Dr. Emil Hobbes is conducting unorthodox experiments with parasites for use in transplants. He believes that humanity has become over-rational and lost contact with its flesh and its instincts, so the effects of the alien organism he actually develops is a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease.

• Shivers (They Came from Within)
• David Cronenberg
• Paul Hampton
• Joe Silver
• Lynn Lowry
• Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)
• Cinépix
• DAL Productions