Shivers | David Cronenberg’s outrageously smart body horror debut at 50

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Shivers | David Cronenberg’s outrageously smart body horror debut at 50

David Cronenberg enraged Canada’s moral guardians and started his career with a bang 50 years ago with Shivers. We take a look back at body horror’s patient zero…  The same year that Jaws invented the modern summer blockbuster, David Cronenberg was up in Canada, quietly inventing his own horror subgenre. In 1975, Shivers emerged like a monster escaping from a lab: ungainly, weird-looking, eliciting a mixture of fascination and disgust from those…