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Rabid (1977 Film)
''Rabid'' is a 1977 independent film, independent body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. An international co-production of Canada and the United States, the film stars Marilyn Chambers in the lead role, supported by Frank Moore (Canadian actor), Frank Moore, Joe Silver, and Howard Ryshpan. Chambers plays a woman who, after being injured in a motorcycle accident and undergoing a surgical operation, develops an orifice under one of her armpits that hides a phallic/clitoral stinger she uses to feed on people's blood. Those she bites become infected, and then feed upon others, spreading the disease exponentially. The result is massive chaos, starting in the Quebec countryside, and ending up in Montreal. ''Rabid'' made $1 million in Canada, making it one of the highest-grossing Canadian films of all time. A Rabid (2019 film), remake of the same name, directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska, was released in 2019. Plot Rose Miller and her boyfriend, Hart Reed, are involved in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases, and the intertwining of the psychological, physical, and technological. Cronenberg is best known for exploring these themes through sci-fi horror films such as '' Shivers'' (1975), '' Scanners'' (1981), '' Videodrome'' (1983) and '' The Fly'' (1986), though he has also directed dramas, psychological thrillers and gangster films. Cronenberg's films have polarized critics and audiences alike; he has earned critical acclaim and has sparked controversy for his depictions of gore and violence. ''The Village Voice'' called him "the most audacious and challenging narrative director in the English-speaking world". His films have won numerous awards, including the Special Jury Prize for '' Crash'' at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, a unique award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabid (2019 Film)
''Rabid'' is a 2019 Canadian body horror film directed and co-written by Jen and Sylvia Soska and starring Laura Vandervoort, Ben Hollingsworth, and CM Punk. It is a remake of the 1977 film of the same name directed by David Cronenberg. ''Rabid'' premiered at the London FrightFest Film Festival on August 26, 2019. Plot After a young fashion designer, Rose, suffers a disfiguring accident, she undergoes an experimental stem cell skin and tissue graft treatment performed by Dr. William Burroughs. Rose ends up attacking several people, as a parasite emerges from her face leading to a form of rabies where minutes to hours later her victims transform. Meanwhile, the fashion designer Gunter decides Chelsea, Rose's best friend and a fashion model, will launch Rose's first exhibition. Brad, a fashion photographer who formerly dated Rose, reenters her life. After the epidemic spreads and Chelsea kills Gunter and is shot by police, Brad and Rose go to Dr. Burroughs to check on anomalie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Fulford (journalist)
Robert Marshall Blount Fulford (February 13, 1932 – October 15, 2024) was a Canadian journalist, magazine editor, essayist, and public intellectual. He lived in Toronto, Ontario. Background Fulford was born on February 13, 1932, in Ottawa, Ontario, the third of four children, to Frances (Blount) Fulford and A. E. Fulford, a journalist and editor at Canadian Press, who had covered the Dionne quintuplets and the 1939 royal tour of Canada of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. He grew up in The Beaches neighbourhood in Toronto and was a childhood friend of Glenn Gould, who was his next door neighbour. In 1952, he and Gould founded New Music Associates, which produced and promoted Gould's first three public performances, including the Gould's debut performance of Bach's '' Goldberg Variations''. He attended Malvern Collegiate Institute and struggled academically due to undiagnosed Attention Deficit Disorder. Fulford met his first wife, writer Jocelyn Jean Dingman Fulford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shivers (1975 Film)
''Shivers'', also known as ''The Parasite Murders'' and ''They Came from Within'', and, for Canadian distribution in French, ''Frissons'' ( ; 'chills' or 'shivers'), is a 1975 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry, and Barbara Steele. Plot At Starliner Towers, a luxury apartment complex outside Montreal, Dr. Emil Hobbes murders a young woman named Annabelle. He slices open her stomach, pours acid into the wound and then commits suicide. Nick Tudor, who has been suffering from stomach convulsions, finds their bodies but leaves without calling the police. The two bodies are found by resident doctor Roger St. Luc, who calls the police. Hobbes' medical partner, Rollo Linsky, tells St. Luc that he and Hobbes had been working on a project to create "a parasite that can take over the function of a human organ." After suffering more convulsions, Nick leaves work early. He vomits a parasite over the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Negin
Louis Negin (20 October 1929 – 2 December 2022) was a British-born Canadian actor, best known for his roles in the films of Guy Maddin."Enchantment". ''In Toronto'', September 2011. Career Born in London, England, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Negin had his earliest film and television roles in the 1950s Canadian dramatic anthology series ''First Performance'', and as a chorus member in Tyrone Guthrie's 1957 film of the Stratford Festival production of ''Oedipus Rex''. He appeared in the Stratford Festival production of ''Tamburlaine'', which had a run on Broadway in 1956,Louis Negin at the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. and later appeared in London productions of '' Fortune and Men's Eyes'' and his own pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter MacNeill
