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* ShoutOut: Chelsea compares Rose to Franchise/SpiderMan when a side-effect of the treatment is that Rose no longer needs glasses.
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* FacialHorror: Rose’s accident cost her a sizeable portion of her intestines, but the real damage is her face, with her lips practically torn off and her jaw wired shut so that she cannot talk on her own and can only take sustenance through a straw.
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* FacialHorror: Rose’s accident cost her a sizeable portion of her intestines, but the real damage is her face, with her lips practically torn off and her jaw wired shut so that she cannot talk on her own and can only take sustenance through a straw. Rose’s operation cures all those ailments, but brings a whole new set of problems…
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''Rabid'' (1977) is director [[Creator/DavidCronenberg David Cronenberg's]] second feature film after the controversy and success of ''Film/Shivers1975''. 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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''Rabid'' (1977) is director [[Creator/DavidCronenberg David Cronenberg's]] second feature film after the controversy and success of ''Film/Shivers1975''. 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'' ''Series/QueerAsFolkUS'' and ''Series/CallMeFitz'' star Peter [=MacNeill=] and ''Film/EmpireRecords'' director Allan Moyle.
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''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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''Rabid'' (1977) is director [[Creator/DavidCronenberg David Cronenberg's]] second feature film after the controversy and success of ''Film/{{Shivers}}''.''Film/Shivers1975''. 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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* 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, 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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* 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, 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}}''.''Film/Shivers1975''.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Shivers. Both films feature an attractive young woman who infects multiple people with a disease, the infection is passed from person to person and soon spins out of the control. Essentially, Rabid is just Shivers with the sex parasites and the apartment building swapped out for a new strain of rabies and the Quebecois countryside. Both films also have Joe Silver in a supporting role.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Shivers.''Shivers''. Both films feature an attractive young woman who infects multiple people with a disease, the infection is passed from person to person and soon spins out of the control. Essentially, Rabid ''Rabid'' is just Shivers ''Shivers'' with the sex parasites and the apartment building swapped out for a new strain of rabies and the Quebecois countryside. Both films also have Joe Silver in a supporting role.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Rose goes from a pretty young BikerBabe to a [[MonsterProgenitor plague spreading vampire]].
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Rose goes from a pretty young BikerBabe BadassBiker to a [[MonsterProgenitor plague spreading vampire]].
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* {{Fingore}}: Dr. Keloid turns rabid just as he was about to begin surgery and attempts to cut the tip of an orderly's finger off with a pair of surgical scissors before attempting to bite it off.
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* {{Fingore}}: Dr. Keloid turns rabid just as he was about to begin surgery cut the thread after stitching up a patient's ear and attempts to cut the tip of an orderly's finger off with a pair of surgical scissors before attempting to bite it off.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A soldier guns down an infected person in a mall but due to the infecteds close proximity and the gun's power, the bullets pass through the man and end up killing the mall Santa who was behind him. Once he realizes what's happened, he holds his hand to hisnfrehead and says "Oh, Christ!"
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Lloyd goes rabid while in the backseat of a taxi headed home and he attacks the driver who proceeds to swerve around the road until sideswiping another car, resulting in an explosion. The car then flips over, rolling over several times until it tumbles off the side of an overpass, falling 30-40 feet before crashing down on a lower road... only to get smashed into side-on by a semi and shoved into a ditch, just in case you thought both occupants could have survived the rollover and fall off the bridge.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Lloyd goes rabid while in the backseat of a taxi headed home and he attacks the driver who proceeds to swerve around the road until sideswiping another car, resulting in an explosion. The car then flips over, rolling over several times until it tumbles off the side of an overpass, falling 30-40 feet before crashing down on a lower road... only to get smashed into side-on by a semi and shoved into a ditch, just in case you thought both occupants could have survived the rollover and fall off the bridge.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A soldier guns down an infected person in a mall but due to the infecteds close proximity and the gun's power, the bullets pass through the man and end up killing the mall Santa who was behind him. Once he realizes what's happened, he holds his hand to hisnfrehead his forehead and says "Oh, Christ!"
