Shivers

In a Starliner Towers apartment, Dr. Emil Hobbes slices Annabelle’s stomach, pours acid into the wound, and then kills himself. The brutal act shocks the residence and foreshadows the bizarre experiment behind the outbreak. The scene sets off a chain of discoveries that ripple through the complex.

Nick Tudor, suffering from stomach convulsions, finds Annabelle and Hobbes’ bodies. He leaves the scene without calling the police, seemingly unsettled more by what he saw than by the danger it signals. His discovery triggers the mounting mystery inside Starliner Towers.

Resident doctor Roger St. Luc discovers the two bodies and immediately contacts the authorities. His professional instinct pushes him to report the incident, marking the first formal response to the unfolding crisis. The discovery intensifies the sense that something biological and dangerous is at play inside the building.

Rollo Linsky, Hobbes’ medical partner, explains that they were developing a parasite intended to reempower primal urges. He warns Roger that the parasite could spread and turn people into a mindless mob. The revelation foreshadows the epidemic that will engulf the complex.

After another wave of stomach convulsions, Nick vomits a parasite onto his balcony railing. The parasite slips back into the apartment and attacks a cleaning woman in the basement. The infection clearly moves from isolated incidents to an inside-out breakouts across Starliner Towers.

Nick’s wife Janine tries to care for him, but a parasite crawls from his mouth. Betts, a friend infected in the bath, seduces Janine and transmits the parasite to her. The chain of infection begins to ripple through more residents.

More residents are infected as the parasite spreads through the building. The hallways fill with people attacking or being attacked, turning Starliner Towers into a chaotic battleground. Roger and Forsythe struggle to track the outbreak amid the growing chaos.

Linsky arrives at Nick Tudor’s apartment to assess the situation, but Nick attaches a parasite to Linsky’s cheek. Nick kills Linsky and swallows the parasite, ensuring the infection gains a new host. The medical dread inside the complex deepens.

Forsythe tries to flee the building, but an infected security guard assaults her. Roger arrives and shoots the guard, saving Forsythe temporarily as they retreat to the basement. Forsythe recounts a dream blending eroticism and death, then vomits up a parasite, signaling the infection’s intimate grip on the survivors.

Roger returns to Nick’s apartment and kills him to end the immediate threat. He then makes for the exterior, but the infected close in, pushing him toward the pool area where the outbreak’s final clash will unfold. The chase through the building tightens the noose around the last human resistance.

At the pool, the fully infected converge and overpower Roger as Betts, Janine, and others converge. Forsythe’s parasite completes its takeover of Roger, sealing his transformation. The pool area becomes the devastating focal point of the outbreak’s spread.

The remaining infected drive out of the tower with Roger now under the parasite’s control. Early the next morning, news reports urge calm even as police begin investigating an epidemic of sexual assaults in Montreal. The community wakes to a full-blown, citywide crisis.