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The film was a sort to predecessor to ''Film/{{Alien}}'', which Cronenberg believes was a bit too much inspired by it.
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* PsychosexualHorror: The movie is about a colony of PuppeteerParasites being spread through sexual contact. They were inverted by a perverted old MadScientist who wanted to turn the entire world into "one beautiful, writhing, orgy". The infected rapidly lose any and all inhibitions, and we do mean any and all, including rape, incest, and pedophilia.
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* PsychosexualHorror: The movie is about a colony of PuppeteerParasites {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s being spread through sexual contact. They were inverted by a perverted old MadScientist who wanted to turn the entire world into "one beautiful, writhing, orgy". The infected rapidly lose any and all inhibitions, and we do mean any and all, including rape, incest, and pedophilia.
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Not to be confused with the [[VideoGame/{{Shivers}} video game of the same name]].
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Not to be confused with the [[VideoGame/{{Shivers}} [[VideoGame/Shivers1995 video game of the same name]], or the [[Literature/ShiversMDSpenser children's horror series of the same name]].
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* PsychosexualHorror: The movie is about a colony of PuppeteerParasites being spread through sexual contact. They were inverted by a perverted old MadScientist who wanted to turn the entire world into "one beautiful, writhing, orgy". The infected rapidly lose any and all inhibitions, and we do mean any and all, including rape, incest, and pedophilia.
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* ApartmentComplexOfHorrors: The entire apartment complex succumb to a sexually transmitted parasite that causes the infected to become permanently aroused fiends who will attack anyone sexually, regardless of age or orientation.
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* GroinAttack: An extremely rare female variant, though it occurs off-screen; Betts is laying in the bathtub when a parasite enters through the drain and although nothing explicit is shown, the parasite is seen crawling between her legs. Later it cuts back to this same shot, now with Betts thrashing in the tub, her legs flailing about as the water turns red.
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''Shivers'' (also known as ''Orgy of the Blood Parasites'', ''The Parasite Murders'', ''They Came from Within'', and ''Frissons'') is a 1975 Canadian horror film written and directed by Creator/DavidCronenberg. His feature film debut, it embodies many of the BodyHorror concepts he would continue to explore in future films with a wide spectrum of subtlety. It stars Fred Doederlin, Paul Hampton, and Lynn Lowry.
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''Shivers'' (also known as ''Orgy of the Blood Parasites'', ''The Parasite Murders'', ''They Came from Within'', and ''Frissons'') is a 1975 Canadian horror film written and directed by Creator/DavidCronenberg. His feature film debut, it embodies many of the BodyHorror concepts he would continue to explore in future films with a wide spectrum of subtlety. It stars Fred Doederlin, Paul Hampton, and Lynn Lowry.
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''Shivers'', also known as ''Orgy of the Blood Parasites'', ''The Parasite Murders'', ''They Came From Within'', and ''Frissons'', is a 1975 Canadian horror film written and directed by Creator/DavidCronenberg. His feature film debut, it embodies many of the BodyHorror concepts he would continue to explore in future films with a wide spectrum of subtlety. It stars Fred Doederlin, Paul Hampton, and Lynn Lowry.
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''Shivers'', also known as ''Orgy of the Blood Parasites'', ''The Parasite Murders'', ''They Came From Within'', and ''Frissons'', is a 1975 Canadian horror film by Creator/DavidCronenberg, his feature film debut, and embodies many of the BodyHorror concepts he would continue to explore in future films with a wide spectrum of subtlety. It stars Fred Doederlin, Paul Hampton, and Lynn Lowry.
Dr. Emil Hobbes has spent his career developing parasites for use in organ transplants. Believing that humanity has become over-rational and has lost contact with its more primal urges, he ultimately develops an organism that acts as a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease. As a result, everyone with the parasite is consumed by uncontrollable sexual urges, spreading the parasite through the slightest sexual contact. When the parasite inevitably gets free, it soon infects an apartment building.
