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Shivers (1975)
Country of Origin:
Canada
Year of Production: 1974
Running Times: 87m
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Cinépix / DAL Productions / The Canadian
Film Development Corporation
Executive Producers: Alfred Pariser, Peter James (uncredited)
Co-Producer: Don Carmody
Producers: Ivan Reitman, John Dunning (uncredited), André Link
(uncredited)
Production Manager: Don Carmody
SCRIPT
Script: David Cronenberg
DIRECTION
Director: David Cronenberg
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Robert Saad
1st Assistant Camera: Rick Maguire, Yves Drapeau
2nd Assistant Camera: Paul Gravel
Gaffer: John Sawyer
Electrician: Tom Sawyer
Assistant Electrician: Dexter Pallie
Best Boy: Jean-Paul Houle
Key Grip: John Daoust
Assistant Grip: Jim Lawler
Stills: Attila Dory
Lab: Les Laboratoires de Film, Montréal, Canada
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Patrick Dodd
MUSIC
Music Supervisor: Ivan Reitman
SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Danny Goldberg
Sound Recordist: Michael Higgs
Boom Operators: Jean-Claude Malle, Jim Thompson
Sound Re-Recordist: Nolan Roberts
Sound Assistant: Len Blum
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Suzanne Riou-Garand
Assistant Make Up: Louiselle Champagne
SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up and Creatures: Joe Blasco
Assistant: David Dittmar DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Erla Gliserman
Art Assistant: Rose Marie McSherry
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Diane Boucher
Production Assistants: Cliff Rothman, Stewart Harding
Production Secretaries: Josette Perrotta, Irene Litinsky
LOCATIONS
Locations: Île-des-Soeurs, Montréal, Québec, Canada
CAST
Paul Hampton (Roger St Luc)
Joe Silver (Rollo Linski)
Lynn Lowry (Nurse Forsythe)
Allan Migicovsky (real name: Allan Kolman) (Nicholas Tudor)
Susan Petrie (Janine Tudor)
Barbara Steele
(Betts)
Ronald Mlodzik (Merrick)
Barry Baldaro (Detective Heller)
Camil Ducharme (Mr Guilbault)
Hanka Posnanska (Mrs Guilbault)
Wally Martin (doorman)
Vlasta Vrana (Kresimer Sviben)
Silvie Debois (Benda Sviben)
Charles Perley (delivery boy)
Al Rochman (Parkins)
Julie Wildman (Miss Lewis)
Arthur Grosser (Mr Wolfe)
Edith Johnson (Olive)
Dorothy Davis (Vi)
Joy Coghill (Mona Wheally)
Joan Blackman (elevator mother)
Kirsten Bishopric (elevator daughter)
Fred Doederlein (Emil Hobbes)
Sonny Forbes (garbage room man)
Nora Johnson (laundry woman)
Kathy Graham (Annabelle)
Robert Brennen (boy)
Felicia Schulman (girl)
Roy Wittan (bearded man)
Denis Payne (1st elevator man)
Kevin Fenlow (2nd elevator man)
PLOT SUMMARY
Deranged scientist Emil Hobbs believes that
Mankind thinks too much and synthesises a parasite, part venereal
disease, part aphrodisiac, which he test on a teenage lover. But the
girl infects many of the residents of the isolated tower block in
which she lives and soon the entire building is full of sex crazed
maniacs as the slug-like parasites spread.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Cronenberg's
first feature film saw him making his first concerted effort to explore
some of his favourite themes in a more traditional narrative than in
his previous work. It's still a long way from the mainstream mind and
the easily offended will find much to be outraged about here. There
is, as you'd expect, a certain roughness around the edges but that only
enhances the paranoid atmosphere. Very much a product of its time and
consequently rather dated now, it still packs a ferocious punch with
its uncanny echoes of the AIDS epidemic.
AVAILABILITY
Canada
Theatrical Distributor: Cinépix Film Properties Inc
UK
DVD Distributor: Prism Leisure / Metromedia (PPA 1333)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Trans American Films
Video Distributors: Anchor Bay Entertainment; Avalanche Home Entertainment;
Vestron Video
DVD Distributor: Image Entertainment (ID 4602 AVDVD)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: R
Finland
Rating: K-18
France
Rating: -16
Ireland
Rating: 18
Norway
Rating: 18
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: X; 18
USA
Rating: R
West Germany
Rating: 18
AWARDS
1975
Catalonian International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
Medalla Sitges en Oro de Ley Best Director (David Cronenberg) - winner
TIMELINE
1974
August
21: Canada – filming begins
September
17: Canada – filming ends
1975
October
10: Canada – theatrical release
1976
September
2: West Germany – theatrical release
October
18: Spain – theatrical release
1983
September
23: Sweden – theatrical release
November
11: Finland – theatrical release
1998
September
30: USA - DVD release (Image Entertainment (ID 4602 AVDVD))
POSTER TAGS
T-E-R-R-O-R beyond the power of priest or science to exorcise.
BEING TERRIFIED IS JUST THE BEGINNING!
Going MAD is just the beginning...
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Il demone sotto la pelle – Italian
title
Dreszcze – Polish title
Frissons – French / French Canadian title
Frossa – Swedish title
Kylmät väreet – Finnish title
Orgy of the Blood Parasites - working title
Os Parasitas da Morte – Portugese title
The Parasite Complex - working title
The Parasite Murders
Parasiten-Mörder – German title
They Came from Within – US title
Vénen de dintre de... – Spanish Catalan
title
Vinieron de dentro de... – Spanish title
LINKS
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
The American
Nightmare (2000)
David
Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word be Flesh (1999)
Long Live the
New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg (1987)
SEE ALSO
Night of the
Living Dead (1968) KEYWORDS
apartment buildings; diseases; doctors; medical clinics; nurses; parasites;
scientists; teenagers; sex; sex maniacs
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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