Shivers

In 'Shivers', a doctor's experimental parasites, intended to replace damaged organs, escape confinement and infiltrate a high-rise apartment complex. As the residents are infected, they become sexually aggressive and violent, resulting in a nightmarish, chaotic scenario.

• It's David Cronenberg's first commercial feature film.
• Initially titled 'Orgy of the Blood Parasites'.
• Shot in 15 days on a low budget of $180,000.
• The movie faced heavy censorship in the UK.
• The film was part of the Cannes Film Festival's 1975 lineup.

• Even dying is an act of eroticism.
• We're just the landlords. The tenants will come and go.
• Parasites, parasites, that's all you think about.
• I had a very disturbing dream last night. In this dream, I found myself making love to a strange man. Only I'm having trouble you see, because he's old... and dying... and he smells bad, and I find him repulsive. But then he tells me that everything is erotic, that everything is sexual, you know what I mean? He tells me that even old flesh is erotic flesh. That disease is the love of two alien kinds of creatures for each other. That even dying is an act of eroticism.
• You've killed us. You've killed the entire world.