91 minutes – Horror
Lanuage: English
Release date: April 8, 1977
VHS release date: 1983
DVD release date: 2000
DVD Special Edition release: 2004
Production company: Cinema Entertainment Enterprises Inc.
Canadian distributor: Cinépix Film Properties
U.S. distributor: New World Pictures

Rabid combines some of director David Cronenberg’s most unpleasant obsessions while he was working with cheaper budgets (when many fans argue he was at his best). The film features porn starlet Marilyn Chambers as a woman whose plastic surgery operation leads to her being stung by a wicked bloodlust (much like a vampire), and she infects her victims with a form of rabies. Typically, Rabid has dark humour, some rather campy gore, and Chambers bares it all for the camera. Not for all tastes, undoubtedly, but essential viewing for students and enthusiasts of Cronenberg. – Wyndham Wise’s Essential Guide to Canadian Film.

Also see: A review of Rabid by Joan Irving in Cinema Canada.
Also see: Northernstars reports on the 2004 release of the Rabid special edition DVD. The poster and lobby card image above were scanned from originals in the Northernstars Collection.