Stars: Marilyn Chambers, Joe Silver, Patricia Gage, Susan Roman, Victor Desy, Gary McKeehan, Frank Moore, J. Roger Periard, Howard Ryshpan

Director: David Cronenberg

Summary: After a motorcycle accident Rose undergoes emergency surgery. But when she eventually wakens she has a ravenous appetite... for blood.

David Cronenberg's horror film stars adult film icon Marilyn Chambers as a motorcycle bad-girl who gets into an accident and undergoes an operation. A gaping sore develops under her arm and soon she's guzzling all the blood she can get her hands on. Her unsuspecting victims become infected with a rabies-like disease and are transformed into bloodsucking ghouls.

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One of David Cronenberg's most successful early films, Rabidfeatures porn star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who becomes infected with a virus after an operation. As result she grows a kind of phallus with which she penetrates her victims as she sucks their blood and thus the disease spreads rapidly. The film displays all Cronenberg's usual horrified fascination with the human body and its sexual function. Looking back, it can be read as a kind of parable about AIDS, but it works perfectly well as an effective low-budget shocker.

On the DVD:the widescreen image on the DVD is acceptable quality, as is the sound. The fairly routine extras consist of excerpts from a TV interview with Cronenberg, lasting about 10 minutes; a collection of stills from the film; some written notes by horror expert Kim Newman that give useful background, though in part reproduce what is said in the interview; full filmographies for Cronenberg and the three principal performers, including a long list of Chambers' porn credits. --Ed Buscombe

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Video Introduction By David Cronenberg, Production Notes By Kim Newman, Image Gallery
Year:	1977
Release Date:	January 6, 2003
Runtime:	91 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P P A 1332
Keywords:	Off, General, Wide, Screen, Rabid, Horror, Occult, Schedule, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult