Let's be realistic.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

David Cronenberg's 1975 sci-fi/horror film stars Paul Hampton, Joe Silver and Lynn Lowry. This begins in an apartment building where a scientist kills a young woman and then himself. Hampton plays doctor, Roger St. Luc who discovers that he was working on an experiment with parasites and the girl was infected. The parasites turn their hosts into mindless, sex fiends and soon, they spread in the apartment building, infecting the residents. The late, Silver (Rabid) plays Roger's friend, Rollo Linsky who is a scientist and Lowry plays nurse, Forsythe. This is pretty good, the cast is decent and there's great make-up effects. If you're into body horror flicks, give this a view.

Okay, there are no zombies in this film. My review's title is a little misleading. But it's not far away from a 'zombie movie.' A suburban tower block gets infected by parasitic organisms who turn their hosts into rampant sex-obsessed zombies. Only they're not zombies, just don't let them catch you or you'll become like them. So, in that way, it does conform to the 'zombie principal.' So, what's it like? It's certainly regarded as a 'classic.' And I can see why. It was pretty shocking (for its time). However, times have changed and there's probably more 'shocking' images in a Miley Cyrus pop video. But, if you don't judge it by today's standards, you'll see why it's become a cult classic over the years.The action... well, it's not so hot. The women are only there for eye candy and do little more than scream helplessly or get mercilessly victimised. By today's standards this film would not win any awards for a positive portrayal of women. The men are all pretty weird-looking. Apart from the hero, who is weird-looking in a 'seventies attractive' kind of way only. The special effects aren't that special and the blood is that bright red colour that only seemed to exist in the seventies.However, these 'flaws' can be pretty much overlooked if you're in the mood for something that wasn't made now and was a product of its time, rather than judging it by today's standards.It's different. Even with its zombie-like connotations it's still more of a different beast than most of today's horror offerings. If you're okay with 'period' horror (yes, I know it's only a few decades ago, but horror seems to have come a long way since then – and not always in 'the right' direction) and can put up with the 'odd squad' and their bad haircuts, give it a go before it gets remade with beautiful people and CGI special effects.

Filmed in the beautiful Canadian city of Montreal, Quebec, They Came From Within is a freaky, disturbing and messed up little horror sci-fi that will haunt for forever once you watch it. Unfortunately there are is an excessive amount of sex stuff in it, but there's a point to it, it's not there to be pervy although the footage probably earned the director lots of money from perverts wanting to view the movie.In a high-rise in Quebec, it's seen as a beautiful location for tourists and the elite who can afford to live there. One day a horrific murder happens in one of the rooms. An old man kidnaps a woman, cuts her open and pours acid into her insides to destroy her internal organs. As cops investigate, it turns out that there's been more to the case than just some psycho trying to steal organs. A parasite has been developed that is spread through sexual contact, turning the infected into sex-crazed maniacs just leaping up at people like perverted zombies. Soon a few victims try to stop it before it gets much worse and infects the entire world.I saw this movie with my best friend, and we were both sixteen at the time, and living in Canada we were looking for Canadian horror films (we wanted to see if we'd been to the filming locations, nerdy, huh?) and we came across this one. As it turned out my friend had been to the area that It Came From Within was filmed at (My hometown was the filming location of the 1981 slasher My Bloody Valentine). We figured we had to see this, and we enjoyed it, but both of us agreed that all the sex stuff was really disgusting and over the top. A lot of parents show horror films to their kids these days and I strongly advise you don't choose this one, there are many disturbing, perverted and disgusting scenes. The scene with the woman having her internal organs ripped open is very graphic and disturbing, not to mention she's naked at the time, and the fact that it's a fat old man ripping open her stomach while she's still alive doesn't help the situation any.It does have good soundtrack, beautiful if not dreary at times scenery great acting, gory and realistic special effects and a few comedic moments such as a man leaning out the window and puking all over an old woman's clear plastic umbrella. It's not a bad movie, and if you don't like seeing so many graphic scenes there may be a director's cut available. It's like Eating Raoul combined with Don't Go Near the Park.

Shivers. now called They Came from Within (1975) Very odd title change! Anyway, This was re-watch, I had not seen this movie for really long time, I did enjoyed it a lot back then.I thought it had Very strange story but a good plot apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.and there weer good moment in this movie, This dose feel a bit out dated now and could done a bit more with the attack scenes in this movie. I didn't mind looked really really, some decent effect and some odd effect in the movie, which made me laugh,The acting was okay in this movie in this movie, I did enjoy how the movie endedIt's was not as good as I remember it! 5 out of 10