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Lloyd goes rabid while in the backseat of a taxi headed home and he attacks the driver who proceeds to swerve around the road until sideswiping another car, resulting in an explosion. The car then flips over, rolling over several times until it tumbles off the side of an overpass, falling30-40 50-60 feet before crashing down on a lower road... only to get smashed into side-on T-boned by a semi and shoved into a ditch, just in case you thought both occupants could have survived the rollover and fall off the bridge.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Lloyd goes rabid while in the backseat of a taxi headed home and he attacks the driver who proceeds to swerve around the road until sideswiping another car, resulting in an explosion. The car then flips over, rolling over several times until it tumbles off the side of an overpass, falling
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Shivers. Both films feature an attractive young woman who infects multiple people with a disease, the infection is passed from person to person and soon spins out of the control. Essentially, Rabid is just Shivers with the sex parasites and the apartment building swapped out for a new strain of rabies and the Quebecois countryside. Both films also have Joe Silver in a aupporting role.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Shivers. Both films feature an attractive young woman who infects multiple people with a disease, the infection is passed from person to person and soon spins out of the control. Essentially, Rabid is just Shivers with the sex parasites and the apartment building swapped out for a new strain of rabies and the Quebecois countryside. Both films also have Joe Silver in a aupporting supporting role.
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* UnluckyExtra: One man turns rabid inside a shopping mall close to where a little girl is having her picture taken with a mall Santa. He runs at full sprint towarda them snarling which prompts a soldier nearby to open fire on the man from behind. While the little girl is rushed to safety by the Santa's helper elf, the power of the gun results in the bullets going through and killing the infected man, but also killing the Santa.
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* UnluckyExtra: One man turns rabid inside a shopping mall close to where a little girl is having her picture taken with a mall Santa. He runs at full sprint towarda towards them snarling which prompts a soldier nearby to open fire on the man from behind. While the little girl is rushed to safety by the Santa's helper elf, the power of the gun results in the bullets going through and killing the infected man, but also killing the Santa.
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* WasOnceAMan: Dan Keloid is infected by Rose and the rabies come to the surface while he was about to perform a surgery and he attacks a nurse. When Murray arrives to find the hospital crawling with cops, he is informed that it took multiple officers to restrain Dr. Keloid, some of whom were bit. He asks where Keloid is, only for the officer to respond "You mean that?" and points to a nearby armored transport van. Once Dr. Cypher approaches the window, Keloid lunges at him, snarling and foaming at the mouth, having been driven into a feral rage by the infection.
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* WasOnceAMan: Dan Keloid is infected by Rose and the rabies come to the surface while he was about to perform is finishing a surgery and he attacks a nurse. When Murray arrives to find the hospital crawling with cops, he is informed that it took multiple officers to restrain Dr. Keloid, some of whom were bit. He asks where Keloid is, only for the officer to respond "You mean that?" and points to a nearby armored transport van. Once Dr. Cypher approaches the window, Keloid lunges at him, snarling and foaming at the mouth, having been driven into a feral rage by the infection.
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* {{Fingore}}: Dr. Keloid turns rabid just as he was about to begin surgery and attempts to cut the tip of an orderly's finger off with a pair of surgical scissors before attempting to bite it off.
* KilledOffscreen: True to the real-life variant of rabies, those infected are briefly driven mad before going into a coma and dying from hydrophobia.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: A soldier guns down an infected person in a mall but due to the infecteds close proximity and the gun's power, the bulletsbullets pass through the man and end up killing the mall Santa who was behind him. Once he realizes what's happened, he holds his hand to hisnfrehead and says "Oh, Christ!"
* SpiritualSuccessor: To Shivers. Both films feature an attractive young woman who infects multiple people with a disease, the infection is passed from person to person and soon spins out of the control. Essentially, Rabid is just Shivers with the sex parasites and the apartment building swapped out for a new strain of rabies and the Quebecois countryside. Both films also have Joe Silver in a aupporting role.
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* WasOnceAMan: Dan Keloid is infected by Rose and the rabies come to the surface while he was about to perform a surgery and he attacks a nurse. When Murray arrives to find the hospital crawling with cops, he is informed that it took multiple officers to restrain Dr. Keloid, some of whom were bit. He asks where Keloid is, only for the officer to respond "You mean that?" and points to a nearby armored transport van. Once Dr. Cypher approaches the window, Keloid lunges at him, snarling and foaming at the mouth, having been driven into a feral rage by the infection.
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* KillOnSight: Once the spread of the rabies virus reaches Montreal, the city is put under extreme martial law, one condition of which has armed soldiers patrolling the streets with orders to kill any rabid people they see. Some soldiers are shown using garbage trucks as patrol vehicles as a means of quickly disposing of the bodies of those infected.
