New desires and new perils in Canada ravaged by a bizarre zombie apocalypse. Screening as part of the All Tomorrow’s Scars. Directed by David Cronenberg film programme.
Rabid
- Date:
- 18 Jul 2026,
18:00–19:30
- Age restrictions
- 18+
1977, David Cronenberg
Canada
91 minutes, English with Russian subtitles
Starring: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan
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A plastic surgery clinic in Quebec has developed an innovative skin transplant technique. Finding a test patient doesn’t take long: a couple on a motorbike crashes near the hospital, and the girl is rushed into the operating room. When the heroine wakes up from a coma, she begins to experience an insatiable thirst for human blood, and a bizarre carnivorous growth appears in her armpit.
Shot from Rabid, 1977
None of the other recent apocalypse movies has shown so much political or cinematic sophistication.
— Phil de Semlyen, TimeOut
In Rabid, Cronenberg for the first time truly realizes his vision of cinema as a feverish dream, prophesying for humanity not only new pandemics, but also a new eroticism and new notion of itself.
