This little film was very well made & on an obvious tiny budget but still had shocks & scares & some cool scenes!!! Rabid has a BEAUTIFUL musical score it's really LOVELY!!! Realistically there was no "great" performances but hey this is just a fun gritty infection Horror Thriller film & nothing more!!! Cool to know that the excellent Ivan reitman was producer on this & this is very well directed by david & the rabid people look cool like i said it's just a low-budget bit of gross fun & nothing more it's not a masterpiece but it is excellent & very rewatchable, I love these 70s & 80s Horror flicks so i enjoyed this lots & would make a cool double feature with Shivers

After a motorcycling accident with her boyfriend, Rose (played by porn actress Marilyn Chambers) is sent immediately to the hospital. While there, she is given plastic surgery, only to end up in a temporary coma. Everything changes as she wakes up one night and brutally attacks one of the doctors. It then gets worse as she, not only leaves him wounded, but also infected in some way. All hell eventually breaks loose as the infection finally spreads.First of all, I did go into this movie with high expectations. About five minutes in, I was somewhat expectations a slasher film; granted, I did watch the trailer for this, so that obviously that wasn't what I was going to get. And that slasher film, again obviously, was a different movie, so that definitely wasn't the case. What I did get was, there I say again, underwhelming. The good: Marilyn Chambers is attractive, I will admit that. And the build up of every scene is on point. I'll also admit that the makeup effects are, for the most part, spot on. The bad: the acting and the pacing, mostly the acting. While not the worst, I'm sorry but the acting was not on point at all. As for the pacing, I can't put my finger on it, but most of the scenes felt way dragged on.Let me just say that this is not the first David Cronenberg film I have seen, technically that would go the remake of The Fly. Two other films of his that I have tried to make it through were were Shivers and Scanners, two yet completely overrated other horror films. With all that said, do I recommend this one? Of course not!

After a near-fatal motorbike accident, Rose (Marilyn Chambers) undergoes experimental skin-graft surgery to help her recover from the horrific wounds she had inflicted. Luckily for her, and surprising to most of her doctors, her body takes to the transplants and starts an immediate recovery. However, the surgery has left her with a strange orifice under her armpit which contains a stringer. She is soon seducing men and infecting them, leaving her victims in a shocked state and unable to remember anything. An outbreak is soon on the cards as the infected go on a biting rampage, spreading a strange disease which causing the host to turn rabid and zombie- like.Only his fourth feature, and only his second horror after Shivers (1975), this is not Canadian director David Cronenberg's finest achievement. But thankfully, a bulk Cronenberg's filmography is outstanding and Rabid is still an extremely effective little horror film. The infected are a mixture of zombies and vampires, although they aren't really either by definition, but Cronenberg uses them as well as anyone could hope for. The film is little more than a series of set-pieces, but one in particular, involving a woman on a packed trained slowly coming to the realisation that one of the infected is on board, is as good a scene depicting sheer terror and panic as I've ever seen.Of course, this being Cronenberg, undertones of psychosexuality run throughout. It's no coincidence that the orifice underneath Rose's armpit looks like a vagina, and no surprise that it attacks with a phallic stinger. Rose's sexuality is her real weapon, as it lures her victims close enough for the attack. Whether it be a fear of women or a warning about progressive plastic surgery that her character is trying to articulate, ex-porn star Marilyn Chambers handles her role extremely well. Though she is naked for the most part, she convinces as a seemingly nice girl turned sexual predator. Cronenberg would translate similar themes into better films and he would go on to develop body horror into a true art-form, but Rabid is an accomplished early effort.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

Adult film superstar Marilyn Chambers stars as Rose, a young woman who gets into a horrific motorcycle accident in the opening minutes. As it happens, she's close by a cutting edge surgery clinic, who perform an emergency operation on her. Unfortunately, this radical surgery has terrible, unforeseen side effects. Rose develops an insatiable hankering for human blood, and her various victims go out and create victims of their own. Soon, a full scale epidemic is overtaking the city of Montreal, and Rose goes about not knowing that she's become the carrier of this plague.Due to the substantial controversy surrounding writer / director David Cronenbergs' breakthrough film, "Shivers", funding for this sophomore effort was refused. Therefore, the producers had to get creatively devious and cross-finance "Rabid" with another production. The budget was approximately $565,000, a definite increase from the $185,000 or so used to make "Shivers". This enables Cronenberg to open up the scope of his action; he's not just confined to a high rise apartment here but a whole city. This also allows him and his crew to do some impressive vehicular stunts.An early example of what has come to be known as "infection cinema", Cronenberg wanted a vampire tale (of sorts) that would have a basis in reality and not fantasy. And while the filmmaking here is not as slick and polished as what we would soon see from the director, he always manages to make something that is at least *interesting*. The bad news is that, like "Shivers", he must deal with the debit of an insipid leading man, in this case Frank Moore as Hart, Roses' boyfriend.The makeup effects by Joe Blasco and Byrd Holland are top notch, the use of locations is excellent, and executive producer Ivan Reitman does a fine job of utilizing stock music.Chambers's role doesn't require her to do a whole lot of acting, but she's good in scenes requiring her to be seductive. Cronenberg had wanted Sissy Spacek for the role, having seen her in "Badlands", but the producers insisted that he use Chambers, who at the time would have had more name value. (At one point Chambers walks past a poster for "Carrie".) The supporting cast features a number of familiar performers for fans of Cronenberg and Canadian cinema: Joe Silver, Gary McKeehan, Miguel Fernandes, Vlasta Vrana, Peter MacNeill, Robert A. Silverman, and Riva Spier.As an entry in the "body horror" portion of its directors' career, "Rabid" is good fun in the way it depicts a nightmarish scenario that just gets out of control.Seven out of 10.