The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.
Practical Effects
Those parasites still look revoltingly real 50 years later.
Direction
Cronenberg's debut already shows his obsession with flesh betrayal.
Score
Isham's jarring jazz-funk makes everything more uncomfortable.
Director
David Cronenberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cronenberg wrote this in 1972 while caring for his sick wife; the parasite's phallic design caused massive censorship headaches.
The Canadian government actually invested in this through tax shelters, accidentally funding the birth of body horror as we know it.
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