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Here is an extremely violent, sometimes nauseating, picture about a young woman affected with rabies, running around Montreal infecting others. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
Here is an extremely violent, sometimes nauseating, picture about a young woman affected with rabies, running around Montreal infecting others.
Variety Staff
None of the other recent apocalypse movies has shown so much political or cinematic sophistication. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
None of the other recent apocalypse movies has shown so much political or cinematic sophistication.
"It's Cronenberg's best full-stop horror movie, I think, one where the horror comes first and the subtext is almost accidental. Later, it would be the reverse..." Jan 2, 2018 | Full Review…
"It's Cronenberg's best full-stop horror movie, I think, one where the horror comes first and the subtext is almost accidental. Later, it would be the reverse..."
Chris Alexander
Remains effectively squirmy, gruesome, and even prescient nearly forty years after its release. Nov 21, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Remains effectively squirmy, gruesome, and even prescient nearly forty years after its release.
Dustin Putman
After the shock tactics of Shivers, Cronenberg's next venture into body horror is more subdued, but holds up surprisingly well. Jan 30, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
After the shock tactics of Shivers, Cronenberg's next venture into body horror is more subdued, but holds up surprisingly well.
Scott McKellar
Cinema as a sustained bout of fever, a melancholy defense of Pandora Feb 24, 2013 | Full Review…
Cinema as a sustained bout of fever, a melancholy defense of Pandora
Fernando F. Croce
Revolting, yes, but still, an intelligent predecessor to some more moronic efforts in the same genre. Oct 19, 2009 | Full Review…
Revolting, yes, but still, an intelligent predecessor to some more moronic efforts in the same genre.
Film4 Staff
While Chambers does add some resonance to the film as a sexual icon, her acting ability is decidedly limited. Oct 19, 2009 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
While Chambers does add some resonance to the film as a sexual icon, her acting ability is decidedly limited.
quite good Feb 18, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4
quite good
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
Te raw, seductive appeal that Chambers conveys is what really keeps you going from one sequence to the next. Jun 10, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
Te raw, seductive appeal that Chambers conveys is what really keeps you going from one sequence to the next.
Douglas Pratt
David Cronenberg's underrated second film continues to develop his theme of body manipulation. Jan 17, 2005 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
David Cronenberg's underrated second film continues to develop his theme of body manipulation.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Not Cronenberg at his peak, but neither is it without interest. Apr 21, 2003 | Rating: 3/5
Not Cronenberg at his peak, but neither is it without interest.
Ken Hanke
A bunch of disconnected ideas don't make a film, and so this bizarre movie feels more like an amalgam of unripe ideas thrown together without a clear purpose (much like Shivers before it), making me wonder why Cronenberg cast a porn movie actress as a grotesque sexual predator.
Super Reviewer
Okay, but kind of off putting. A lot of blood and gore as you would expect from a movie about a freak case of rabies. It kind of made me uncomfortable at times - it didn't seem all that nice towards women, for example the extra "mouth", a lot of female nudity and though the lead actress is good, it is interesting to watch the extra features on this disc and discover she was actually a porn star. I'm a bit iffy on this director.
Hands down the best Canadian zombie film starring a porn star.
Yet more gross-out fun from Cronenberg. This is basically Shivers again on a much larger scale as the chaos and madness of rabies infected people plague the city of Montreal thanks to the vampirous Marilyn Chambers and her nasty armpit. If you liked Shivers and other infection/plague movies like 28 days Later than this is worth a viewing.
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