History YMMV / Shivers

!! The Film:

* FridgeLogic: What exactly were the father and daughter doing before St. Luc entered the room? The film makes it seem as though they were just silently sitting perfectly still in the dark before St. Luc came in, and only then did they start acting out. If so, why? One possible explanation is that they were ''just'' infected.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The fact the film just CrossesTheLineTwice with the sex plague makes certain scenes hilarious. One notable instance is when a couple go to the building's manager to complain about the constant noise and racket in the building. The manager nods and takes them to his office to sort the whole thing out -- when they enter, there's an ''orgy'' going on in his office, and there's ''a comedy beat for reaction'', before which the couple are dragged into the orgy themselves.
* ValuesDissonance: As a result of the sex parasites, men start making out with other men and women start making out with other women. It's ambiguous, but viewers can interpret this as people losing all rational inhibitions. Nowadays, putting homosexuality on the same level as incest or pedophilia would be offensive to Western audiences. On the other hand, that's ''entirely'' the point since Roger is depicted as a brutish DesignatedHero.

!! The Video Game:

* NightmareFuel: The entire game - surprisingly effective for a point-and-click adventure rather than more traditional action-oriented SurvivalHorror. The realisation of what you're about to find in the hollow lion [[spoiler:(it's Merrick's body)]] as you stand directly in front of it reading the final diary entry is a good example; as is the music, particularly the track which incorporates a woman's anguished screams and her repeated cries of "Help me!" into the score.
* NightmareRetardant: For such an atmospheric game, the Ixupi themselves look laughable, like straight out of a children's cartoon.
* TearJerker: The story behind [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e_uIgzxqIs Anansi The Spider]]. Windlenot was so enamored with the tune when he first heard it, that he decided to make the music box for his son Geoffrey.
--> "Alas, I never gave it to him."

!! The Book Series:

* {{Anvilicious}}: ''Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum'' beats the reader over the head with its themes about the horrors of humanity. This is lampshaded as even the characters start getting tired of Mad Mac's speeches.
* BizarroEpisode: ''Babyface & the Killer Mob'', which is basically a non-horror gonzo comedy in which a boy wakes up in the body of a member of TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily.
* CrossesTheLineTwice:
** Anthony's slightly [[EagleLand skewed]] beliefs about America (he at one point excitedly asks Paul where they can buy things like grenades and machine guns) in ''Shriek Home Chicago.''
** The "Mommy, are these heathens?" bit in ''Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum''.
* FairForItsDay: While not overtly offensive, [[http://www.gnarlybookreviews.com/2014/01/shivers-15-pool-ghoul.html some]] readers may arch their brows at the slightly awkward and inaccurate portrayal of the Native American character in ''Pool Ghoul'', even though he was portrayed sympathetically, as were the unseen Natives in ''Ghosts of Camp Massacre'' (the ghostly ones in ''Terror on Tomahawk Island'' were depicted as being AmbiguouslyEvil, though).
* TheScrappy: Samantha from ''Ghosts of Camp Massacre'' due to how much of an InsufferableGenius she is, and how she constantly acts high and mighty to the reader.
* ValuesResonance: ''Ghosts of Camp Massacre'' has a message about the devastating impact that colonialism can have, a concept that is now extremely common in pop culture.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids:
** The books were intended for the same age group (preadolescents) as ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'', and while ''Goosebumps'' could get dark and violent, ''Shivers'' did so somewhat more frequently, while also being much more explicit in its depictions of dark subject matter like murder and gun violence in various books, Native American genocide and historical revisionism in ''Pool Ghoul'' and ''Ghosts of Camp Massacre'', filicide in ''The Thing in Room 601'' and ''A Ghostly Playmate'', self-hatred in ''A Waking Nightmare'', grief and loss in ''The Ghosts of Devil's Marsh'', child abuse in ''Creepy Clothes'', and class, racial, and religious persecution (as graphically demonstrated through wax recreations of things like the Atlantic Slave Trade, UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict, etc.) in ''Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum''.
** The series could sometimes get surprisingly sexually suggestive, like when Samantha expresses fear of being attacked by "perverts" in ''Ghosts of Camp Massacre'' or when a mother calls her son a "filthy boy" after being told that he has been browsing adult chatrooms and websites with names like "X-Dreams" in ''Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum.'' ''The Curse of the New Kid'' is probably the most boundary-pushing book, as it contains a scene in which the protagonist mentions that his parents spend every Friday night locked in their bedroom watching implicitly pornographic videos, and another in which a bully seemingly tries to sexually assault a girl, pinning her against a tree and making lascivious-sounding comments like, "You can have her when I'm through" as the girl cries, "Stop! Stop it! Please! I'll scream. Help! Somebody help!"

