It opens on an effective note: A smoothly modulated television voice describes the joys of living in a totally isolated, self-sufficient apartment complex on

★★★★☆ Almost forty years after its first release, Shivers (1975) is still difficult to watch. Even for a director as renowned for his bizarre...

This first commercial feature by a former underground film-maker offers a heady, if finally muddled, combination of globs of horror and social criticism. Desp

Here's the type of film that will leave some viewers more deranged than the zombie sluts in it.

Shivers, a low-budget Canadian production, is a silly but moderately effective chiller about creeping parasites that systematically (and comically) 'infect' an entire highrise population with nothing less than sexual hysteria.