On Screen!: Shivers
5.8
The debut feature from Canada's most celebrated filmmaker, David Cronenberg, Shivers provided the young director with a crash course in feature filmmaking and established many of the unsettling themes explored in his later work. In the film, medical professor Dr. Hobbes (Fred Doederlein) creates a genetically-engineered organism he plans to use to bring about a more sensually aware society, but his experiments turn deadly when the aphrodisiac-producing parasite gets out of control and spreads throughout a swinging Montreal apartment complex. Despite the film's success on both sides of the border, the critical backlash against the film was used to launch a cultural attack on Canada's film funding.
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Cast
20 people
David Cronenberg
himself
Known for
Alias Grace
The Fly
Joe Blasco
himself
Known for
Track of the Moon Beast
Iris Quinn
Narrator
Nick Orchard
Paul Corupe
Tristan Orchard
Ivan Reitman
himself
Also in
Time Is But a Window: Ghostbusters 2 and Beyond
Who You Gonna Call?: A Ghostbusters Retrospective
Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson
Bart Testa
Bart Testa
Peter Morris
Peter Morris
Caelum Vatnsdal
Caelum Vatnsdal
Piers Handling
Piers Handling
Tristan Orchard Director · Paul Corupe Writer
First release February 10, 2008
Production
Soapbox Productions
Production
Languages
Original language
English
Release dates
Canada · February 10, 2008
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No release date listed for United States.
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