Rabid (1977)

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   essaywhu

   I had a good time with this. The film wasn't amazing, but it was fun. It was nice to see the beautiful Marilyn Chambers in a mainstream film. It was an interesting idea to make a horror film as an allegory for STD's which were probably a hot topic at the time, although this was a few years before AIDS and HIV appeared so it seems almost ahead of its time because of this.
   
   On a side note it was cool seeing the department stores and streets of 1970's Montreal. 10 years 5 months ago
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   Chris Chambers

   And you think your armpits stink!
   
   4 years 6 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Rabid is an early David Cronenberg horror flick and consequently squishy from early on, but it's not entirely successful. It feels a little choppy, our movement from sequence to sequence not always clear. And it has some terribly wooden acting, though adult film star Marilyn Chambers is watchable enough despite her limited range as the Typhoid Mary causing a zombie apocalypse in wet rural Quebec and in Montreal. The sense of place is kind of off and on, and it certainly doesn't capture the linguistic landscape, though locals might find an echo of the martial law imposed earlier in the decade during the FLQ threat. There are some good bits, but a lot of waiting around for them, and like a garden-variety X-Files episode (don't tell me Chris Carter and his team didn't see Rabid), don't expect any real explanation. I read the Soska Sisters are releasing a remake of Rabid this year, and I'm sure they'll do it justice. They can probably tighten the focus on the odd vampiric hug-rape stuff and its relationship to male fear of female sexual empowerment (surely why Chambers was cast, right?). 5 years 1 month ago

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