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* BodyHorror: Rose heals beautifully after her cutting edge skin graft surgery, aside from a slight side effect when she develops a small fissure in her armpit which shoots out a grotesque phallic stinger and uses it to drain her victims of blood, at the same time infecting them with a deadly new strain of rabies.
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* QueerFlowers: Inverted in the case of Rose and Mindy, who have a mild romance between them. Mindy is determined to take care of Rose, and even stripped Rose naked when she was ill, and suggests she takes a hot bath. For Rose's part, she was vehemently against Mindy being her next victim, even before she realized [[spoiler:it was lethal.]]
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* NeverMyFault: Rose keeps convincing herself that she's not the one who is spreading the disease until she can no longer deny it after confronting Hart at the film's climax.
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* CreatorCameo: Producer Ivan Reitman and director Creator/DavidCronenberg appear as soldiers patrolling the streets.
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* DeadlyHug: Rose has a spike that allows her to feed on her victim's blood in her armpit. She, therefore, kills by hugging them.
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This film was given a remake in 2019, starring Creator/LauraVandervoort as Rose.
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* BittersweetEnding: The epidemic appears to be somewhat under control, but at the cost of hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. Rose, who may be the only hope for a vaccine, does dies and her body is casually tossed into a garbage truck to be disposed of alongside dozens of other victims. However, it’s certainly a less outwardly bleak ending than ''{{Film/Shivers}}''.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: Rose is either unaware or is in deep denial that her new feeding habit is spreading the plague.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Rose and Mindy.
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* TragicMonster: Rose becomes one once Hart forces gradually turns into one, especially towards the end when she realizes she has just [[spoiler:killed her to realize she's best friend]] and is responsible for the one spreading the infection.citywide rabies outbreak.
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* EyeScream: Rose stings her would be rapist right the eye.
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* FromNobodToNightmare: Rose goes from a pretty young BikerChick to a [[MonsterProgenitor plague spreading vampire]].
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* BloodIsSquickerInWater Judy Glasberg's blood mixes with the water in the hot tub after she's penetrated by Rose's stinger.
* FromNobodToNightmare: Rose goes from a pretty young BikerChick to a [[MonsterProgenitor plague spreading vampire]].
* LesbianVampire: Mildly implied when Rose attacks Judy Glasberg in the jacuzzi.
* PuppeteerParasite: Rose's newfound orifice, possibly. How much she is in control of or aware of her actions remains ambiguous.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Hart causesRefugeInAudacity: Dr. Keloid left the motorcycle accident that sets off United States after being laughed out for his (ethically dubious) idea of creating a franchised chain of events leading branded plastic surgery clinics. His skill with grafting procedures, however, are enough for him to Rose's deadly predicament be ingratiated by the Canadian medical community and the citywide rabies outbreak.receive a steady stream of grants.
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-->'''Rose:''' I'm still me. I'm still Rose.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Rose doesn't drink blood like a classic vampire, she grows a whole new retractable appendage under her armpit for her vampiric needs.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: When she finally realizes she is the cause of the rabies outbreak, Rose purposely locks herself in a room with a man she infected.]]
* EyeScream: Rose stings her would be rapist right the eye.
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* TragicMonster: Rose becomes one once Hart forces her to realize she's the one spreading the infection.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's dubious how aware Rose is of her actions. When not driven but the insatiable bloodlust of her condition, she behaves normally and seems just as confused and terrified by the outbreak as everybody else.
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* IronicName: Dan and Roxanne Keloid's name comes from a [[https://www.aad.org/public/diseases/bumps-and-growths/keloids type of scar.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: The epidemic appears to be somewhat under control, but at the cost of hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. Rose, who may be the only hope for a possible vaccine or cure to the outbreak is indiscriminately killed by police and cassually tossed into a garbage truck to be disposed of alongside dozens of other corpses.
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Young Rose (adult film star Marilyn Chambers) is severely injured in a freak highway accident in countryside, necessitating an experimental grafting procedure to save her life. Rose appears to make a full recovery, but soon develops an unusual, phallic stinger on her armpit that feeds off of human blood, and infects those it touches with a highly potent rabies strain that renders the infected an insane, zombie-like creature. Rose, unbeknownst of her own condition, begins spreading the epidemic across the countryside and into a nearby urban centre as the situation spirals further and further out of control.
''Rabid'' (1977) is director [[Creator/DavidCronenberg David Cronenberg's]] second feature film after the controversy and success of ''Film/{{Shivers}}''. It was his first film to receive a wide release in the United States, being co-produced by [[Creator/RogerCorman Roger Corman's]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Pictures New World Pictures]], and Cronenberg's second collaboration with producer Ivan Reitman. The cast is a venerable Who's-Who of Canadian character actors, including cameos by future ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' and ''Series/CallMeFitz'' star Peter [=MacNeill=] and ''Film/EmpireRecords'' director Allan Moyle.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's dubious how aware Rose is of her actions. When not driven but the insatiable bloodlust of her condition, she behaves normally and seems just as confused and terrified by the outbreak as everybody else.
