10 Body Horror Movies That Went Too Far

As mentioned when spotlighting The Brood, it's genuinely tough to not just reel off a whole bunch of David Cronenberg pictures here.

While Rabid, Videodrome, The Fly and even Crash could easily warrant inclusion in this list, keeping it to just two Cronenberg films means that Shivers has to get the nod alongside The Brood.

This 1975 effort goes 'too far' right from the get-go, setting its stall out instantly for what is to come across Shivers' 87-minute run time. To do that, the movie opens with a young woman being killed by a doctor, who then proceeds to rip the dead girl's shirt off, slice open her stomach, pour acid into the gaping wound, then slice his own throat.

And with that, Shivers is off to the races.

That opening scene took place at the luxury Starliner Towers apartment complex, and it's here that the rest of the film is set as a turd-looking parasite passes from person to person - turning the infected into mindless, horned-up, aggressive sorts intent on spreading this parasite far and wide.

With Shivers, David Cronenberg put himself on the map, paving the way for what would become an iconic career in and out of the horror genre.