Shivers

Before there were Human Centipede films, there was early David Cronenberg. Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with Tom Six. And David Cronenberg next film is an adaptation of a bad Don DeLillo novel with the actor from Twilight. But a lot of the perversity and extremity we see n current horror cinema such as the Human Centipede films, A Serbian Film, and The Bunny game is proceeded by early Cronenberg. In the seventies and eighties Cronenberg had it going on. Shivers is still a shocking film years and years later. The film was made in Canada in the 70's. The general plot line is that a doctor has breed a form of parasite that spreads through venereal contact and acts as an aphrodisiac to ensure that it moves along. The parasites get loose in an apartment complex outside of Montreal. It's like watching a documentary about the Green Door. This film is really disgusting. You can see it being a precursor to A Serbian Film in it's thematics of total sexual perversion. The parasites are completely repulsive. And of course in order that the parasites spread themselves, there has to be a whole lot of rape in the film. And while uninhibited sexuality has it's appeal, it's of course unsanitary and conducive to the spread of disease. So the film doesn't make sexuality look so great. It's massively entertaining, though. Anything that paved they way for Human Centipede 2 to exist is okay in my book, and Tom Six has identified early Cronenberg as a strong influence. The film is also known as They Came from Within.