On Screen!: Shivers (2008)

ALL 02/10/2008 (en) 47 Min
  • Release
    02/10/2008
  • Production
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  • Original title
    On Screen!: Shivers
  • Original language
    en
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Overview

The debut feature from Canada's most celebrated filmmaker, David Cronenberg, Shivers provided the young director with a crash course in feature filmmaking and established many of the unsettling themes explored in his later work. In the film, medical professor Dr. Hobbes (Fred Doederlein) creates a genetically-engineered organism he plans to use to bring about a more sensually aware society, but his experiments turn deadly when the aphrodisiac-producing parasite gets out of control and spreads throughout a swinging Montreal apartment complex. Despite the film's success on both sides of the border, the critical backlash against the film was used to launch a cultural attack on Canada's film funding.

  1. Tristan Orchard

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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On Screen!: Shivers (2008) 47 Min

ALL 02/10/2008 (en)
  • Release 02/10/2008
  • Production
  • Original title On Screen!: Shivers
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The debut feature from Canada's most celebrated filmmaker, David Cronenberg, Shivers provided the young director with a crash course in feature filmmaking and established many of the unsettling themes explored in his later work. In the film, medical professor Dr. Hobbes (Fred Doederlein) creates a genetically-engineered organism he plans to use to bring about a more sensually aware society, but his experiments turn deadly when the aphrodisiac-producing parasite gets out of control and spreads throughout a swinging Montreal apartment complex. Despite the film's success on both sides of the border, the critical backlash against the film was used to launch a cultural attack on Canada's film funding.

  1. Tristan Orchard

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer