"Rabid" (2019)

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Hello all you movie lovers out there. I'm sure many of you are bummed and a little worried with the Corona virus going around and postponing movie premieres and avoiding the movie theaters a little frustrating with all the great films that are supposed to be coming out. Still we can enjoy a film at home and reflect how art can imitate life and vise versa. "Contagion" and "Outbreak" are prime examples to relate how things seem right now as well as this film I recently viewed that while it might stir up some fears will also remind you that we're lucky this virus has a high survival rate compared to what occurs in this film.

Rose (Laura Vandervoort) is a timid woman with aspirations of being a fashion designer and having her work be the next thing on the runway, but she's treated by many as a joke including her boss Gunter (Mackenzie Gray). One evening, one of her biggest hopes finally happens when her office crush Brad (Benjamin Hollingsworth) the photographer who wants to be a journalist ask her to be his date to one of the offices parties. It all seems like things are going her way until she overhears how her model friend and foster sister Chelsea (Hanneke Talbot) convinced Brad to ask her out as a favor.

Learning the truth, she takes off only to be hit by a van and have her face horrifically disfigured. Rose feels as though her life is over until she hears about an experimental stem cell treatment done by a Dr. William Burroughs (Ted Atterton) who promises remarkable results. The procedure is a success leaving Rose completely healed and looking more beautiful than before and giving her the confidence she has needed, yet Rose also is experiencing pains, blackouts and vivid images that seem to real to be dreams of her hunting and feeding on people. Unsure of what is real anymore, Rose tries to hold on to what she has unaware that she is only the beginning of an epidemic yet to come.

Frightening on so many levels. If the fears of disease spreading that can change humanity as we know it doesn't get you the possibility of an experimental surgery for health and beauty going wrong will. The idea of the next virus to infect human kind coming from an experiment gone wrong might very well be something that is stranger than fiction. With that and a femme fatale that goes from sweet and gentle to putting on a fur coat and goes hunting on the streets for prey gave the character this sense of transformation between the woman and the beast within. My only complaint is that it took most of the film for the character to get to her realization point leading to the final confrontation where most would have reach that point sooner. Still I feel this film deserves to walk off the catwalk with four G.M.Stars.

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Green Mountain Stars

 "Rabid" (2019) is available at Redbox and where movies are sold/streamed. 

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