Peter MacNeill is a Canadian film and television actor and voice-over artist who has starred in numerous television series and films. His film credits have included '' The Hanging Garden'' (for which MacNeill won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997), '' Geraldine's Fortune'', '' Crash'', ''Dog Park'', ''Open Range'', ''A History of Violence'', and '' Regression''. On television, he has had roles in '' Queer as Folk'' (as Carl Horvath), '' Katts and Dog'' (as Sgt. Callahan), '' Traders'' (as Frank Larkin), '' The Eleventh Hour'' (as Warren Donohue), '' PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal'' (as Ray Donahue) '' Call Me Fitz'' (as Ken Fitzpatrick), and ''The'' ''Good Witch'' series (as George O'Hanrahan). He is a two-time Gemini Award winner. In January 2023, he was named the winner of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement in acting at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards.Etan Vlessing"Ryan Reynolds, Simu Liu, Cathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlasta Vrana
Vlasta may refer to: *Vlasta (given name) Vlasta is a woman’s name. The Slavic base of the word, vlast, means ''homeland''. It is also the short form of the masculine names Vlastimil and Vlastislav. Name Day *In the Czech calendar: ''December 23'' *In the Slovak calendar: ''February ... * Vlasta (mythology), a leader in the Maidens' War in Czech mythology * '' The Death of Vlasta'', an opera by Otakar Ostrčil * ''Vlasta'' (magazine), Czech magazine for women See also * {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Boylan (Canadian Actor)
John Boylan is a Canadian film and television actor, recently best known for his supporting roles as Gary Strange in ''Being Erica'', Deputy Police Chief Talbot in '' Blue Murder'' and Bishop Richard Cushing in '' The Kennedys''. Early life Boylan attended the National Theatre School of Canada. Career He has also appeared in the television series '' The Hitchhiker'', ''Road to Avonlea'', ''Side Effects'', '' North of 60'', '' Earth: Final Conflict'', '' The City'', '' Instant Star'', '' The Newsroom'' and '' Queer as Folk'', and the films ''Clearcut'', '' Us Two'', ''To Catch a Killer'', '' Time to Say Goodbye?'' and '' The Path to 9/11''. Other work Boylan works primarily as an acting teacher at Toronto, Ontario's Centre for the Arts,"Creating the art of economic adversity". ''Toronto Star'', February 22, 2009. and has also taught acting at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), George Brown College, New York University, the University of Minnesota, the Yale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Moyle
Allan Moyle (born 1947) is a Canadian film director. He is best known for directing the films '' Pump Up the Volume'' (1990) and ''Empire Records'' (1995). Career His first major film was ''Times Square'' (1980). During the editing of the film he clashed with producer Robert Stigwood who reportedly wanted dialogue scenes removed and replaced with more musical sequences, so that the accompanying soundtrack recording could be expanded to a double-album. Moyle refused to make the cuts so Stigwood fired him and made the cuts himself. In the eighties he wrote a novel that was never published but became the basis for his screenplay of his movie '' Pump Up the Volume'', which he also directed. It was released in 1990. Moyle has since directed '' The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag'' (1992), ''Empire Records'' (1995), '' New Waterford Girl'' (1999) - for which he won the Best Direction Canadian Comedy Award in 2001, ''XChange'' (2000), and the made-for-TV movies ''Jailbait'' (2000) and '' M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terri Hanauer
Terri Hanauer (born March 25, 1964, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian- American actress, film director, screenwriter and photographer. Biography Hanauer grew up in Canada and later moved to the United States; she holds dual citizenship in both countries. She studied at the New York University, where she obtained her degree in Theatre Arts. Later she worked as an actress in both America and Canada. Hanauer's debut in movies came in 1977's horror film David Cronenberg's 1977 '' Rabid'' which starred Marilyn Chambers as the lead. Hanauer's death in the film was her getting killed by Chamber's character in a spa, then being put in a medium-sized freeze bitten with rabies. Her death scene is used on mostly all American VHS and DVD covers since the early 80's. at the time of filming, she was credited as Terry Schonblum. Hanauer began acting under the name Hanauer in 1981 with the television '' Scruples''. Then she played several roles in television films and television series inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Roman
Susan Roman (born April 17) is a Canadian television and voice actress and voice director, best known for voice acting the role of Lita/Sailor Jupiter in the Canada DiC (and later Cloverway/CWi) dub of the anime ''Sailor Moon''. She is one of the few voice actors to remain throughout the entire run of the Sailor Moon series. Career Early in her career, she appeared in Rabid, and starred in the television series Flappers. She was also a runner-up for the role of Chrissy in Three's Company. Roman's other best-known role was the voice of Melissa Raccoon from the second season of '' The Raccoons'' until the end of the series. She also provided the vocal characterization for Snowy's dog sounds in the television series ''The Adventures of Tintin''. In 2000, Roman voiced James the Red Engine in ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad''. She has also played Mayor Amelia in the English version of '' Mega Man Legends'', Mega Man Trigger in the English version of '' Mega Man Legends 2'', and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Gage
Patricia Gage (3 March 1940 – 31 January 2010) actratoronto.com, retrieved 24 May 2014Patricia Gage Obituary , obitsforlife.com, retrieved 24 May 2014 was a Scottish-born actress based in Canada. Gage has had roles in televised productions since the mid 1960s. In 1977, she played the role of ''Dr. Roxanne Keloid'' in 's horror film '' Rabid' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
