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Rabid

Picking up where his taboo-busting SHIVERS left off, RABID is the next-level iteration of David Cronenbergs obsession with sexual body horror as a late-nite creature feature.

Former adult film star Marilyn Chambers plays a woman who, after a motorcycle accident, wakes up in a hospital with new skin and a new appetite. As the city of Montréal transforms into an incubator for gunk-spewing vampires, the ghostly Chambers finds herself at war with her body and the world.

RABID is young Cronenberg firing on all cylinders. Featuring a focused and intense performance from Chambers, clever statements on vanity / greed and a grotesque lil beastie that looks like a penis with teeth, RABID is a high-water mark in lysergic horror. This includes the show-stopping scene involving a machine gun and Santa Claus!

"By reveling in the underbelly, Cronenberg shows that even respectable public spaces are a breath away from chaos. In one sequence, Rose hits the mall, a lurid, neon-Christmas rush Cronenberg did more than anyone to make Canada cool, not by creating something new, but by teasing out the dark waves that already color the country. Its cold up here, and spooky. Cronenbergs gift in Rabid is exposing just how spooky." - MUBI