They Came From Within

Phallic parasites turn the residents of upscale Starliner Island, a self-contained community 12 1/2 minutes from downtown Montreal -- into sex maniacs: Who could have imagined in 1975 that David Cronenberg, the writer/director of this unpleasantly clever, queasy-making horror picture would become a critics' darling and genuine force to be reckoned with in mainstream filmmaking circles? A young woman (Cathy Graham) is found brutally murdered in her sterile Starliner Towers apartment; her killer, Dr. Emil Hobbes (Fred Doederlein), has cut his own throat. Hobbes, it turns out, was attempting to genetically engineer a parasite that could live within the human body and a...