Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
Breakinger
A Brilliant Conflict
gwnightscream
David Cronenberg's 1977 sci-fi/horror film stars Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore and Joe Silver. This begins with woman, Rose (Chambers) riding a motorcycle with her boyfriend, Hart (Moore). They get into an accident and Rose goes into a coma, but needs immediate surgery. A month later, she awakens with a lethal appendage craving blood. When she starts feeding on strangers, an infectious, epidemic spreads. The late, Silver plays Hart's friend, Murray. This isn't bad, the late, Chambers was good in this and there's gruesome make-up effects. I'd give this a try.
Leofwine_draca
An effective early effort from director David Cronenberg, RABID is a disturbing tale of a city overtaken by disease and fear. A cast of unknowns work hard to make this film seem as morally depressing and hauntingly realistic as possible, and the low, almost documentary style film making and the use of Canadian cities as a setting really work in its favour. The film deals with the subject of disease - something akin to rabies in this case - spreading through a city. It starts off with small isolated attacks but soon the city is put under martial law and the infected people are being shot on sight. Disease films are a frequent fixture in Hollywood - take OUTBREAK for example - and RABID is stylish and entertaining enough, in a low budget way, to warrant repeat viewings.Marilyn Chambers I found at first to be pretty annoying. A former porn star (as the box so proudly proclaims), she has a habit of removing her top in this film, but displays precious few acting talents. However her performance grew on me as the film progressed and she even becomes quite moving at the end of the tale; her offbeat acting style makes her in some ways quietly unforgettable. The rest of the cast have little to do, while the male lead looks strangely like Christopher Walken (who went on to star in Cronenberg's THE DEAD ZONE in 1983). However all involved turn in performances that are at the least adequate.The special effects are kept to a minimum in this film, with the 'star' of the show being a strange, pulsating tube which comes out of Chambers' armpit to suck the blood of her victims. This typical Cronenbergian image is pretty sick to watch but it's what you come to expect when you're a fan of the director. There are a few explosions and shootings to keep things moving along (the shootings are all violent scenes - the best taking place in a police station and involving a contaminated police officer and his companions all armed with shotguns - it's quick, blunt, and cuts straight to the point).The attacks on unsuspecting strangers by rabid, foaming maniacs are perpetrated throughout the film and are all handled with such style that you can't help but look forward to the next one (as sick as that may sound). All this and a downbeat ending help to make RABID a small, but nonetheless powerful, outing for Cronenberg, which is a must see for any fan of his. The film is at its best when it focuses on the spread of the disease and it does pack lots of horrifying vignettes into the running time, like the bit with the machine-gunned Santa Claus. I find that it outdoes Romero's THE CRAZIES in terms of pure effectiveness.
SnoopyStyle
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.
Uriah43
"Rose" (Marilyn Chambers) and her boyfriend, "Hart Read" (Frank Moore) are riding around on a motorcycle when they crash in a vacant field in the country. Fortunately for them, there is a cosmetic surgery clinic nearby which takes them in. Hart suffers a few broken bones and is taken from the clinic to another hospital about 3 hours away. Rose, on the other hand, is in much more serious condition and the decision is made to perform emergency surgery at the clinic. Since she has suffered severe burns and abrasions the doctor, "Dr. Dan Keloid" decides to use an experimental treatment to facilitate her recovery. This treatment turns Rose into a vampiric carrier of a disease which transfers from her to her victims when she drinks their blood. Unlike Rose, however, her victims display symptoms similar to rabies but with a much shorter incubation period. Soon the virus spreads to Montreal and drastic measures take effect. Anyway, while there are some very good films made recently that are better than this, it should be noted that this film was made over 35 years ago and didn't have the computer graphics or special effects that we now enjoy today. Even so, the acting was sufficient and the director (David Cronenberg) managed to show as much of Marilyn Chambers as was probably permissible during this time. I have no complaints about that. All and all then, this wasn't a bad film and I give it an average rating.
