One of David Cronenberg's most successful early films, Rabid features porn star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who becomes infected with a virus after an operation. As result she grows a kind of phallus with which she penetrates her victims as she sucks their blood and thus the disease spreads rapidly. The film displays all Cronenberg's usual horrified fascination with the human body and its sexual function. Looking back, it can be read as a kind of parable about AIDS, but it works perfectly well as an effective low-budget shocker. On the DVD: the widescreen image on... the DVD is acceptable quality, as is the sound. The fairly routine extras consist of excerpts from a TV interview with Cronenberg, lasting about 10 minutes; a collection of stills from the film; some written notes by horror expert Kim Newman that give useful background, though in part reproduce what is said in the interview; full filmographies for Cronenberg and the three principal performers, including a long list of Chambers' porn credits. --Ed Buscombe [show more]
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Canadian horror written and directed by David Cronenberg. When Rose (Marilyn Chambers) is involved in a motorcycle crash in a remote area of Quebec, she is taken to a local research centre where she receives emergency treatment. Rose survives, but with an unexpected condition - she is now carrying a new strain of rabies which she passes on to her victims using a stinger which has developed in a small orifice under her arm. The cast also includes Frank Moore, Joe Silver and Howard Ryspan.
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