an early piece from david cronenberg and this be his first cinematic exploration of theme which he would continually come back to throughout his career in film such a existenz and videodrome and the fly and crash . to best explain these theme and i must qoute the man himself and i be say and i love sex and but i love it a a veneral disease . i be syphilis . i be enthusiastic about it and but in a very different way from you . and while that doesnt shed a whole lot of light on the film and it sure be a hell of a qoute positive . the plot of shiver and aka the parasite murder and revolve around a parasite which have be breed to heighten sexual desire and other primal instinct while dampen our mental awareness . this parasite have be let lose within a high tech high rise block thanks to the experiment upon a young girl by an old scientist . the horror begin immediately and a do the social metaphor and idea of sex and death . it be interest to note this film be produce before the outbreak of aid and but be entirely applicable in our modern world . in some way this be a tale of warn and of what can go wrong and how we can destroy ourselves . but above all and cronenberg delight in sink u into the flesh and so the film can also be see a fable of a world go mad with life and freedom and which many would not consider so horrific . it defy simple catergorisation and it be not just a story about rampantly sexually active teenager like so many of it kind . it be a story about every person desire for safety and and the darker desire which hide behind it . wonderfully direct and intriguingly write and there be little that i can fault this film for and except perhaps it little to obvious reference to romero night of the living dead . while it be obviously partly inspire by that film and and brilliantly reinterpret it for a new age and a new social stratum and the tiresome zombie that stagger about like slug be a little out of place and but fortunately it do not let the film down . a must see .