- Year
- 1977
- Country
- Canada · USA
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (25/100)
- Also known as
- Mosquitoes · Rage
Rabid
Cronenberg gives Marilyn Chambers a blood-feeding stinger. Montreal falls apart around her.
Cronenberg's follow-up to Shivers, casting adult-film star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who, after experimental surgery, develops a phallic stinger in her armpit that feeds on blood and turns its victims into rabid, plague-spreading maniacs. The infection consumes Montreal.
It is a step up in scale and control, and Chambers is surprisingly affecting as a woman horrified by what she has become. Cronenberg treats the epidemic with the same detached precision that makes his body horror colder and more disturbing than gore alone.
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