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Rabid
1977
David Cronenberg's horror film stars adult film icon Marilyn Chambers as a motorcycle bad-girl who gets into an accident and undergoes an operation. A gaping sore develops under her arm and soon she's guzzling all the blood she can get her hands on. Her unsuspecting victims become infected with a rabies-like disease and are .. Read more
| Starring | Marilyn Chambers, Joe Silver, Patricia Gage, Susan Roman |
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| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Genres | Horror |
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Rabid
David Cronenberg's horror film stars adult film icon Marilyn Chambers as a motorcycle bad-girl who gets into an accident and undergoes an operation. A gaping sore develops under her arm and soon she's guzzling all the blood she can get her hands on. Her unsuspecting victims become infected with a rabies-like disease and are transformed into bloodsucking ghouls.
| Starring | Marilyn Chambers, Joe Silver, Patricia Gage, Susan Roman, Victor Desy, Gary McKeehan, Frank Moore, J. Roger Periard, Howard Ryshpan |
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| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Studio | PRISM LEISURE |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 31 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 06 Jan 2003 Production year: 1977 |
| Format | DVD |
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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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As a maker of sci-fi/horror movies, Cronenberg seems obsessed with the links between sex and violence as well as the... read more on Time Out
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13 out of 16 people found this review helpful
Killer pits!
With a plot that focuses on a woman with blood sucking arm-pits you?d think this film would have a lot going for it (well I did!). However what you get is a rather sub-par flick that lacks any real punch and to be truthful probably only attracted an audience in the 70s because of the presence of porn starlet Marilyn Chambers. Although to be fair to Ms Chambers she?s the only one that turns in a decent performance, since most of the cast seem to be either uninterested or, if in Frank Moore?s case, try not to be mistaken for being part of scenery.
The film does have some interesting moments (the whole ?phallic? arm-pit thing certainly provides an interesting talking point) but the film is poorly paced and a little more than frayed around the edges. However, if you are a Cronenberg fan then I suppose it's worth checking out to see the influences on his earlier work and how he has developed certain themes. Otherwise it provides a decent enough watch to pass an hour or so away and you get the added bonus of seeing Ms Chambers in all her naked glory.
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Shivers part 2?
David Cronenburgs second horror film is still noticeably low budget, but is a slightly slicker affair than Shivers. Unfortunately the storyline is uncomforably similar to that of his first film - in Shivers experimental organ transplants led to insane sex-mad zombies, here experimental skin grafting turns people into blood-crazed zombies, and it ends up as more of a variation on a theme than an original movie. There are some nice moments of typically Cronenburg body horror when the heroine starts sprouting an underarm bloodsucking organ, and a nice uncommericial bleak ending, but the storyline seems a little uncomfortably torn between being a modern day vampire story and a George Romero style zombie outbreak disaster film. Interesting and watchable for fans of the director, but by no means a classic.
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Rabid
David Cronenberg's horror film stars adult film icon Marilyn Chambers as a motorcycle bad-girl who gets into an accident and undergoes an operation. A gaping sore develops under her arm and soon she's guzzling all the blood she can get her hands on. Her unsuspecting victims become infected with a ...
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