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Rabid

1977

David Cronenberg

Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, Susan Roman ...

5.8

3,305

Horror. Thriller A young woman develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood-thirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a city-wide epidemic.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Cronenbergs sleaziest, funniest film, jammed with juicy gore and infectious shocks (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ryan Lambie Den of Geek	"I wouldn’t place 'Rabid' particularly highly in the rankings of Cronenberg’s great movies, but as is always the case, it’s filled with enough crazy images and unsettling moments to make it worth watching"	NEU
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"[It] lacks the concentrated, streamlined containment of 'Shivers', but it’s funnier and more assured, with set pieces that astutely connote a collapse of infrastructure"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"A virtual remake of 'Shivers', 'Rabid' finds director David Cronenberg more in control of his narrative and his visual style than in his previous films, but the results are still somewhat uneven (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"None of the other recent apocalypse movies has shown so much political or cinematic sophistication"	POS

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