Parasite Killer

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Movie
German title Parasite Killer
Original title Shivers
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1975
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director David Cronenberg
script David Cronenberg
production Ivan Reitman
camera Robert Saad
cut Patrick Dodd
occupation

Shivers is a Canadian film directed by David Cronenberg from the year 1975 . The film belongs to the horror film genre. Parasite Killer was Cronenberg's first commercial success.

In its structure and the unity of space and time, the film is very similar to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead from 1978 .

action

In a state-of-the-art apartment complex, the scientist Dr. Emil Hobbes a young woman, dumps acid into her abdominal cavity and then kills himself. The man had experimented with parasites that were supposed to replace defective organs and thus make transplants unnecessary. But the experiment got out of control: the parasites increased the sex drive of their hosts in order to get in contact with new hosts more quickly.

The doctor Roger St. Luc and the nurse Forsythe try in vain to prevent the parasites from spreading. There is orgiastic debauchery among the residents. Eventually the residents and with them the parasites leave the apartment complex.

controversy

The film was Canada's most commercially successful film in its day. It was funded in part with funds from the National Film Board of Canada . The right-wing conservative Canadian journalist Robert Fulford picked up the film in the Canadian print magazine Saturday Night under the headline "You Should Know How Bad This Movie Is, You Paid For It" (You have to know how bad this film is, you paid for it) violently. The Canadian Parliament was also concerned with the social and artistic value of film. This debate not only made it difficult for Cronenberg to finance his later films, but also forced him to move out of his Toronto apartment in early 1977 at the urging of his landlady, who was a member of an anti-pornographic group.

Trivia

Susan Petrie couldn't cry straight away. That is why Cronenberg worked with onions. The recordings failed, however, and since Cronenberg ran out of onions, she allowed him to hit them in the face. With his face numb from all the repetitions, he had to settle for attitudes that he didn't really like.

According to Lynn Lowry , the shoulder she stabbed with the fork was David Cronenberg's. He had a mat under his shirt for protection, but it missed it.

Remake

TAJJ Media announced a remake for 2014 in August 2013, and Danish actress Rie Rasmussen got the vacant director's position for the project in September 2013. Filming is scheduled to start in February 2014.

Premieres

  • Canada October 10, 1975
  • Austria in September 1976
  • Germany 2nd September 1976

DVD releases in Germany

  • Shivers - The Parasite Killer; (Splendid Film / WVG); Release: October 14, 2002, FSK: 18
  • David Cronenberg Cult Box ("Shivers" & "Rabid"); (Splendid Film / WVG); Release: September 22, 2008, FSK: 18
  • Shivers - The Parasite Killer; (Splendid Film / WVG); Release: September 25, 2009, FSK: 16 (re-examination)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Telegraph: 10 things you never knew about David Cronenberg, September 26, 2014
  2. ↑ Dark Horizons: Cronenberg's "Shivers" Gets A Remake ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated September 7, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.darkhorizons.com
  3. ↑ Shiver's Remake Set to Begin Filming This February !! dated September 6, 2013

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