![]() ![]() The whole of it is in a constant state of construction and reconstruction, a continuous and ever-doomed battle against entropy and that human desire to matter a little before it's all over too soon. Miller is, even more than his Nashville, the quintessential American film. Screenplay by Robert Altman and Brian McKay, based on the novel McCabe by Edmund Naughtonīy Walter Chaw SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. ![]() Starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane That's why it works so well as a chilling overture to a filmmaking career that critics have described as The Cronenberg Project, one in which the director uses film after film to explore love, sex, physical transformation, and mortality.Ĭontinue reading "Shivers (1975) - Blu-ray + Digital" » ![]() And there's a lot that's grody about Shivers. Any cut corners in lighting, design, and special-effects work only enhance the generally grody feel. The hurried, sometimes awkward mise en scène may as well be deliberate, given that it jibes so well with the film's chilly, alienating tone. ![]() If it's a naive film in some respects, it benefits from naivete. Shivers was Cronenberg's first commercial feature, and by the director's own admission he was hardly equipped at the time to head up a production with any significant budget. Set almost entirely in a Montréal apartment complex and photographed in a jaundiced palette that leans towards yellow-green, it's about the proliferation of parasites that make their way from body to body by a variety of sickening means, transforming their hosts into insatiable sex maniacs. It's also a spit-take on those sex-ed hygiene films that try to frighten teenagers into abstinence. In some sense, Shivers, a venereal horror movie that invites you to track the vectors of sexual intercourse among a group of apartment-dwellers, is a parody of a soap opera where the point is who is sleeping with whom. Starring Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Barbara Steeleīy Bryant Frazer SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. ![]()
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