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By reveling in the underbelly, Cronenberg shows that even respectable public spaces are a breath away from chaos. In one sequence, Rose hits the mall, a lurid, neon-Christmas rush... Cronenberg did more than anyone to make Canada cool, not by creating something new, but by teasing out the dark waves that already color the country. It's cold up here, and spooky. Cronenberg's gift in Rabid is exposing just how spooky.

Throughout its running time, Rabid works on such a primitive and lyrically allegorical level that we move along with it – curious and horrified and titillated to see where it will go. It's funny and sad and absurd and a little bit of a turn on, too – which seems strange. But maybe not. Cronenberg does not judge.

After the shock tactics of Shivers, Cronenberg’s next venture into body horror is more subdued, but holds up surprisingly well... Despite some very dated make-up, the rabid attacks produce some memorable and shocking moments.

The craft’s rough, but this is Cronenberg’s sleaziest, funniest film, jammed with juicy gore, infectious shocks and a splendidly unnecessary Santa massacre.

Cinema as a sustained bout of fever, a melancholy defense of Pandora, a world getting forcibly acquainted with new desires and new diseases. The pestilent aftermath is nothing but a quiet gray morning where the heroine is literally thrown in the trash, T.S. Eliot's "heap of broken images."

The best scenes [in Rabid], including one classic episode in a chicken takeaway, are pitched ingeniously between shock and parody, never quite succumbing to farce. None of the other recent apocalypse movies has shown so much political or cinematic sophistication.

Rabid is the film that really launched the career of David Cronenberg... the director's startling visual imagination emerges here at its finest, a low budget forcing inventive camerawork where he would later come to rely more of special effects.

Ultimately "Rabid" boils down to zombified sluts and shock moments but it's an irresistible combination that Cronenberg handles well.

Rabid is so accurately titled that this one word tells all. Here is an extremely violent, sometimes nauseating, picture about a young woman affected with rabies, running around Montreal infecting others.