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10 August 1984 (USA)
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(3 articles)
Looking back at David Cronenberg’s Rabid
(From Den of Geek. 29 March 2012, 5:01 AM, PDT)
Daily Viewing. Telaroli on Cronenberg
(From MUBI. 24 January 2012, 1:22 AM, PST)
Can You Handle the Trip Beyond the Black Rainbow?
(From Ugo Movies. 25 April 2011, 11:00 AM, PDT)
(From Den of Geek. 29 March 2012, 5:01 AM, PDT)
Daily Viewing. Telaroli on Cronenberg
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Can You Handle the Trip Beyond the Black Rainbow?
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Unremarkable student film.
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(in credits order) (verified as complete) | Ronald Mlodzik | ... | Adrian Tripod |
| Jon Lidolt | ||
| Tania Zolty | ||
| Jack Messinger | ||
| Paul Mulholland | ||
| William Haslam | ||
| Willem Poolman | (as William Poolman) | |
| Stefen Czernecki | ||
| Raymond Woodley | (as Ray Woodley) | |
| Kaspars Dzeguze | ||
| Iain Ewing | ||
| Brian Linehan | ||
| Leland Richard | ||
| Norman Snider | ||
| Stephen Zeifman | ||
| William Wine | ||
| Bruce Martin | ||
| Don Owen | ||
| Udo Kasemets | ||
| Sheldon Cohen | ||
| George Gibbins | ||
| Rafe Macpherson | ||
| Aus von Blicke | (as Count Aus von Blicke) |
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| David Cronenberg | |||
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| David Cronenberg | ||
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| David Cronenberg | .... | producer | |
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| David Cronenberg | |||
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| David Cronenberg | |||
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| Jon Lidolt | .... | title designer | |
| Stefan Nosko | .... | production assistant | |
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- New Cinema Enterprises (1974) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Alliance Atlantis Home Video (2004) (Canada) (DVD)
- Blue Underground (2004) (USA) (DVD)
- Criterion Collection, The (1996) (laserdisc)
- Criterion Collection, The (1998) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
- Filmfreak Distributie (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
- Image Entertainment (1989) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
- Pan Vision Oy (2006) (Finland) (DVD)
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Referenced in "The Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg (#1.10)" (1999)See more »
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I'd like to preface this review by saying I'm a big fan of Cronenberg and have seen and enjoyed many of his films (M. Butterfly, Eastern Promises, History of Violence, eXistenZ, Videodrome, etc.). With that out of the way, this movie does not, in any sense, stand up to any of his later work -- poor acting, ridiculously drawn out scenes that do nothing to advance the plot, similar sequences needlessly repeated 3 or 4 times, pretentious psychobabble narration, and, to top it off, the movie is shot entirely on a university campus with a budget of what I'd estimate to be less than 5 dollars.
Although the movie is short at 70 minutes, very little actually happens. The length and sparseness of the scenes seem to betray that Cronenberg was desperately trying to fill out time by stringing footage together -- one scene that stands out in my mind involves an unnamed character repeatedly removing and replacing socks and underwear from a leather bag for no apparent reason.
If this movie wasn't directed, written, and edited by Cronenberg, whose later work truly is stellar, it would have certainly been forgotten as a standard or even totally sub par student film.