man and what good response to george romero newly create zombie archetype could be good . cronenberg debut feature and though a little worn around the edge and be a spectacular funhouse and a dire warning and a potent sexualized anxiety creation and and best of all and a whole lotta fun . the feature start with an advertisement for a nice and seclude yuppie apartment complex and sensually ( and homoerotically ) appeal to live in some paradise high rise remove from the great degradation of canadian society . class and sexuality and fear and and set be all establish in one swift stroke . it not long before the carnage begin . see and it seem some mad scientist be use the inhabitant of this virtual eden to test out some replacement for organ transplant represent a parasite that be also a stimulant and an aphrodisiac . basically and a person lose a kidney and replaces it with a penis shape worm that make he or she attack and have sex with almost everything in sight . such automatized lust be very zombie like and but with the added bonus of maintain language and critical thinking ( at least enough critical thinking to not be stop by door and for instance ) . yesss and it not long before these worm have burst from the interior of some hapless young man to destroy the entire community into an orgiastic apocalypse . and seriously and if term like orgiastic apocalypse excite and intrigue and or compel you and this movie be right for your taste . cronenberg begin his body horror mentality by mix sex and death and violence and disease and medicine and and technology at manic level and something he have continue to do for over thirty year now . the movie be a little different from his usual work in that a an early feature and he use some of the more regular trope of horror film make such a monster cam and chiaroscuro ( later and he would find he do not even need these device a the plot and concept of his idea be enough and and most of the horror he would show would be in a much more direct exposition with much more open and regular space ) . the movie at one point literally become a sex or horror fun house a each door be open to reveal another act find by the mainstream to be sordid and degraded and from pedophilia to incest to homosexuality and everything in between and the underlying erotic impulse of the community be abjectly reveal . what fascinate about this movie be that it kind of hard and from modern eye and to see the end result a be too bad of a deal . the troubling part be the sexual violence and the attack and but once it all do and it hard to discern the difference between consensual and exploitative . do the character in this movie and upon get invade by the worm and start do thing against their will and or do the worm merely excite a repressed desire that they finally act out . everything be a sexual act and a nurse say at one point and describe a dream she have to her impotent lover or hero figure . such a theme will continue through almost everything cronenberg would later film and a he would become the master of body horror . polarisdib .