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Shivers(Movie, 1975)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 28min | Genre: Horror
ShiversRating: 3.2/5 (with 262262 votes)
Shivers, also known as The Parasite Murders and They Came from Within, and, for Canadian distribution in French, Frissons (IPA: free-SOHN; 'chills' or 'shivers'), is a 1975 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry, and Barbara Steele. ()
Movie poster of Shivers

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Awards & Nominations for Shivers

Sitges Film Festival Best Director Award

About Shivers

The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.

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Trailer for Shivers + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Shivers ≣ 1975 ≣ Trailer(Trailer, 1:28)

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Additional Information

Production country: Canada
Shot in: Montreal
Plays in: Canada
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 17 languages: Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/02/1976 (World premiere: 10/10/1975)
Producer: Ivan Reitman
Screenwriter: David Cronenberg
Executive Producer: John Dunning
Film Editor: Patrick Dodd
Composer: Fred Mollin, Ivan Reitman
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Frissons"
"데이 컴 프럼 위딘"
"Huivering"
"Frossa"
"The Parasite Murders"
"They Came from Within"
Budget: 179,000 USD
Revenue: 1,000,000 USD (= 559%)

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Other movies with this title: Shivers (US, 1934), Shivers (PL, 1981)

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