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Rabid is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by David Cronenberg released in USA on 8 april 1977 with Marilyn Chambers
Rabid (1977)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 8 april 1977
Length 1h27
Directed by David Cronenberg
OriginUSA
Themes La fin du monde, Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Christmas films, Vampires in film, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Disaster films
Rating63%
Rabid is a 1977 Canadian drama horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. It features Marilyn Chambers in the lead role, supported by Howard Ryshpan, Joe Silver and Robert A. Silverman.
Chambers plays a woman who, after being injured in a motorcycle accident and undergoing a surgical operation, develops an orifice under one of her armpits. The orifice hides a phallic stinger that she uses to feed on people's blood. Those she feeds upon become infected, whose bite spreads the disease.
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A critically injured woman, victim of a motorcycle accident, is taken to the plastic surgery clinic of Doctor Dan Keloid, where some of her intact tissue is treated to become morphogenetically neutral. The tissue is grafted to fire-damaged areas of her body in the hope that it will differentiate and replace the damaged skin and organs.Actors
Marilyn Chambers
(Laure (Rose en VO))
Susan Roman
(Mindy Kent)
Joe Silver
(Murray Cypher)
Patricia Gage
(Dr. Roxanne Keloid)
Victor Désy
(Claude LaPointe)
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