Rabid
Directed by David Cronenberg
In David Cronenberg’s must-see cult favorite, a woman named Rose (porn star Marilyn Chambers) develops a thirst for blood after receiving experimental surgery. When Rose wakes up, she finds a stinger under her armpit which she uses to feed off victims, who later turn rabid and attack others. RABID is body horror as only Cronenberg can do, with sex and death inextricably linked thanks to Rose’s phallic parasite. Chambers gamely made the leap to “respectable” films, and die-hard disco fans may recognize her bizarro single “Benihana” playing over one particularly nasty attack. Contains strong language, violence and gore.
In David Cronenberg’s early cult favorite, a woman develops a thirst for blood after experimental plastic surgery.
Cast: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver
Member Reviews
enjoyable for a rainy Monday afternoon!
Nice atmosphere
If you remotely like David Cronenberg, you will really like this film. It’s pretty good by any reasonable standards and it’s one of his better early works.
Fun early Cronenberg. Interesting to see so many of the themes he's obsessed with already there but they're all explored more entertainingly, insightfully and satisfyingly in some of his later films.
Not too bad. An improvement on Shivers. Competently made but it does drag a little.