Rabid (1977)
- Starring:
- Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, (more)
- Director(s):
- David Cronenberg
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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Synopsis of Rabid
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
Complete Cast of Rabid
- Marilyn Chambers - Rose
- Joe Silver - Murray Cypher
- Patricia Gage - Dr. Roxanne Keloid
- Roger Periard - Lloyd Walsh
- Victor Desy - Claude LaPointe
- Miguel Fernandes - Man in Cinema
- Harry Hill - Stasiuk
- Vlasta Vrana - Cop at Clinic
- John Gilbert - Dr. Royce Gentry
- Jerome Tiberghien - Dr. Carl
- Allan Moyle - Young Man in Lobby
- Riva Spier
- Peter MacNeill - Leader
- Gary McKeehan - Smooth Eddy
- Robert O'Ree - Police Sergeant
- Frank Moore - Hart Read
- Howard Ryshpan - Dr. Dan Keloid
- Susan Roman - Mindy Kent
- Tony Angelo - Dispatcher
- Richard W. Farrell - Camper Man
- Bob Girolami - Newscaster
- Una Kay - Jackie
- John Boylan - Young Cop in Plaza
- Louis Negin - Maxim
- Murray Smith - Interviewer
- Mark Walker - Steve
- Denis Lacroix - Drunken Indian
- Kirk McColl - Desk Sergeant
- Jack Messinger - Policeman on Highway
- Director(s):
- David Cronenberg
- Writer(s):
- David Cronenberg
- Producer(s):
- John Dunning
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Nudity, Adult Situations, Gore, Graphic Violence)
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