I looked for it for a while, and finally found it, and bought it, and watched it, then put it on my shelf and never viewed it again and that was like 1 year ago or so. Its a decent movie there could have been more excitemnt more rabid people and more blood thye movie is actually quit boring not scary just regular. Its the type of movie you watch and wait and nothing really great happens at all. Rent it first.
Before Rage, there was Rabid
This Canadian horror film, directed by visionary horror-meister David Cronenberg, is quit underrated and ahead of its time. Rabid comes off at times almost like a vampire flick but it is actually much closer to a zombie/killer epidemic movie like 28 Days Later or Dawn of the Dead. A biker girl named Rose is involved in a devastating accident and is subject to an experimental treatment in synthetic cell regeneration and grafting. The only problem is it gives her a parasitic organ which she uses to drain other people's blood. And what's worse, these people, when infected, are stricken with a deadly new form of human rabies which turns ordinary people into blood-thirsty psychotic animals.
This is a disturbing and well made apocalypse film. What's perhaps most unsettling is the fact that there are no real bad guys or outright guilty parties in the disaster(government, military, etc.). The scientists who created the rage virus in 28 Days Later where obviously megalomaniacal government drones who paid no attention to the hazards of their creation, whereas the scientists and doctors in Rabid are simply trying to help people and the terrible effect of the synthetic skin graft treatment was not expected by them. It all helps create a pessimistic sense of doom and destruction.
A horror film with a great story.
I allways thought David Cronenberg was a very underrated director ,his films are mostly about human diseases or weird transformations this is about a virus that infects a small population of people in Canada. Rose played by Marilyn Chambers is brought into a hospital after suffering through a motorcycle accident with her boyfreind ,the doctors at the hospital soon realise that there is a posibility of doing an experiment on her by using a skin grafting operation on Rose ,what they don't realise is the experiment has gone wrong and it seems that Rose has a thirst for blood kind of like a vampire but she uses a stinger underneath her armpits.
As soon as she leaves the hospital she ends up infecting everyone that comes to her path including a doctor who is preped up for surgery but then gets infected and chops a nurses fingers in half, overall I think that the film was great but not as good as Cronenbergs other films like Videodrome or shivers. What I like about Cronenberg films is that he is always seriuos about the horror films that he does and doesn't add humor to them like other directors like Wes Craven or Tobe Hooper, I hope you enjoy this film like the way I did.
"If this picture doesn't make you scream and squirm, you should see a psychiatrist--quick!" shouts the film's trailer. This time the hyperbole is right. David Cronenberg's debut feature, and Canada's first domestic horror film, is an ingeniously engineered slasher of thoroughly modern horror that, like George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos. A genetically engineered designer parasite--part aphrodisiac, part venereal disease--created by a modern-day mad scientist escapes into a colorless, self-contained apartment complex and goes searching for hosts. This monstrous parasite multiplies and invades the alienated occupants, turning them into a pack of id-driven sex maniacs. Cronenberg's suffocating vision of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Paul Hampton - Joe Silver Director(s): David Cronenberg DVD Release Date: Released the 14 August 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Arguably the best and most personal of director David Cronenberg's early films, The Brood is an extremely unsettling horror film about familial disintegration and emotional trauma taken to a monstrous extreme. Art Hindle (Black Christmas) stars as a man embroiled in a bitter custody struggle with his estranged wife (Samantha Eggar), who is undergoing therapy at psychiatrist Oliver Reed's controversial institute. Reed's treatment causes his patients to give form to their inner conflicts, and Eggar--whose psyche is at the boiling point from childhood abuse as well as the custody trial--creates a horde of homicidal humanoid children who enact bloody revenge on anyone who has threatened their "mother." Cronenberg's first feature with name actors and composer Howard Shore has its... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Oliver Reed - Samantha Eggar Director(s): David Cronenberg DVD Release Date: Released the 26 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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David Cronenberg's 1981 horror film is a darkly paranoid story of a homeless man (Stephen Lack) mistakenly believed to be insane, when in fact he can't turn off the sound of other people's thoughts in his telepathic mind. Helped by a doctor (Patrick McGoohan) and enlisted in a program of "scanners"--telepaths who also can will heads to explode--he becomes involved in a battle against nefarious forces. A number of critics consider this to be Cronenberg's first great film, and indeed it has a serious vision of destiny that rivals some of the important German expressionist works from the silent cinema. Lack is very good as the odd hero, and McGoohan is effectively eccentric and chilly as the scientist who saves him from the street, only to thrust him into a terrible struggle. --Tom... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jennifer O'Neill - Stephen Lack - Patrick McGoohan Director(s): David Cronenberg DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The Dead Zone is based on a novel by Stephen King, directed by David Cronenberg (Scanners, The Fly) and produced by Debra Hill (Halloween, The Fog). Such a trio of horror vets would be expected to come up with an evening of shocks and gore, but The Dead Zone is a surprise. While it has great atmospheric eeriness and undeniably scary moments, The Dead Zone is at heart a sensitive and thoughtful portrayal of main character Johnny Smith's dilemma. Christopher Walken, king of the vaguely creepy, plays Smith, a man who awakens from a five-year coma with the very mixed blessing of second sight. At the mere touch of a hand, Smith is unwillingly launched into scenes of past and future terror. (Director Cronenberg is said to have fired blanks from... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Christopher Walken - Brooke Adams Director(s): David Cronenberg DVD Release Date: Released the 19 September 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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An early departure from director David Cronenberg's canon of visceral horror, 1979's Fast Company profiles one of his personal passions, racecars, in a gritty melodrama that also features exciting racetrack footage. Veteran toughguy William Smith is top-billed as a champion drag racer who clashes with the unscrupulous oil-company executive (John Saxon) who sponsors his team. Though lacking the gruesome clinical obsessions of his horror features (Cronenberg admits on the disc's commentary that the film was a tax shelter for its Canadian producers), Fast Company is also fascinated with internal machinery (here, car engines instead of human bodies), and it's easily Cronenberg's most approachable film, with plenty of automotive action alongside the solid performances (the cast... More Info about this DVD Director(s): David Cronenberg DVD Release Date: Released the 27 April 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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