Rabid (1977 film)
1977 body horror film by David Cronenberg
Summary
Rabid is a 1977 body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, and Howard Ryshpan. The film follows Rose Miller, a woman who, after being injured in a motorcycle accident and undergoing a surgical operation, develops an orifice under one of her arms that hides a phallic/clitoral stinger she uses to feed on human blood, spreading a disease from the Quebec countryside into urban Montreal.
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