Title: Parasites In Paradise...
Product review: SHIVERS had to be controversial when it came out. With it's theme of "sexual-revolution-gone-mad", and David Cronenberg's unflinching use of deviation and violence, this film is guaranteed to get someone really worked up! Some of the disturbing images forever burned into my cranium include rape, incest, and two half-naked kids crawling around on leashes! Yikes! Aside from all of the unsettling imagery, and also because of it, SHIVERS remains one of the best of Cronenberg's early works. His genius lies in taking the insanely ridiculous, and making it terribly believable. As in his bizarre follow-up RABID, we get a parasitic threat that takes control of human hosts. Let's just say that SHIVERS takes the "free love" of the 60s, and hits it straight between the eyes w/ the STDs and numbness of the 70s! A twisted, horror masterpiece... P.S.- The magnificent Lynn Lowry (THE CRAZIES) and horror icon Barbara Steele (BLACK SUNDAY, NIGHTMARE CASTLE) co-star...
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