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* NoKillLikeOverkill: Lloyd goes rabid while in the backseat of a taxi headed home and he attacks the driver who proceeds to swerve around the road until sideswiping another car, resulting in an explosion. The car then flips over, rolling over several times until it tumbles off the side of an overpass, falling 30-40 feet before crashing down on a lower road... only to get smashed into side-on by a semi and shoved into a ditch, just in case you thought both occupants could have survived the rollover and fall off the bridge.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Lloyd goes rabid while in the backseat of a taxi headed home and he attacks the driver who proceeds to swerve around the road until sideswiping another car, resulting in an explosion. The car then flips over, rolling over several times until it tumbles off the side of an overpass, falling 30-40 feet before crashing down on a lower road... only to get smashed into side-on by a semi and shoved into a ditch, just in case you thought both occupants could have survived the rollover and fall off the bridge.
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* UnluckyExtra: One man turns rabid inside a shopping mall close to where a little girl is having her picture taken with a mall Santa. He runs at full sprint towarda them snarling which prompts a soldier nearby to open fire on the man from behind. While the little girl is rushed to safety by the Santa's helper elf, the power of the gun results in the bullets going through and killing the infected man, but also killing the Santa.
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* ShoutOut: Chelsea compares Rise to Franchise/SpiderMan when a side-effect of the treatment is that Rose no longer needs glasses.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Hart causes the motorcycle accident that sets off a chain of events leading to Rose's deadly predicament and the citywide rabies outbreak.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Hart causes the motorcycle accident that sets off a chain of events leading to Rose's deadly predicament and the citywide rabies outbreak.outbreak.
!!The 2019 remake contains examples of:
* AssholeVictim: Rose’s only deliberate victim was [[spoiler:the wife of the doctor who transformed her, and while the wife’s mental state was unclear Doctor Burroughs certainly deserved to lose something for what he had done]].
* BodyHorror: Rose eventually manifests multiple tendrils as her body tries to ‘feed’.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rose’s parents died when she was a child and she was raised in a foster family.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Rose slits her own throat to stop herself causing a further outbreak, but it doesn’t kill her]].
* ExactEavesdropping: Rose’s self-confidence takes a particular knock when she overhears a couple of people talking dismissively about her at a party, driving her out of the party and leading to the accident.
* FacialHorror: Rose’s accident cost her a sizeable portion of her intestines, but the real damage is her face, with her lips practically torn off and her jaw wired shut so that she cannot talk on her own and can only take sustenance through a straw.
* {{Fingore}}: An early victim of Rose’s plague (not one she attacked herself) initially bites off the fingers of his nurse before he attacks her more brutally.
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:Doctor Burroughs performed a controversial procedure on his wife that saved her from being killed by the cancer that was killing her, but turned her into a new kind of mutation after the cancer itself became immortal]].
* HappilyAdopted: Rose was raised in a foster family, with her foster sister Chelsea still her emergency contact and treating Rose like an actual sister.
* HopeSpot: Rose and Chelsea talk about their joy at how their dreams have come true, with Chelsea about to be the closing model of a fashion show wearing a dress Rose designed… [[spoiler:and then Chelsea succumbs to the infection and is shot by the CDC operatives trying to contain the outbreak before she can do her walk]].
* HorrorHunger: Rose starts to experience intense unexplained hunger pains after the surgery.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Rose is completely unaware of her role in the pandemic even as it spreads around her as she didn’t know she had any contact with the initial cases.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Rose is immediately upset when she learns that Chelsea encouraged a co-worker Rose liked to talk to her rather than him doing it on his own.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Doctor Burroughs survives the outbreak with nobody aware of his role in events, with Rose now his prisoner and future test subject]].
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Doctor Burroughs notes that he’s bending the rules considering the nature of the operation, but he claims that he’s just bending these rules for the benefit of his patients and assures her that she’s not the first subject, even dismissing her dreams as hallucinations caused by the medication she’s on. [[spoiler:Ultimately confirmed when he reveals that he knew what was happening to Rose all along]].
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Doctor Burroughs claims he’s doing it to eliminate death, but his dismissal of the victims of Rose’s infection makes it clear that he doesn’t care about the side-effects so long as he gets more material]].
* OutOfCharacterAlert: Rose was a vegetarian before the accident, but after the operation she finds herself craving meat juices and contemplates eating a raw steak.
* PatientZero: Rose demonstrates no sign of the disease herself, but everyone she bites starts to manifest a mutated form of rabies provoking a feral insanity, which is then passed on their victims.
* ShoutOut: Chelsea compares Rise to Franchise/SpiderMan when a side-effect of the treatment is that Rose no longer needs glasses.
