Dictionary Definition
rabid adj : marked by excessive enthusiasm for
and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn:
fanatic, fanatical, overzealous]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹæbɪd/, /ˈɹeɪbɪd/, /"r
Extensive Definition
Rabid is a 1977 horror film
written and directed by David
Cronenberg. Marilyn
Chambers stars, with Frank Moore, Howard Ryshpan, Joe Silver
and Robert
A. Silverman, who would go on to become a regular Cronenberg
actor, appearing in The Brood,
Scanners,
Naked
Lunch and eXistenZ.
Cronenberg has stated that he
originally wanted to cast Sissy Spacek
in the lead, but the studio vetoed this because of her accent.
Ironically enough, Spacek's film Carrie was released and proved to
be a massive hit during this film's production. The director says
that the idea of casting Chambers originated with producer Ivan
Reitman, because he had heard that Chambers was looking for a
mainstream role and because he felt that it would be easier to
market the film in different territories if the well-known porn
star portrayed the main character.
Plot summary
A critically-injured woman
victim of a motorcycle accident is taken
to the plastic surgery clinic of Doctor Dan Keloid, where some
of her intact tissue is treated to become "morphogenetically neutral"
and grafted to
fire-damaged areas of her body in the hope that they will differentiate
and replace the damaged skin and organs.
Unfortunately, the woman's
body unexpectedly accepts the transplants: she develops an anal
orifice under an armpit, within it hides a
phallic stinger. She
uses it to feed on the blood of other people, and
afterwards wiping their memories of their incidents with
her.
It soon is apparent that her
every victim transforms to a rabid zombie whose bite spreads the
disease, eventually causing the city to fall into chaos before the
outbreak can be contained.
See also
External links
rabid in German: Rabid – Der
brüllende Tod
rabid in French: Rage
(film)
rabid in Japanese:
ラビッド
rabid in Russian: Бешенство
(фильм)
rabid in Finnish:
Verenimijät
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Dionysiac, abandoned, amok, bacchic, bellowing, berserk, bigoted, carried away, corybantic, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, demoniac, deranged, desperate, distracted, ecstatic, enraged, enraptured, enthusiastic, extravagant, extreme, extremist, fanatic, fanatical, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, furious, haggard, hog-wild, hopping mad,
howling, hydrophobic, hysterical, in a rage, in a
transport, in hysterics, infuriate, infuriated, inordinate, insane, intoxicated, irrational, keen, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, obsessed, orgasmic, orgiastic, overenthusiastic,
overreligious,
overzealous,
perfervid, possessed, radical, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, raving mad, ravished, revolutional, revolutionary, revolutionist, roaring, roaring mad, running
mad, running wild, savage, stark-raving mad,
storming, transported, ultra, ultraist, ultrazealous, uncontrollable, unreasonable, unreasoning, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking,
zealotic, zealous