Cronenberg's first take on the body politic: the horror of the flesh: sexual obsessions; the pornographic undertones; the violence of modern life; morality.......... The themes that would come up in his subsequent work again and again. IN other words a 'deep' horror film that also delivers on its ability to shock, titilate and repulse. Still holds up in the Cronenberg canon even with the obviously tight budget.
Operatic in its own twisted way and always uncompromising, this is Cronenberg's Night of the Living Dead. And I would kill for a sequel.
Não estava nada à espera de um filme de zombies. Muito menos um filme de zombies eróticos!! O vírus foi criado por um cientista que achou por bem transformar o mundo civilizado numa orgia geral de pessoas, que ao serem infectadas, agiam como seres que sentem tudo acerca do ser humano como sendo sexual. Nice Zombie Flick.
Definitely rough around a lot of edges but I still found the film to be enjoyably campy and creepy.
Pedophilic BDSM, incest, etc...Cronenberg doesn't pull any punches with this one.
Am I the only one to find this movie funny ? There's something funny about Cronenberg horror even if no joke is told.
The “ultra-modern apartment block” mentioned in the synopsis above is one of Mies van de Rohe’s residential buildings on Nun’s Island, Montreál, Canada, from around 1969.
The perverse king of venereal horror started his long career with this disturbing and enjoyable low budget freak show. A glimpse of what was yet to come.