RABID

RABID
   Film (1976). Cinepix/Dibar Syndicate/Canadian Film Development Corp. Written/dir David Cronenberg, starring Marilyn Chambers, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, Patricia Gage, Susan Roman. 91 mins. Colour.
   In this Canadian film from David CRONENBERG an experimental skin graft on an accident victim (hardcore porn star Marilyn Chambers) turns her into the carrier of a rabies-like disease which induces homicidal mania in its victims; the disease is spread by means of a phallic, organic syringe which emerges from labia in her armpit and is used to satisfy her new, uncontrollable blood lust. Montreal is soon in the throes of apocalypse, and martial law is established; citizens who cannot produce proof of inoculation are shot by troops and their bodies dumped into garbage trucks. Structured much like The PARASITE MURDERS (1974; vt They Came from Within; vt Shivers), this is more smoothly directed but perhaps lessintense, and by Cronenberg's standards is a conventional exploitation picture - though from anybody else this medical/Freudian HORROR movie, with its gender-bending, penis-wielding killer woman, would have seemed bizarre indeed.
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   See also: CINEMA; MONSTER MOVIES; SEX.

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  • Rabid — Rab id (r[a^]b [i^]d), a. [L. rabidus, from rabere to rave. See {Rage}, n.] 1. Furious; raging; extremely violent. [1913 Webster] The rabid flight Of winds that ruin ships. Chapman. [1913 Webster] 2. Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rabid — index deranged, extreme (exaggerated), fanatical, outrageous, vehement, zealous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

  • rabid — (adj.) 1610s, furious, raving, from L. rabidus, from rabere be mad, rave (see RAGE (Cf. rage)). Meaning made mad by rabies first recorded 1804. Related: Rabidly; rabidness …   Etymology dictionary

  • rabid — *furious, frantic, frenzied, wild, frenetic, delirious Analogous words: maddened, enraged, infuriated, incensed, angered (see ANGER vb): violent, compulsive (see corresponding nouns at FORCE): *insane, crazed, crazy, demented, deranged …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • rabid — [adj] very angry; maniacal berserk, bigoted, bitten, corybantic, crazed*, crazy, delirious, deranged, enthusiastic, extreme, extremist, fanatical, fervent, flipped*, foaming at the mouth*, frantic, freaked out*, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hot* …   New thesaurus

  • rabid — ► ADJECTIVE 1) extreme; fanatical. 2) relating to or affected with rabies. DERIVATIVES rabidly adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • rabid — [rab′id; ] for 3, occas. [ rā′bid] adj. [L rabidus < rabere, to rage, prob. < IE base * rabh , to be violent, raging > Sans rábhas , violence, force, L rabies, madness] 1. violent; raging 2. fanatic or unreasonably zealous in beliefs,… …   English World dictionary

  • Rabid — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel Rabid – Der brüllende Tod Originaltitel Rabid Pr …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • rabid — adj. fanatical rabid about, on (rabid on a certain subject) * * * [ ræbɪd] on (rabid on a certain subject) [ fanatical ] rabid about …   Combinatory dictionary

  • Rabid — Infobox Film name = Rabid caption = Theatrical poster director = David Cronenberg producer = John Dunning | writer = David Cronenberg starring = Marilyn Chambers Frank Moore Joe Silver Howard Ryshpan Patricia Gage Susan Roman music =… …   Wikipedia

  • Rabid — Rage (film) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Rage (homonymie). Rage Titre original Rabid Réalisation David Cronenberg Acteurs principaux Marilyn Chambers Frank Moore Joe Silver Howard Rysh …   Wikipédia en Français

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