on starliner island and you have luxury high rise living with deluxe accommodation and include a delicatessen and a boutique and a doctor and a dentist and dry cleaning and and parasitic sexually transmit slug that be take over the population . what more could you ask for . now and i realize that this be make in 1974 and but i do not exactly buy the luxury apartment live thing and for this high rise be the epitome of tackiness and and most of it seem to be furnish in ultra modern poor taste . but enough of that and on to the important stuff and a the film open and an excited young couple come to view apartment . this be intersperse with scene of an elderly man a he chase a woman in a school girl uniform around one of these lovely dwelling and eventually capture her and and cut her open on the dining table and pour acid inside of her . and then and he cut his own throat . how that for an opening scene . well and it seem that this man be a doctor and and he be experiment with a sort of parasite that be part aphrodisiac and part something else . and anabelle brown and she of the school girl uniform and be his test subject . the problem be and that annabelle be rather well know ( and like and apparently ) by many men within this complex and have frequent visit from them and and therefore she have share this little parasite with them . the resident doctor and roger st. luc and have visit with an old college professor of his and rollo ( play by cronenberg regular and joe silver ) and and have find out more of the deceased man background and what he be up to . and that give him a bit of insight a to what go on at starliner island and although and not quite enough to deal with the problem . dr. st. luc a a rather interesting hairstyle and too and kind of an extreme wind blown look and perhaps achieve by apply spray after come in out of a gale . at any rate and the parasite be move from person to person and also can survive outside of the body and but be always look for new body to host them and so they aren not outside for long . and pretty soon the whole complex be full of sex craze murderous lunatic . our intrepid doctor be determine not to become one of them and it do seem he one of the last holdout and but unfortunately not for long . and then and after all the fun be over at home and why not take a drive to montreal . it be and after all and only minute away . this be an impressive debut and definitely different and original for the time in which it be make . cronenberg be rather a master at incorporate the creepy and nasty into everyday life and this be just a taste of thing to come . positive .