unlike George Lucas I had no desire to go back and correct it with modern technology. Let it live in the time that it existed with all the flaws. That's where it belongs."
- GoofsThe manager cuts a building's phone lines. Later, Roger St. Luc rings the old francophone couple from the lobby after being attacked in the basement. The couple answer the phone and tell St. Luc that his girlfriend, the nurse, has left the apartment because the phone had been cut off. Roger used the intercom, not the phone lines.
- Quotes
Forsythe: Roger, I had a very disturbing dream last night. In this dream I found myself making love to a strange man. Only I'm having trouble you see, because he's old... and dying... and he smells bad, and I find him repulsive. But then he tells me that everything is erotic, that everything is sexual. You know what I mean? He tells me that even old flesh is erotic flesh. That disease is the love of two alien kinds of creatures for each other. That even dying is an act of eroticism. That talking is sexual. That breathing is sexual. That even to physically exist is sexual. And I believe him, and we make love beautifully.
- Alternate versionsThe 1983 Astral Video VHS features an edited TV print of the film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Elvira's Movie Macabre: They Came From Within (1983)
From the technical point of view, it is very amateurish. The lighting and camera work are highly reminiscent of home made Super 8, and the sound is bad beyond belief.
Although the mindless creatures attacking anything that moves immediately recall the Zombies, Cronenberg's movie has some original ideas. In fact, watching German television these days, the subject of bored middle class diving into sex orgies (at least in their fantasy) seems more up to date than ever. Unlike Romero's Zombies, Cronenberg's creatures simply embark into endless sexual excesses, including minors. Indeed, one of the most scandalous scene shows two young girls on dog leashes, climbing up a stair and barking - unexcusable image!
The special effects in "Shivers" work very well and are more slimy, organic, and visceral than say Romero's, and give better testimony of the vulnerability of the human body. They set the tone for Cronenberg's use of gore in his subsequent films.
"Shivers" earned Cronenberg immediately the title of the "reigning king of shlock horror" - very appropriate.
- AS-69
- Aug 16, 2001
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- Also known as
- It Came from Within
- Filming locations
- 200 Rue de Gaspé, Île-des-Soeurs, Montréal, Québec, Canada(the Starliner apartment building)
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- Budget
- CA$185,000 (estimated)
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