RABID is my favourite early Cronenberg film - it captures a coldly clinical and gritty kind of '70s horror in a perfect way, similar to the works of Romero from the era. So when I heard that the directors of AMERICAN MARY were making a new version, I wasn't particularly interested. How would it improve? The answer is it doesn't, not by a long shot, and instead it turns out to be typically cheap and digital-looking and entirely routine. The film shares superficial similarities with the likes of THE NEON DEMON, another overrated yawner, but turns out to be nothing more than an exercise in bloodshed and mayhem. It might be gruelling but it's also largely depressing, with superficial writing and nobody to root for throughout. A waste of time, then.
Review of Rabid
