History Film / Rabies

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Shir points out to Adi that [[spoiler:Yuval most certainly deserved being killed]].

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll Almost every main character dies]], except Pini, who just murdered someone, and the maniac, [[KarmaHoudini both of whom are still on the loose]].]]

* KillEmAll: Except [[spoiler: [[KarmaHoudini Pini and the maniac.]]]]

The film was an immense global success, appearing in over 50 festivals worldwide. At the Tribeca Film Festival it was selected as one of the top five films of the festival by the Los Angeles Times, Variety, the Wall Street Journal, and others. It won Best Film at the Ofir Awards, Best Feature Film at the Mile High Horror Film Festival in Denver, Colorado, Best Film at the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre film festival, and other prizes and special mentions in other festivals.

''Rabies''[[labelnote:Hebrew]]כלבת, ''Kalévet''[[/labelnote]] is 2010 thriller film written, directed, and edited by Nevot Papushado and Aharon Keshales and is the first Israeli feature length horror film.

The film starts with a young woman, Tali, trapped in an underground room in the middle of a the woods. Her brother, Ofer, tries to calm her down and tells her it was probably a trap meant for hunting rabbits, and dissuade her from the idea that their father is punishing them for what they’ve been doing, asserting they’ve done nothing wrong. He goes out to look for the person responsible, but is soon heard screaming in pain.

Cut to the local park ranger, Menashe, listening to the report on the radio with his girlfriend and their German shepherd, Buba. He thinks it’s probably nothing, just rich kids’ antics, and chats with his girlfriend before going on his route with Buba.

Cut to a group of four young adults: Shir, Adi, Pini, and Mike, wandering through the woods, looking for their way to a tennis match, when they hit Ofer with their car. When he regains consciousness, he desperately asks for their help, taking Pini and Mike with him into the woods while Shir and Adi stay behind and call the cops. Unfortunately, one of the cops, Yuval, is a shameless sexual assaulter, and the other, Dani, is not as eager as he should be about stopping him.

* MeaningfulName: [[LovableSexManiac Pini]] is a diminutive of Pinkhas that sounds an awful lot like ''pin''[[labelnote:Hebrew]]פין[[/labelnote]], ‘[[UnfortunateNames penis]]’. Also, ''pini'' is [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pino#Noun_5 Italian for ‘pine’]], and the plot takes place mostly in a pine forest.

* FaceDeathWithDignity[=/=]GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:When Tali wakes up from her brief nap with Ofer and finds out he’s dead and she’s surrounded by smoke and fire, she cries a little at first, but soon rests her head on his chest with a smile, waiting to die with him.]]

* VolleyingInsults: Pini and Adi during their SeinfeldianConversation.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Menashe’s girlfriend jokingly implies Menashe is cheating when he tells her he’s tending to an unconscious young woman.
** Dani cheated on Shani, and Yuval implies she’s done the same.

* [[spoiler:SoleSurvivor: Pini is the last character alive out of the group of four, and, aside from the maniac, of the characters who was involved in the whole ordeal that took place in the forest.]]
* TheStinger: During the credits, [[spoiler:the maniac comes out of the woods and tries to no avail to catch a ride, and [[SuddenlyVoiced says]], ‘A country full of arseholes.’]]
* SuddenlyVoiced: [[spoiler:The maniac utters only one line, in TheStinger.]]

* ThatCameOutWrong: Adi claims in jest that for [[HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday all his talk about strange fetishes]], Pini is actually [[AManIsNotAVirgin a virgin]]. Pini responds with a common Israeli jocular response to claims of virginity: ‘Yeah, in the ear, maybe!’ Adi and Mike are baffled.

* DownderEnding: [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll Almost every main character dies]], except Pini, who just murdered someone, and the maniac, [[KarmaHoudini both of whom are still on the loose]].]]

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Except [[KarmaHoudini Pini and the maniac.]]

* DontGoInTheWoods: Where there is a hidden cellar, a wandering maniac, bear traps, and [[spoiler:landmines]].

* MeaningfulName: [[LovableSexManiac Pini]] is a diminutive of Pinkhas that sounds an awful lot like ''pin''[[labelnote:Hebrew]]פין[[/labelnote]], ‘[[UnfortunateNames penis]]’.

* ThatCameOutWrong: Adi claims in jest that for all his talk about strange fetishes, Pini is actually [[AManIsNotAVirgin a virgin]]. Pini responds with a common Israeli jocular response to claims of virginity: ‘Yeah, in the ear, maybe!’ Adi and Mike are baffled.

* [[spoiler:SoleSurvivor: Pini is the last character alive out of the group of four, and of the characters who was involved in the whole ordeal that took place in the forest.]]

-->'''Pini:''' (''A bit movre quietly'') You think he heard everything I said?

* BrotherSisterIncest: Strongly implied with Tali and Ofer. [[spoiler:Confirmed near the end, when they kiss.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Pini and

* PoorCommunicationKills: Ofer [[spoiler:kills Menashe, thinking he’s the maniac who abducted his sister, even though he’s actually the one who saved her]]. Justified, as [[spoiler:stopping to check would have been too risky, given the condition he was in]].

* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler:Adi shoots off Yuval’s right little and ring fingers when he taunts her too much.]]

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* MoodWhiplash: Happens occasionally along the film,

* EyeAwake: [[spoiler:The maniac at the end of the film.]]

* AerithAndBod: Mike is the only character in the film with a non-Israeli name.

* YourCheatingHeart: Dani cheated on Shani, and Yuval implies she’s done the same.