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Shivers (They Came from Within)
The film tells a story about a scientist who decides to kill a girl, devastates her body, and then kills himself. A doctor who is responsible for autopsy uncovers a secret, which makes everything becomes chaos.
1950, Norway
29 December 1937, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
13 May 1926, Findlater, Saskatchewan, Canada
6 September 1963, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
April 01, 2010
Cronenberg's revolution is fraught with both dread and allure
April 10, 2016
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.
November 20, 2003
Early Cronenberg. Crude, but effective.
September 08, 2004
Cronenberg shows his stuff as an inventive auteur.
January 01, 2000
Shivers, written and directed by Cronenberg, is a paranoid, prurient sexual nightmare.
August 15, 2003
Cronenberg got more sophisticated later, but this is still a gross-out chiller to be proud of.
May 17, 2017
The horror, if any, resides in leaving the known and comfortable behind en route to a new and radical way of thinking, feeling, living.
September 26, 2014
A simplistic and maddening little gem that spoofs our fear of sex while pushing sexual content on film to its very limits.
May 09, 2005
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.
August 21, 2008
Cronenberg makes the most out of the sterile building and creates some memorably shocking images.