Rabid (1977) on Netflix
Rose Miller is badly burned in a motorcycle crash in the Quebec countryside. Experimental surgery saves her life, and she can afterward survive only on human blood.
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- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb6.3/1023,986 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes77%
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Plot summary
Rose Miller and Hart Reed are riding through the Quebec countryside when a van blocks the road and they crash. Hart breaks his hand and shoulder and suffers a concussion, while Rose is severely hurt and burned. At the Keloid Clinic for Plastic Surgery, Dr. Dan Keloid rebuilds her skin and organs with experimental grafts. Hart goes home after a month. Rose stays in a coma, then wakes one night screaming. A new organ has formed beneath her arm, and it lets her feed on human blood; ordinary food no longer sustains her, and those she pierces fall ill with a swift, maddening infection that spreads from the clinic toward Montreal.
Cast
- Roger Periardas Lloyd Walsh
- Victor Désyas Claude LaPointe
- Julie Annaas Nurse Rita
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rabid (1977)
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- Originally titled Mosquitoes, the script gave David Cronenberg trouble because it ranged over a whole city rather than one apartment block like Shivers; at one point he told John Dunning the film was nuts, a story about a woman who grows an organ in her armpit and sucks people's blood through it, and that he could not do it.
- David Cronenberg wanted Sissy Spacek for the lead after seeing her in Badlands, but Dunning rejected her citing her freckles and her Texan accent; executive producer Ivan Reitman then suggested Marilyn Chambers, having heard she was looking for a mainstream role.
- Cronenberg's editing to tighten and reduce the film's running time removed a scene explaining the development of the armpit orifice, a cut he later said he regretted.