* BittersweetEnding: The epidemic appears to be somewhat under control, but at the cost of hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. Rose, who may be the only hope for a possible vaccine or cure to the outbreak is indiscriminately killed by police and cassually tossed into a garbage truck to be disposed of alongside dozens of other corpses.
* CreatorCameo: Producer Ivan Reitman and director Creator/DavidCronenberg appear as soldiers patrolling the streets.
* DirtyOldMan: The farmer who tries to force himself on Rose, [[spoiler:and gets stung and infected for his troubles.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The process of Rose's blood feeding and infection bares more than a passing resemblance to rape.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: An experimental skin and organ grafting procedure results in the patient developing a phallic, vampiric stinger that spreads a zombie-like infection to whomever it comes into contact with.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Averted by Dan and Roxanne Keloid, who performs an untested, experimental procedure on Rose, but only to save her life after a life-threatening injury caused by a freak accident.
* NotUsingTheZWord: The infected are effectively zombies with a particularly nasty strain of rabies that causes intense bloodlust and insanity before eventually killing them through hydrophobia.
* ThePlague: The rabies outbreak first spread throughout the countryside [[spoiler:by those bitten by Rose, who in turn infect others and eventually spread the outbreak into downtown Montreal.]]
* PuppeteerParasite: Rose's newfound orifice, possibly. How much she is in control of or aware of her actions remains ambiguous.
* TyphoidMary: Rose is technically the PatientZero of the outbreak, but she seems largely unaware of her actions, and remains outwardly normal unlike those she infects.
* RefugeInAudacity: Dr. Keloid left the United States after being laughed out for his (ethically dubious) idea of creating a franchised chain of branded plastic surgery clinics. His skill with grafting procedures, however, are enough for him to be ingratiated by the Canadian medical community and receive a steady stream of grants.
''Rabid'' (1977) is director [[Creator/DavidCronenberg David Cronenberg's]] second feature film after the controversy and success of ''Film/{{Shivers}}''. It was his first film to receive a wide release in the United States, being co-produced by [[Creator/RogerCorman Roger Corman's]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Pictures New World Pictures]], and Cronenberg's second collaboration with producer Ivan Reitman. The cast is a venerable Who's-Who of Canadian character actors, including cameos by future ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' and ''Series/CallMeFitz'' star Peter [=MacNeill=] and ''Film/EmpireRecords'' director Allan Moyle.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's dubious how aware Rose is of her actions. When not driven but the insatiable bloodlust of her condition, she behaves normally and seems just as confused and terrified by the outbreak as everybody else.
* BittersweetEnding: The epidemic appears to be somewhat under control, but at the cost of hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. Rose, who may be the only hope for a possible vaccine or cure to the outbreak is indiscriminately killed by police and cassually tossed into a garbage truck to be disposed of alongside dozens of other corpses.
* CreatorCameo: Producer Ivan Reitman and director Creator/DavidCronenberg appear as soldiers patrolling the streets.
* DirtyOldMan: The farmer who tries to force himself on Rose, [[spoiler:and gets stung and infected for his troubles.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The process of Rose's blood feeding and infection bares more than a passing resemblance to rape.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: An experimental skin and organ grafting procedure results in the patient developing a phallic, vampiric stinger that spreads a zombie-like infection to whomever it comes into contact with.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Averted by Dan and Roxanne Keloid, who performs an untested, experimental procedure on Rose, but only to save her life after a life-threatening injury caused by a freak accident.
* NotUsingTheZWord: The infected are effectively zombies with a particularly nasty strain of rabies that causes intense bloodlust and insanity before eventually killing them through hydrophobia.
* ThePlague: The rabies outbreak first spread throughout the countryside [[spoiler:by those bitten by Rose, who in turn infect others and eventually spread the outbreak into downtown Montreal.]]
* PuppeteerParasite: Rose's newfound orifice, possibly. How much she is in control of or aware of her actions remains ambiguous.
* TyphoidMary: Rose is technically the PatientZero of the outbreak, but she seems largely unaware of her actions, and remains outwardly normal unlike those she infects.
* RefugeInAudacity: Dr. Keloid left the United States after being laughed out for his (ethically dubious) idea of creating a franchised chain of branded plastic surgery clinics. His skill with grafting procedures, however, are enough for him to be ingratiated by the Canadian medical community and receive a steady stream of grants.
