Rabid | 1977
David Cronenberg’s early visceral horror has Rose (Marilyn Chambers, star of the hardcore Behind The Green Door) developing a bloodsucking growth in her armpit after undergoing experimental surgery.
Like his earlier Shivers, it’s shot around Montréal, where Rose’s first victim discharges himself from Hôpital Notre-Dame, 1560 Sherbrooke Est, at Parc La Fontaine, and begins to spread the rabies-like infection.
The shopping mall, where the cop guns down a rabid attacker and also – whoops! – kills Santa Claus, is the Cavendish Mall, 5800 Boulevard Cavendish at Côte St Luc.
Rose hides out with her friend in the highrise apartment block 2121 St-Mathieu at Avenue Lincoln, in Shaughnessy Village, southwest of the city centre.
