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Rabid
After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood—the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
Release : | 1977 |
Rating : | 6.3 |
Studio : | Canadian Film Development Corporation, Cinépix Film Properties (CFP), Cinema Entertainment Enterprises, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Assistant Property Master, |
Cast : | Marilyn Chambers Terri Hanauer Frank Moore Joe Silver Patricia Gage |
Genre : | Horror Science Fiction |
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Instant Favorite.
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
As big of a name that David Cronenberg is in the horror scene, then I can't really claim to be a fan of everything that he touches. I have never heard about "Rabid" before I happened to stumble upon in this late in 2017. I read the synopsis and it sounded like something that could potentially be alright, as it did have that zombiesque vibe to it.I managed to endure 30 minutes of "Rabid" before I gave up out of sheer and utter boredom. I actually found myself with my mobile phone in my hand and was playing a game while watching this movie. Yeah, it was that boring to me.From what I managed to see during the 30 minutes that I sat through, then there was nothing appealing or interesting here that fell into my taste and preference. So I can in all honesty say that I am not going to return to watch "Rabid" later on in order to finish it.As for the cast and their acting talents, well, I can't really complain about anything here. The acting seemed adequate considering that the movie was from 1977 and given the limitations of the script and storyline imposed on them."Rabid" didn't really make much use of special effects in the 30 minutes that I managed to endure. So whether or not the movie actually did well on the effects department, that I cannot make a proper statement about.This was a rather bland and uneventful 30 minutes that I will never get back. And from what I saw, then my rating of "Rabid" is a meager 3 out of 10 stars, and I do feel somewhat large and generous here actually. The movie cover boasted "Pray it doesn't happen to you", which actually happened to summarize the feeling of having to sit down to watch the movie quite well.
Too similar to Shivers, which has superior special effects and builds tension with more skill. Of the nine Cronenberg features I've seen, Rabid is easily the worst. Rabid contains a scene that denigrates Native Canadians for no point other than a cheap and lousy gag.
While cycling through Canada, a woman severely injured in a crash near a hospital learns that the radical surgical procedure to replace her damaged skin has resulted in a vampiric creature on her arm and creating others like her, forcing them to track them down and destroy them.This one was a pretty pleasant surprise. The majority of the good points is mostly due to its scattering of select scenes that come off as entertaining which come from the action scenes that come into play when the film gets going. From the open crash on the road to her waking up in the hospital and attacking the different patients and staff as well as the quick ambushes she gets in with the various members of the community in the barn, a neighborhood pool and inside the truckers' cab, this one here has plenty of great action scenes that keep the interest levels pretty strong. There's also the greatness of the film's signature moment, where a creature manages to make uncontrolled chaos in a crowded shopping mall which is sheer delight and manages to hold on to a few good gore gags to help it out which goes great with the various assaults on the countryside strangers that provide the film's main gore quotient to the work of the authorities to calm the various creatures spawned that have come out of the situation. There's also the fact that this one decides on having the different idea of introducing the creature that will transmit the disease rather than feed, as it makes for a strong series of dueling story lines focusing on her degenerating condition in the beginning and the outpouring of the investigation into the disease and the followers afterward. Another good thing this has going for it is the plentiful nudity going on, and with the nice gore in here from the new and quite unique prospect of the actual position of the appendage on her coming into play are what make the film entertaining. This one here doesn't really have many flaws, but they are present. One of the main ones is the fact that this one has a really slow-going second-half, right when there shouldn't be one. This section of the film is concerned with very few good ideas at the point where the disease seems to spread, and there's a lot of little shoot-overs to the couple arguing in the apartment complex that really just hopes that there's enough in it are there for the taking up of time from the other areas that could've used the time. There's also the fact that this one has a really weak ending that completely plays down what it could've done. This one really could've used a big finale compared to what it threw up before it, and to end it with such a really depressing ending really doesn't fare too well. It hurts the film somewhat, and combined with the other flaws, are all that can be lowered on the film.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity and Language.
Rose (Marilyn Chambers) is injured in a motorcycle accident. Doctor Dan Keloid performs an experimental grafting surgery. A growth in her armpit becomes a dangerous stinger which she uses to suck the blood. Her victims turn into crazed flesh eating zombies who then spreads the disease. Soon she escapes the hospital and it spreads into the city.This is an earlier Cronenberg. It's got some of his body horror style. While the armpit monster gets the headlines, the leg skin is actually quite gruesome. Marilyn Chambers' acting is better than expected but it's by no means great. She's good enough to be in a B-horror. None of the other characters stand out and it's hard to feel the horror.