Rabid is a 1977 horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. Marilyn Chambers stars, with Frank Moore, Howard Ryshpan, Joe Silver and Robert A. Silverman, who would go on to become a regular Cronenberg actor, appearing in The Brood, Scanners, Naked Lunch and eXistenZ.

Furious; raging; extremely violent.

Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist.

marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist"

Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox.

Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus.

showing clinical symptoms of the rabies disease, such as aggression, drooling, or paralysis.

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