Shivers is an ingeniously engineered slash of thoroughly modern horror that, like George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos.

| Sep 8, 2023

Kitschy, creepy and pretty much the film...that announced Cronenberg as a cutting-edge horror force...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2020

...an absolutely interminable piece of work...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 22, 2020

Shivers greatest strength is its conflation of the relationship between class and repressed/perverse sexual desires, including assault, rape and murder.

| Sep 15, 2018

The horror, if any, resides in leaving the known and comfortable behind en route to a new and radical way of thinking, feeling, living.

| Original Score: B+ | May 17, 2017

A simplistic and maddening little gem that spoofs our fear of sex while pushing sexual content on film to its very limits.

| Sep 26, 2014

I'm shocked no one else has tried 'sex zombies' as a horror film device since this one -- they're terrifying.

| Mar 26, 2014

Cronenberg's revolution is fraught with both dread and allure

| Apr 1, 2010

Cronenberg makes the most out of the sterile building and creates some memorably shocking images.

| Aug 21, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2005

The film is so tackily written and directed, so darkly photographed and the sound so dimly recorded, that it's difficult to stay with it.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2004

Cronenberg shows his stuff as an inventive auteur.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2004

Early Cronenberg. Crude, but effective.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2003

Cronenberg got more sophisticated later, but this is still a gross-out chiller to be proud of.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2003

Unusually heady for a zero budget shocker, finding its sources for fear in the mind/body disconnect between man and the basement of his sexual nature.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2002

Deliciously disgusting.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2002

The second half is a nearly non-stop explosion of gore and nudity, as well as incest, rape and lesbianism.

| Oct 5, 2002