rabid

• Director: David Cronenberg
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Horror
• Movie Type: Sex Horror
• Themes: Experiments Gone Awry, Mutants, Plagues and Epidemics
• Main Cast: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, Patricia Gage
• Release Year: 1977
• Country: CA/US
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• MPAA Rating: R

Plot

For his second commercial feature, following a pair of experimental films and 1977's Shivers, Canadian horror auteur David Cronenberg continued to mine the themes of disease and mutation that were already becoming his perennial concerns. Marilyn Chambers stars as Rose, an attractive young woman who becomes horribly injured in a motorcycle accident. Spirited away to the clinic of Drs. Dan and Roxanne Keloid (Howard Ryshpan and Patricia Gage), a pair of experimental plastic surgeons, Rose becomes an unwitting guinea pig in an operation that grafts genetically modified tissue into her body. Waking from her coma to find she is unable to ingest normal food, Rose unwittingly feeds on human blood by means of a phallic organ that emerges from a vulval orifice in her armpit. Within hours of providing Rose with sustenance, her victims fall prey to an incurable, highly contagious disease that turns them into raving lunatics who foam at the mouth and attack others indiscriminately. Soon, Montreal is under martial law, but nobody can find the Typhoid Mary whose vampiric urges are driving the epidemic -- not even Hart (Frank Moore), Rose's befuddled boyfriend. Although she is best-known for her starring role in the crossover porn epic Behind the Green Door, Chambers actually received her start in features with 1970's The Owl and the Pussycat. Rabid also stars TV and stage veteran Joe Silver as Murray Cypher, a mutual friend of Hart and the Keloids. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Marilyn Chambers - Rose
• Frank Moore - Hart Read
• Joe Silver - Murray Cypher
• Howard Ryshpan - Dr. Dan Keloid
• Patricia Gage - Dr. Roxanne Keloid

Susan Roman - Mindy Kent; Roger Periard - Lloyd Walsh; Tony Angelo - Dispatcher; Victor Desy - Claude LaPointe; Richard W. Farrell - Camper Man; Miguel Fernandes - Man in Cinema; Bob Girolami - Newscaster; Harry Hill - Stasiuk; Una Kay - Jackie; Denis Lacroix - Drunken Indian; Peter MacNeill - Leader; Kirk McColl - Desk Sergeant; Gary McKeehan - Smooth Eddy; Jack Messinger - Policeman on Highway; Robert O'Ree - Police Sergeant; Riva Spier; Vlasta Vrana - Cop at Clinic; Mark Walker - Steve; Allan Moyle - Young Man in Lobby; Murray Smith - Interviewer; Jerome Tiberghien - Dr. Carl; Louis Negin - Maxim; John Gilbert - Dr. Royce Gentry; John Boylan - Young Cop in Plaza

Credit

Claude Marchand - Art Director, Daniel Goldberg - Associate Producer, Don Carmody - Co-producer, Erla Gliserman - Costume Designer, David Cronenberg - Director, Jean Lafleur - Editor, Andre Link - Executive Producer, Ivan Reitman - Executive Producer, Byrd Holland - Makeup, Mireille Recton - Makeup, Joe Blasco - Makeup Special Effects, René Verzier - Cinematographer, John Dunning - Producer, Albert Griswold - Special Effects, David Cronenberg - Screenwriter, Andrew Deskin - Assistant Properties

Similar Movies

Brain Damage; The Brood; Parasite; Shivers; The Crazies; The Addiction; Crimes of the Future; Sisters

adj.

1. Of or affected by rabies.
2. Raging; uncontrollable: rabid thirst.
3. Extremely zealous or enthusiastic; fanatical: a rabid football fan.

[Latin rabidus, from rabere, to rave.]

rabidity ra·bid'i·ty (rə-bĭd'ĭ-tē, ră-) or rab'id·ness (răb'ĭd-nĭs) n.
rabidly rab'id·ly adv.

adjective

1. Showing or having enthusiasm: ardent, enthusiastic, fervent, keen¹, mad, warm, zealous. Informal crazy. Slang gung ho, nuts. See concern/unconcern.
2. Holding especially political views that deviate drastically and fundamentally from conventional or traditional beliefs: extreme, extremist, fanatic, fanatical, radical, revolutionary, ultra. Slang far-out. See concern/unconcern, edge/center, politics.
3. Full of or marked by extreme anger: furious, irate, ireful, wrathful. Idioms: fit to be tied, foaming at the mouth, in aragetemper, in a towering rage. See feelings.

adj

Definition: very angry; maniacal
Antonyms: delighted, happy, pleased

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IN BRIEF: Affected with hydrophobia. Also: Very violent or furious.

If a bat is seen flying during the day, it is very possible that it is rabid.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - rabiat, som har hundegalskab

Nederlands (Dutch)
razend, doldriftig, met hondsdolheid besmet, te maken hebbend met hondsdolheid

Français (French)
adj. - (Vét) enragé, fanatique

Deutsch (German)
adj. - tollwütig, fanatisch

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - λυσσασμένος, (μτφ.) λυσσαλέος, μανιώδης, έξαλλος

Italiano (Italian)
idrofobo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - furioso

Русский (Russian)
бешеный, мучительный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - rabioso, feroz, furioso

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - rabiesmittad, spritt språngande galen

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
猛烈的, 急进的, 热烈的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 猛烈的, 急進的, 熱烈的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 맹렬한, 광견병에 걸린, 미친 듯이

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 狂信的な, 過激な, 激しい, 猛烈な, 気違いじみた, 狂暴な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) ضار, عنيف, كلب مصاب بدا الكلب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮שוטה (כלב), נגוע-כלבת, קיצוני, לוהט, קנאי, אלים‬

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