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Shivers
Why this pick
Its sealed modern apartment block turns sexual anxiety and medical experimentation into a steadily escalating contagion nightmare, with the same chilly Canadian clinicality as Rabid.
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MOVIE1977 1h 31m CAN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
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The Brood
Why this pick
Another rigorously controlled Cronenberg nightmare in which an experimental clinic makes inner trauma physically dangerous; it shares Rabid’s bleak medical logic and bodily unease.
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The Fly
Why this pick
For Rabid’s tragic fusion of romance, scientific intervention, and inexorable bodily transformation, this is a more emotionally intense but equally tactile descent into body horror.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Why this pick
It matches Rabid’s paranoid epidemic momentum: ordinary urban life becomes hostile as a spreading biological threat quietly erases trust and individuality.
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Society
Why this pick
Its polished suburban surfaces conceal grotesque corporeal transgression, delivering the same uneasy sense that respectable institutions and bodies are fundamentally unsafe.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Rose and her boyfriend Hart get into a motorcycle accident in the Quebec countryside, caused by a van parked in the middle of the road, and then are sent to the nearby Keloid Clinic for Plastic Surgery. While Hart suffers a broken hand, a separated shoulder and a concussion, Rose is severely injured and burned by the incident. At the clinic, Dr. Dan Keloid decides to perform a radical new procedure on her, one which uses morphogenesis neutral skin grafting to her chest and abdomen in the hope that it will Cellular differentiation and replace the damaged skin and organs. One month later, Hart is released while Rose remains in a coma.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Marilyn Chambers
Rose
Frank Moore
Hart Read
Joe Silver
Murray Cypher
Patricia Gage
Dr. Roxanne Keloid
Susan Roman
Mindy Kent
Terri Hanauer
Judy Glasberg
Una Kay
Jackie
Riva Spier
Cecile