Buffronioc One of the wrost movies I have ever seen

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Luecarou What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.

rodrig58 If you want to see a movie where the main character is an ugly poo colored worm, watch this! The only cool scene is when Nurse Forsythe (Lynn Lowry) undress herself under the gaze of Dr. Roger St. Luc (Paul Hampton). The actors are not bad at all, they are all natural, especially Susan Petrie and Joe Silver. David Cronenberg is not a bad director and despite his obsession for disgusting horror, he gave us good films such as Eastern Promises (2007) and A History of Violence (2005). The cinematography by Robert Saad is not bad but the makeup department it is(bad). This Shivers is for Cronenberg's fans and the amateurs of the genre.

jackie It could be a milestone through David's movies! I rented this DVD and got back to my apartment, turning the lights off.For some time, I fell asleep and lost my sensibility. As I woke up sweating, I caught the glimpse of an unknown liquid coming out of the toilet, it made my heart up and down for a while, then I watched the rest of movie on my own over and over again. Overall,the aspects were fine, the plots were good, the actors were not so bad, but the music and background were a little bit scary and thrilling. The Fly was his second must-see film. It tells of the tragedies of science. The ending was thought-provoking, you know, it reminded me of something bad, maybe i would add more comments about it.

PimpinAinttEasy The film begins with a sinister looking and sounding advertisement for a luxurious urban high rise interspersed with scenes of a teenager being chased and her stomach cut open by an old man. It is later revealed in pain staking detail over a phone call (Cronenberg could not think of a more interesting way to reveal the old man's intentions?) between the hero and another character that the old man was trying to create a parasite that would help humans to get in touch with their base sexual urges. This would turn the high rise into a place for a mass sex orgy. The old man believed humans spend too much time contemplating and rationalizing. Turning them into mindless zombies who crave sex would be an antidote to sadness and urban alienation. The teenage girl was a guinea pig for the old man's experiments which turned out badly.The apartments in the high rise (where the whole film takes place) come across as sterile and tasteless. They engender human alienation from each other. Barbara Steele's (who looks beautiful) character, a tenant in the high rise, is a lonely single woman. Susan Petrie and Alan Tudor are a couple with problems.It is a great premise for a movie. But the characters and plot developments are ill conceived. After a point, it turns into your average mindless zombie blood fest with cheesy acting. A promising first 40 minutes is followed by lots of silly blood letting. An opportunity to provide some interesting insights into the state of modern life is wasted for the compulsions of making a generic zombie-horror flick.The special effects (involving mostly the parasite which usually tears itself out of the infected person's stomach) are gross and make you ill. That is probably Cronenberg's intention. He has this obsession with mutations of the human body (like in The Brood, Videodrome, The Fly etc). There are also many images of hairy and ugly male chests.Paul Hampton, like many other early Cronenberg leading men (Stephen Lack in Scanners and Art Hindle in The Brood) is plain awful. Did Cronenberg simply cast the most pasty faced actor who turned up for the audition? The foxy Lynn Lowry is quite good as the nurse who covets him.So what was Cronenberg's message? Was he echoing what Bukowski wrote about free love in "Tales of Ordinary Madness"? - ".....doldrums of mechanical people in a mechanical act, trying to tickle their cement souls back into life with a spurt of come".I think so.Whatever his intention, this was a great opportunity wasted. Maybe he should remake this film now.

bowmanblue Okay, there are no zombies in this film. My review's title is a little misleading. But it's not far away from a 'zombie movie.' A suburban tower block gets infected by parasitic organisms who turn their hosts into rampant sex-obsessed zombies. Only they're not zombies, just don't let them catch you or you'll become like them. So, in that way, it does conform to the 'zombie principal.' So, what's it like? It's certainly regarded as a 'classic.' And I can see why. It was pretty shocking (for its time). However, times have changed and there's probably more 'shocking' images in a Miley Cyrus pop video. But, if you don't judge it by today's standards, you'll see why it's become a cult classic over the years.The action... well, it's not so hot. The women are only there for eye candy and do little more than scream helplessly or get mercilessly victimised. By today's standards this film would not win any awards for a positive portrayal of women. The men are all pretty weird-looking. Apart from the hero, who is weird-looking in a 'seventies attractive' kind of way only. The special effects aren't that special and the blood is that bright red colour that only seemed to exist in the seventies.However, these 'flaws' can be pretty much overlooked if you're in the mood for something that wasn't made now and was a product of its time, rather than judging it by today's standards.It's different. Even with its zombie-like connotations it's still more of a different beast than most of today's horror offerings. If you're okay with 'period' horror (yes, I know it's only a few decades ago, but horror seems to have come a long way since then – and not always in 'the right' direction) and can put up with the 'odd squad' and their bad haircuts, give it a go before it gets remade with beautiful people and CGI special effects.