Shivers.
Part corman-esque exploitation picture, part art house horror that feels like a cross between the works of William Burroughs and J.G Ballard and Night of the living dead. Starliner tower, a luxury apartment complex for upper middle class Canadians that's situated on an island in relative isolation and as self sufficient as possible. Due to an experiment gone awry by a pederast scientist on his teenage lover a parasite that's described as part aphrodisiac and part venereal disease is unleashed into the apartment with devastating results. Since a large number of the complexes male residents have been having affairs with the teenager the Parasites run out of control quickly.
Under director David Cronenbergs direction Starliner towers becomes something akin to a petri dish as we watch modern civilised society revert to a Bacchanalian orgy where anyone of any age and gender is fair game. Elements of the film are still troubling today. Certainly the little girls that turn up in the various rampages as well as the sexual violence on display should make most people uncomfortable. That's pretty much the point. The film refuses to make any moral judgements throughout and takes a detached view of proceedings as we watch the parasitical disease run its course.
Shivers is still as potent a film today as it was on release, Arrows Blu-ray looks phenomenal as well so highly recommended to any who have not seen the film.
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