* ThatWasNotADream: Rose initially assumes that her attacks on her victims are just dreams, as she wakes up with no trace of blood on her and never ‘attacked’ anyone she knew well (early victims were another patient at the clinic and a stranger she met at a club).
* TragicMonster: As in the original, Rose’s transformation was the result of an attempt to help her after a terrible accident, although in this case she genuinely didn’t know she was doing anything.
*WhoWantsToLiveForever: As the film ends, [[spoiler:Rose is left trapped by Doctor Burroughs, unable to even kill herself to escape his plans to use her as a test subject]].
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!!The 2019 remake contains examples of:
* AssholeVictim: Rose’s only deliberate victim was [[spoiler:the wife of the doctor who transformed her, and while the wife’s mental state was unclear Doctor Burroughs certainly deserved to lose something for what he had done]].
* BodyHorror: Rose eventually manifests multiple tendrils as her body tries to ‘feed’.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Rose’s parents died when she was a child and she was raised in a foster family.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Rose slits her own throat to stop herself causing a further outbreak, but it doesn’t kill her]].
* ExactEavesdropping: Rose’s self-confidence takes a particular knock when she overhears a couple of people talking dismissively about her at a party, driving her out of the party and leading to the accident.
* FacialHorror: Rose’s accident cost her a sizeable portion of her intestines, but the real damage is her face, with her lips practically torn off and her jaw wired shut so that she cannot talk on her own and can only take sustenance through a straw.
* {{Fingore}}: An early victim of Rose’s plague (not one she attacked herself) initially bites off the fingers of his nurse before he attacks her more brutally.
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:Doctor Burroughs performed a controversial procedure on his wife that saved her from being killed by the cancer that was killing her, but turned her into a new kind of mutation after the cancer itself became immortal]].
* HappilyAdopted: Rose was raised in a foster family, with her foster sister Chelsea still her emergency contact and treating Rose like an actual sister.
* HopeSpot: Rose and Chelsea talk about their joy at how their dreams have come true, with Chelsea about to be the closing model of a fashion show wearing a dress Rose designed… [[spoiler:and then Chelsea succumbs to the infection and is shot by the CDC operatives trying to contain the outbreak before she can do her walk]].
* HorrorHunger: Rose starts to experience intense unexplained hunger pains after the surgery.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Rose is completely unaware of her role in the pandemic even as it spreads around her as she didn’t know she had any contact with the initial cases.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Rose is immediately upset when she learns that Chelsea encouraged a co-worker Rose liked to talk to her rather than him doing it on his own.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Doctor Burroughs survives the outbreak with nobody aware of his role in events, with Rose now his prisoner and future test subject]].
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Doctor Burroughs notes that he’s bending the rules considering the nature of the operation, but he claims that he’s just bending these rules for the benefit of his patients and assures her that she’s not the first subject, even dismissing her dreams as hallucinations caused by the medication she’s on. [[spoiler:Ultimately confirmed when he reveals that he knew what was happening to Rose all along]].
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Doctor Burroughs claims he’s doing it to eliminate death, but his dismissal of the victims of Rose’s infection makes it clear that he doesn’t care about the side-effects so long as he gets more material]].
* OutOfCharacterAlert: Rose was a vegetarian before the accident, but after the operation she finds herself craving meat juices and contemplates eating a raw steak.
* PatientZero: Rose demonstrates no sign of the disease herself, but everyone she bites starts to manifest a mutated form of rabies provoking a feral insanity, which is then passed on their victims.
* ShoutOut: Chelsea compares Rise to Franchise/SpiderMan when a side-effect of the treatment is that Rose no longer needs glasses.
* ThatWasNotADream: Rose initially assumes that her attacks on her victims are just dreams, as she wakes up with no trace of blood on her and never ‘attacked’ anyone she knew well (early victims were another patient at the clinic and a stranger she met at a club).
* TragicMonster: As in the original, Rose’s transformation was the result of an attempt to help her after a terrible accident, although in this case she genuinely didn’t know she was doing anything.
*WhoWantsToLiveForever: As the film ends, [[spoiler:Rose is left trapped by Doctor Burroughs, unable to even kill herself to escape his plans to use her as a test subject]].
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* OpenHeartDentistry: Rose has her accident within spitting distance of an experimental plastic surgery clinic, and figuring she won't live long enough to get to a "real" hospital, they decide to use their techniques to save her life. Unfortunately, they succeed.
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* LesbianVampire: Mildly implied when Rose attacks Judy Glasberg in the jacuzzi.
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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.
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Young Rose (adult film star Marilyn Chambers) is severely injured in a freak highway accident in the 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.
