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Rabid

Rabid

Horror · Science Fiction · 1977

A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into bloodthirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.

Movie details

Rabid

“You can't trust your mother, your best friend, the neighbor next door…One minute they're perfectly normal, the next…RABID!”

1977 Horror · Science Fiction 1h 31m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.3 / 10

Community rating

A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into bloodthirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

David Cronenberg

Written by

David Cronenberg

Marilyn Chambers

Marilyn Chambers

Rose

Terri Hanauer

Terri Hanauer

Judy Glasberg

Frank Moore

Frank Moore

Hart Read

Joe Silver

Joe Silver

Murray Cypher

Howard Ryshpan

Howard Ryshpan

Dr. Dan Keloid

Patricia Gage

Patricia Gage

Dr. Roxanne Keloid

Susan Roman

Susan Roman

Mindy Kent

Court is in session

Put Rabid on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.