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.
1933, Hollywood, California, USA
15 October 1947, East St. Louis, Illinois, USA
17 May 1938, San Francisco, California, USA
20 August 1937, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
24 April 1906, Lorraine, France
1939, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
6 September 1963, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
15 March 1943, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
13 May 1926, Findlater, Saskatchewan, Canada
1932, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
1950, Norway
August 21, 2008
Cronenberg makes the most out of the sterile building and creates some memorably shocking images.
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.
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.
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.
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.
August 15, 2003
Cronenberg got more sophisticated later, but this is still a gross-out chiller to be proud of.
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.
April 01, 2010
Cronenberg's revolution is fraught with both dread and allure
