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Shivers

Shivers

2008TV Episode
Documentary
⭐ 5.8
IMDB Rating
13 votes

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. I...

Director
Tristan Orchard
Writers
N/A
Stars
Iris Quinn, David Cronenberg, Jason Anderson
Release Date
February 10, 2008
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Iris Quinn
Iris Quinn
as Self - Narrator
David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg
as Self
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Jason Anderson
as Self
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Bart Testa
as Self
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Peter Morris
as Self
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Caelum Vatnsdal
as Self
Piers Handling
Piers Handling
as Self
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David Spanner
as Self
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John Dunning
as Self
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AndrΓ© Link
as Self

🎬 Technical Specs

Production
Pippin Productions, Soapbox Productions

🏷️ Keywords

making of

🎯 Categories

Documentary

⭐ Featured Review

Enjoyable retrospective
by bazmitch23 β€’ 2015-09-16
8/10

"I saw this on the Blu-ray. We learn about Cronenberg's past, his father was an author and he died of cancer. His father's condition is what made him get into science. When he went to University, some friends of his were in a movie. The combination of his interest of telling stories and science made him want to make movies. After two short films, David wrote "Orgy of the Blood Parasites" which later became Shivers. But he couldn't find a studio to want to make the film. Whilst in LA, hoping that low budget king Roger Corman would help him make it, David met future Sil..."

πŸ’‘ Did You Know?

The episode for Shivers (1975) is featured on Arrow Video UK's 2014 Blu-ray for the film.

πŸ“– Synopsis

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. I...