Movie Description After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman (former adult film star Marilyn Chambers) develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood -- the only nourishment that will now sustain her. Vampire-like, she prowls the city of Montreal, using her sexual powers to attract victims, who she then infects with a particularly virulent strain of rabies. In no time at all, the city is reduced to a raging mass of rabid, salivating monsters and only an army of machine-gun-wielding soldiers can subdue them. David Cronenberg's horror film explores the relationships between sex and violence, between bodily disintegration and the disintegration of society.
| Credits | | Producer: | John Dunning | | Cast: | Gary McKeehan, Howard Ryshpan, J. Roger Periard, Patricia Gage, Susan Roman, Victor Desy |
| Details | | Edition: | Roger Corman Present's The Director's Series |
Notes DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Additional Release Material: Trailer - Theatrical - Preview Attractions Cast Biographies Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access, Theatrical Release: July 1977
Filmed in Montreal and Quebec, Canada, in Eastmancolor.
Began shooting November 1, 1976; completed shooting December 5, 1976. Released in Canada April 8, 1977; released in the USA July 1977.
Marilyn Chambers started out as the Whilone Proter & Gamble Ivory Snow baby; as an adult she starred in pornographic movies, her big hit being "Behind the Green Door." She has since abandoned porn for more mainstream movies.
Editorial Reviews "Cronenberg's cult classic..." Entertainment Weekly - Entertainment Weekly Staff (06/01/2004)
"[T]he Cronenberg 'body horror' flick in which the B touches almost subsume the intellectual content." Premiere - Howard Karren (07/01/2004)
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