Rabid 1977.
After surviving a bike crash, Rose goes under a experimental plastic surgery which turns her into a rabies carrier and infects those around her till martial law is declared.
From the mind of David Cronenberg this is a take on the vampire/zombie genre with an extra kick of rabies mixed in. Marilyn Chambers performance as Rose is brilliant as the bombshell who people seem attracted to and fall for. Frank Moore plays the boyfriend Hart who is caught in the epidemic and unsure how the contagion started.
From start to finish the film does go slow in bits and can be seen for a medical lesson for skin graphing. The film can be tense, it may not be a masterpiece but doesn't deserves to be dismissed as a low budget horror and fairly decent acting goes with it.
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