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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Saw the original Rabid on the weekend, I couldn't sleep and at 3 am on Saturday it was on IFC.
This movie is a budget made Canadian Horror movie about a girl that gets in a motorcycle accident and as a result of experimental treatment develops a appendage under her arm that allows her to feed on blood. It also passes on a version of the rabies virus that effects humans. It had some outright creepy and brutal scenes in it, and a very smart and tragic ending.
But more important was the back story.
The lead actress was Marilyn Chambers who appeared in one of the original ivory soap ads, She then moved into porn and made the infamous Behind the Green Door, and was one of the rare porn actresses that made the jump to main stream before getting forced back into porn, she ran for the VP of the United States as a Libertarian and died at the age of 59.
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Funny you should post this. I actually watched this one again a few months back as I remembered it as kind of a classic in particular that mall scene and when it popped up while flipping through movies I felt compelled to at least start watching only to see it through to the end. It actually has aged fairly well given it's a 1977 Canadian movie made on a tiny budget. Cronenberg's talent overcomes a lot of the shortcomings (acting was simply not as strong in this time period as we are accustomed to today) and this is a movie that illustrates how important music was to setting up mood and an unnerving atmosphere before the days of CGI. Of course you can't talk about this move without bringing up Chambers who IMO did a fairly decent job considering it was her first movie. She was a stunner then and a stunner today as her natural girl next door beauty is on full display in this film. One wonders if she could have made a good go at Hollywood or TV had she not started out in porn as I understand even after this film she was still largely blacklisted by Hollowood leading her to fall back into porn and substance abuse.