87 minutes – Horror
Language: Emglish
Release date: October 10, 1975
US release date: July 6, 1976 (as They Came From Within)
Canadian Distributor: Cinépix Film Properties Inc.
US Distributor: Trans American Films

This early David Cronenberg feature has a low-rent B-movie look and feel, but he does a lot with very little. When residents of a singles lifestyle apartment building become riddled with a man-made parasite that acts as a powerful aphrodisiac and causes a deforming venereal disease they become violent and sexually aggressive. Many elements of director’s later films can be seen in this early effort. The film, one of Ivan Reitman`s early successes as a producer, established Cronenberg’s reputation for gross-out horror, and became a cult favourite.

The still from Shivers was scanned from an original in the Northernstars Collection.

Also see: Greg Klymkiw’s 5 Favourite Canadian Horror Films.