** The series could sometimes get surprisingly sexually suggestive, like when Samantha expresses fear of being attacked by "perverts" in ''Ghosts of Camp Massacre'' or when a mother calls her son a "filthy boy" after being told that he has been browsing adult chatrooms and websites with names like "X-Dreams" in ''Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum.'' ''The Curse of the New Kid'' is probably the most boundary-pushing book, as it contains a scene in which the protagonist mentions that his parents spend every Friday night locked in their bedroom watching implicitly pornographic videos, and another in which a bully seemingly tries to sexually assault a girl, pinning her against a tree and making lascivious-sounding comments like, "You can have her when I'm through" as the girl cries, "Stop! Stop it! Please! I'll scream. Help! Somebody help!"

* FairForItsDay: While not overtly offensive, PC readers may arch their brows at the slightly awkward and inaccurate portrayal of the Native American character in ''Pool Ghoul'', even though he was portrayed sympathetically, as were the unseen Natives in ''Ghosts of Camp Massacre'' (the ghostly ones in ''Terror on Tomahawk Island'' were depicted as being AmbiguouslyEvil, though).

* {{Anvilicious}}: ''Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum'' beats the reader over the head with its themes about the horrors of humanity. This is lampshaded as even the characters starts getting tired of Mad Mac's speeches.

* {{Anvilicious}}: ''Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum'' beats the reader over the head it's themes about the horrors of humanity. This is lampshaded as even the characters starts getting tired of Mad Mac's speeches.

** The "Mommy, are these heathens?" bit in ''Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum.''

** The books were intended for the same age group (preadolescents) as ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'', and while ''Goosebumps'' could get dark and violent, ''Shivers'' did so somewhat more frequently, while also being much more explicit in its depictions of dark subject matter like murder and gun violence in various books, Native American genocide and historical revisionism in ''Pool Ghoul'' and ''Ghosts of Camp Massacre'', filicide in ''The Thing in Room 601'' and ''A Ghostly Playmate'', self-hatred in ''A Waking Nightmare'', grief and loss in ''The Ghosts of Devil's Marsh'', child abuse in ''Creepy Clothes'', and class, racial, and religious persecution (as graphically demonstrated through wax recreations of things like the Atlantic Slave Trade, UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict, etc.) in ''Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum.''

* ValuesDissonance: As a result of the sex parasites, men start making out with other men and women start making out with other women. It's ambiguous, but viewers can interpret this as people losing all rational inhibitions. Nowadays, putting homosexuality on the same level as incest or pedophilia would be offensive to American audiences. On the other hand, that's ''entirely'' the point since Roger is depicted as a brutish DesignatedHero.

* FollowTheLeader: It was one of the many children's horror novel series that sprung up in the wake of ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}.''

* ValuesDissonance: As a result of the sex parasites, men start making out with other men and women start making out with other women. Given that it's set in the more conservative 1970s[[note]]Remember, the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s didn't exactly filter through to most layers of society immediately[[/note]], this was ''probably'' intended to be seen as people losing all rational inhibitions. Nowadays, putting homosexuality on the same level as incest or pedophilia would be incredibly insulting. On the other hand, that's ''entirely'' the point since Roger is depicted as a brutish DesignatedHero.

* FairForItsDay: While not overtly offensive, modern readers may still be amused by the slightly awkward and inaccurate portrayal of the Native American character in ''Pool Ghoul'', even though he was portrayed sympathetically, as were the unseen Natives in ''Ghosts of Camp Massacre'' (the ghostly ones in ''Terror on Tomahawk Island'' were depicted as being AmbiguouslyEvil, though).

* ValuesResonance: ''Ghosts of Camp Massacre'' has the protagonist discover that a fictional supposed American hero (who even has a statue in his honor) actually brutally massacred a tribe of Native Americans, and when she tries to tell others about this, they shrug it off as they were taught that he was a heroic figure, and do not feel like questioning that. The themes of history not being what you were taught is still quite relevant to this day.