Event

Rabid

Fri Nov 08: 8.00pm
Sat Nov 09: 8.30pm
Sun Nov 10: 7.00pm

David Cronenberg
Canada
1977
1h 31m

About
Picking up where his taboo-busting Shivers left off, Rabid is the next-level iteration of David Cronenbergs obsession with sexual body horror as a late-nite creature feature.

Former adult film star Marilyn Chambers plays a woman who, after a motorcycle accident, wakes up in a hospital with new skin and a new appetite. As the city of Montréal transforms into an incubator for gunk-spewing vampires, the ghostly Chambers finds herself at war with her body and the world.

Rabid is young Cronenberg firing on all cylinders. Featuring a focused and intense performance from Chambers, clever statements on vanity / greed and a grotesque lil beastie that looks like a penis with teeth, Rabid is a high-water mark in lysergic horror. This includes the show-stopping scene involving a machine gun and Santa Claus!