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Rabid

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• Horror
• Sci-fi

• 1976
• David Cronenberg
• 86 mins
• X

Summary

Horror starring Marilyn Chambers. Badly injured in a motorcycle crash, Rose is taken to the nearby plastic surgery clinic of Dr Keloid. After extensive operations, she recovers but is left with an overpowering appetite for blood.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

John Ferguson

Another formative exercise in fear and loathing of the human body from director David Cronenberg, which takes up the themes of his first "mainstream" (in the loosest sense of the word) success Shivers. This time a plague spreads after accident victim Marilyn Chambers (a porn star in a rare, er, straight role) becomes the unwitting carrier of a rabid disease that turns people into bloodsuckers. This disturbing film lacks the stomach-churning claustrophobia of Shivers, but is an altogether slicker affair, and the spiralling, random violence still shocks.

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6.3/10

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Cast

rolenameRoseMarilyn ChambersHart ReadFrank MooreMurray CypherJoe SilverDr Dan KeloidHoward RyshpanDr Roxanne KeloidPatricia GageMindy KentSusan RomanLloyd WalshJ Roger PeriardNurse LouiseLynne DeragonJudy GlasbergTerry SchonblumClaude LapointeVictor DésyRitaJulie AnnaSmooth EddyGary McKeehanDr CarlJerome TiberghienDr Royce GentryJohn Gilbert (3)JackieUna KayBeatrice OwenMadeline PageauSteveMark Walker

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rolenameDirectorDavid Cronenberg

Details

Theatrical distributor

Alpha Films Ltd

Languages

English

Guidance

Contains violence and nudity.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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