10 Horror Movies That Missed Out The Money Shot
6. The Decimation Of Montreal - Shivers
In the most basic description, David Cronenberg's Shivers centres on a turd-like parasite that passes from person to person, turning each individual into a horned-up, murderous lunatic.
Set at the luxury Starliner Towers apartment complex in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, this 1981 offering is as deranged as one would expect from early Cronenberg. A sprinkling of gore, a smidge of sex, a healthy dollop of body horror; all were present and accounted for in Shivers.
While more and more of the Starliner building's residents become infected by the film's parasitic entity, it's Paul Hampton's Roger St. Luc - the doctor of the complex - who ends up being the last person standing. Even then, St. Luc is eventually overwhelmed in the on-site swimming pool by the bloodthirsty, humping hordes of Shivers as the picture enters its final few minutes.
As Shivers closes, the audience sees the deranged masses of Starliner Towers firing up their cars and heading into central Montreal. While it is a solid ending for the movie, it does feel as if the film may have benefited from another few scenes that see the erratic impact the infected immediately began to have on the rest of Montreal as a way to show how the world as a whole could be ravaged by this parasite.