While the cinematography and score feel gritty and kinda gross in a good way, the film really is just boring and doesn't fully develop its ideas.
Rabid
You can't trust your mother, your best friend, the neighbor next door… one minute they're perfectly normal, the next… RABID!
Rating
3.5 (2)
Release Date
4/8/1977Runtime
91 minsGenres
Overview
After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a retractable, vampiric stinger in her armpit and a thirst for human blood—the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$530,000Revenue
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How It Feels
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A visceral descent into nightmare as a woman's own body becomes an instrument of horror and hunger. Cronenberg transforms intimate bodily terror into social catastrophe, where the monstrous emerges not from without but from within.
Mood
UnsettlingParanoidDread-soaked
Themes
SurvivalCorruptionIsolation
Tone
Matter-of-fact
Pacing
Steady
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violenceBody horrorSexual violence
Reviews
Much better than I was expecting. Some uncomfortable moments
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