Shivers (1975)
Horror Queers
Horror Queers
4.7 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You have to control yourself. |
| 0:11.0 | You have to control yourself. And welcome back to horror queers. |
| 0:27.3 | We're talking, you've got a perfectly good bug where you used to have a rotten kidney. |
| 0:31.9 | We're talking Annabel Brown was a pretty popular girl around Starliner Towers. |
| 0:37.3 | And we're talking, I'm hungry for love. |
| 0:40.9 | And I'm Joe. |
| 0:41.8 | And I'm Trace, and we're talking cherry pie. |
| 0:46.2 | God, okay. |
| 0:48.0 | I put in my notes, licking cherry pie like a pussy, but I figured that might be too crude to open up the episode. |
| 0:53.6 | And then you've just said it 10 seconds later. that's what editing's for. I'm just kidding. Don't edit this out. I would never. We are discussing David Kronenberg's technical feature directorial debut. He directed some underground films before this, but this is his first quote-unquote real film in Shivers. |
| 1:12.6 | Or if you were in the United States when this came to theaters, they came from within. |
| 1:16.9 | Yeah, which is definitely not as good a title. |
| 1:19.7 | No, no, no, shivers is way better. |
| 1:21.1 | I mean, I am partial to the original title, which was Orgy of the Blood Parasites, but, you know, it's a little long. |
| 1:28.4 | I think you're going to run into some censorship problems. I mean, this movie already |
| 1:32.8 | stoke controversy, as I'm sure you're going to tell us about your production history. So |
| 1:36.8 | maybe we were like, what is a title we can actually market that will allow people to go and |
| 1:42.2 | see it? Yeah. And Shivers is definitely, I mean, again, we clued all in last week with big content warnings, this movie is kind of filled with sexual assaults. Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Kind of. It is filled with sexual assault. It is filled with sexual assault. But it's also, maybe this will get me into trouble. And maybe it's just the fact that it's 50 years after the fact because happy 50 |
| 2:03.7 | is shivers. |
| 2:04.6 | Oh, right. |
| 2:05.1 | But I think there's something odd about the depiction of sexualized violence. |
| 2:11.1 | Like this, to me, is sometimes closer to a zombie film in some ways because these people |
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