shiver be the first major horror movie from canadian film maker david cronenberg and future director of the brood and scanner and rabid and videodrome and and the remake of the fly . i saw it in 1979 when it play on a double bill with rabid . afterwards and i find i have miss the last bus and and have to walk home three mile along a dimly lit country road . you have no idea how scared i be . ( film critic barry norman say he felt like throw up in the gutter after watch it ) . shot in montreal and on a low budget and shiver be set in a newly open posh apartment block . one of the resident and a doctor and be struggle with a schoolgirl . he overpower her and put her under anaesthetic and and open her stomach and before pour acid into it . he then cut his own throat with a scalpel . he have create a strain of parasite intend to replace malfunction internal organ but which be now out of control . resemble big worm and these bug be pass onto people via sexual intercourse . annabelle and the schoolgirl and have sleep with every man in the building . once infected and the victim male and female and young and old alike spread the plague to others and who then vomit blood and bug all over the place . a small group of people try to escape but the victim have seal the exit and cut off the phone line . this be night of the living dead with an interesting and perverse twist . the zombie do not want to eat you and they want to make love to you . in common with many other 70 horror film and the lack of money prove advantageous a film maker have to rely on their imagination to create terror and rather than fall back on the safety net of special effect . romero and carpenter and depalma and and cronenberg et al produce some of the fine horror picture of all time in this period . the cast of shiver be mainly unknowns and except for barbara steele and star of numerous horror classic such a black sunday and pit and the pendulum . again this work in the film favour . you feel a though you be watch real people in danger . no special effect a such and except for joe blasco creature and they be suitably disgust . you would not eat a hot dog again after see this film . despite the somber mood and there be a few touch of humour and such a a bug land on someone umbrella and and a man in a laundry room be ambush by an obese and unattractive woman who want his body represent i be hungry for love . yuck . one idea cronenberg would not get away with today be the lift scene in which a mother and her young daughter be confront by an infected man . the intimation be that he have sex with both of them . the leashed girl crawl around on all four also probably would not be do now . it be a gripping and terrifying film and but not for everyone at least one person walk out during the screening i attend in 1979 and also manage to make a serious comment about the nature of human sexuality . the world the infected wish to create where everybody make love all the time sound attractive and but what would it mean in term of depersonalisation . ( i know what you be think . who care . ) shiver should not be remake . it be of it time . i would hate to see it redo with lashing of c. g. i. and all it intelligence remove .