Dr. Emil Hobbes has spent his career developing parasites for use in organ transplants. Believing that humanity has become over-rational and has lost contact with its more primal urges, he ultimately develops an organism that acts as a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease. As a result, everyone with the parasite is consumed by uncontrollable sexual urges, spreading the parasite through the slightest sexual contact. When the parasite inevitably gets free, it soon infects an apartment building.
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''Shivers'', also known as ''Orgy of the Blood Parasites'', ''The Parasite Murders'', ''They Came From Within'', and ''Frissons'', is a 1975 Canadian horror film written and directed by Creator/DavidCronenberg, his Creator/DavidCronenberg. His feature film debut, and it embodies many of the BodyHorror concepts he would continue to explore in future films with a wide spectrum of subtlety. It stars Fred Doederlin, Paul Hampton, and Lynn Lowry.
In UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}, Dr. Emil Hobbes has spent his career developing parasites for use in organ transplants. Believing that humanity has become over-rational and has lost contact with its more primal urges, heultimately develops creates an organism that acts as a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease. As a result, everyone with the parasite is consumed by uncontrollable sexual urges, spreading causing the parasite through to spread via the slightest sexual contact. When the parasite inevitably gets free, it soon infects an a luxury apartment building.
In UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}, Dr. Emil Hobbes has spent his career developing parasites for use in organ transplants. Believing that humanity has become over-rational and has lost contact with its more primal urges, he
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* StepThreeProfit: The parasites are ostensibly to be a part of surgery-free medical treatment, but according to the MadScientist's notes, they are "a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease that will hopefully turn the world into one beautiful, mindless orgy". Somehow this will save the human race.
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* StepThreeProfit: The parasites are ostensibly to be a part of surgery-free medical treatment, but according to the MadScientist's notes, they are "a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease that will hopefully turn the world into one beautiful, mindless orgy". Somehow this will save the human race. Obviously, it wouldn't, for a plethora of reasons.[[note]]First, while sex may be great, it's still a strenuous activity, and you can only do that for so long before wearing yourself out. Humans themselves have actually used bioweapons against certain pest species that caused the males to attempt mating until they simply died of exhaustion. Second, if people are just having orgies non-stop then they aren't gathering or maintaining the resources they need to survive, such as food and shelter. Furthermore, indiscriminate sex with relatives, older women, or ''children'' would inevitably lead to a decline in genetic fitness or even injury or DeathByChildbirth for the last.[[/note]] Hobbes was just a loon.
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* LoveIsInTheAir: A variation with the love plague being the result of a [[ParasiteZombie parasite that makes people lose all inhibitions]]. With very few exceptions (such as [[LipstickLesbian the lesbian couple]]), [[FanDisservice this is]] ''[[FanDisservice not]]'' [[FanDisservice sexy at all]]. Imagine people suddenly making out with everyone else, whether the other person wants to or not, and regardless of things like attractiveness, age, or relatedness. Cronenberg manages to ''hint'' at pedophilia (two young girls being "walked" like dogs on leashes as they bark) without actually depicting it.
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* LoveIsInTheAir: A variation with the love plague being the result of a [[ParasiteZombie parasite that makes people lose all inhibitions]]. With very few exceptions (such as [[LipstickLesbian the lesbian couple]]), [[FanDisservice this is]] ''[[FanDisservice not]]'' [[FanDisservice sexy at all]]. Imagine people suddenly making out with everyone else, whether the other person wants to or not, and regardless of things like attractiveness, age, or relatedness. Cronenberg manages to ''hint'' at pedophilia (two (a young girls brother and sister being "walked" like dogs on leashes as they bark) without actually depicting it.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:Dr. St. Luc's]] infection in the pool is treated like a perverse Baptism.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Mike gives a short but brutal punch to Janine when she attacks him with a parasite.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Mike gives a short but brutal punch to Janine Nurse Forsythe when she attacks him with a parasite.
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* KubrickStare: Nicholas gives a fairly good one, which prompts Mike to shoot him ''immediately''. (The fact Nick's bathed in his friend's blood doesn't help.)
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* WouldHitAGirl: Mike gives a short but brutal punch to Janine when she attacks him with a parasite.
