On Screen! Shivers (Season 3, Episode 1)
TV Episode | Documentary

On Screen!

Shivers (Season 3, Episode 1)

TV Episode | Documentary

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 ...See moreThe 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. Since then, Shivers has outlasted its detractors and won over a significant cult following for its effective, low-budget chills and stark social allegories. Producers Ivan Reitman and John Dunning, stars Sue Helen Petrie, Paul Frampton, and makeup effects artist Joe Blasco (Members of the films cast and crew) are on hand to talk about the debut feature of Canada's most prolific and shocking auteur. Written by Anonymous See less

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18 cast members

Name	Known for
Iris Quinn Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Magic Stocking (2015)
David Cronenberg Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Fly (1986)
Jason Anderson Self Self See fewer	On Screen! (2005)
Bart Testa Self Self See fewer	Lamentations a Monument for the Dead World (1985)
Peter Morris Self Self See fewer	On Screen! (2005)
Caelum Vatnsdal Self Self See fewer	Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight (1997)
Piers Handling Self Self See fewer	Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 (1979)
David Spanner Self Self See fewer	On Screen! (2005)
John Dunning Self Self See fewer	My Bloody Valentine (2009)
André Link Self Self See fewer	My Bloody Valentine (2009)
Alfred Pariser Self Self See fewer	The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Ivan Reitman Self Self See fewer	Up in the Air (I) (2009)
David Spaner David Spaner - Self (credit only) David Spaner - Self (credit only) See fewer	The RIDGE Theatre (2024)
Don Carmody Self Self See fewer	Chicago (2002)
Allan Kolman Self Self See fewer	Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Lynn Lowry Self Self See fewer	Shivers (1975)
Joe Blasco Self Self See fewer	Shivers (1975)
Robert Saad Self Self See fewer	Avonlea (1990)