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Title: Rabid (1977)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| 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 (as J. Roger Periard) | |
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Lynne Deragon | ... | Nurse Louise |
| Terry Schonblum | ... | Judy Glasberg | |
| Victor Désy | ... | Claude LaPointe | |
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Julie Anna | ... | Nurse Rita |
| Gary McKeehan | ... | Smooth Eddy | |
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Terence G. Ross | ... | Farmer |
| Miguel Fernandes | ... | Man In Cinema | |
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Robert O'Ree | ... | Police Sergeant |
In Camelford, while swinging his van across a narrow road to make a u-turn, a driver stalls the vehicle that does not restart. Hart Read is driving his motorcycle with his girlfriend Rose and he drives off the road to avoid the collision. Hart suffers minor injuries while Rosie is injured and burned by the flames when the motorcycle explodes. The ambulance from the nearby Keloid Clinic for Plastic Surgery brings the couple and Rose, who is in coma, is submitted to an emergency surgery and to an experimental plastic-surgery technique by Dr. Dan Keloid to retrieve her skin in the chest and abdomen. Hart is discharged but Rose stays in coma in the intensive care unit (ICU) to recover. Out of the blue, Rose awakens from her coma one month later and screams. A nurse helps her but is wounded by her and then he cannot remember what has happened. He is sent to a hospital in Montreal while Rose realizes that she needs to feed with blood. However her victims become zombie-like creatures. Rose ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The second big-screen feature from Canadian horror genius David Cronenberg was this twisted well-done low budgeter.
Following a motorcycle wreck, a young woman receives skin grafts that cause her to have a murderous thrust for blood - which leads to a deadly plague.
Rabid is one nicely done little shocker. It has a clever storyline that's a unique take on the vampire/zombie genres. The makeup work is gruesomely good, the atmosphere cold and fitting, and the low-budget ambiguously well used to create a horror film that was a bit ahead of its time. In addition the cast isn't bad. Star Marylin Chambers, though better known as a porn actress, does a decent performance as the victim of the strange infection. Frank Moore is also good as Chambers' boyfriend who must save her before disaster strikes.
While granted that Rabid isn't as great as the films that Cronenberg would later unleash (The Brood, Videodrome, Dead Zone etc.) it is never the less a solid sophomore effort that well-foreshadowed the greatness Cronenberg would achieve in his later films.
*** out of ****