Picking up where the taboo-busting Shivers left off, Rabid is the next-level iteration of Cronenberg’s obsession with sexual body violence in the form of a late-nite creature feature.  After a motorcycle accident, former adult film star Marilyn Chambers wakes up in a hospital with new skin and a new appetite.  As the city of Montréal is transformed into an incubator for gunk-spewing vampires, the ghostly Chambers finds herself at war with her body and the world.  This is a young Cronenberg firing on all cylinders.  Featuring a focused and intense performance from Chambers, clever statements on vanity and greed, and a grotesque lil’ beastie who looks like a penis with teeth, Rabid is a high-water mark in lysergic horror.  This includes the show-stopping scene that involves a machine gun and Santa Claus.

“A delight(fully disgusting) sleazy/cerebral combination that only Cronenberg can deliver.” — Stacie Ponder, FINAL GIRL

“Cronenberg casts [Chambers] in a different kind of skin flick, and allows her to weaponise her seductive charms and to penetrate those who would do the same to her – all in the service of an animalistic lust (for blood) that is Insatiable…” – Anton Bitel, Projected Figures

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