Rabid(2019)
2019 · Sylvia Soska & Jen Soska · 107 min
The quiet Rose works in women's fashion clothing, hoping to be a designer. A traffic accident damages her face. She gets experimental stem cell treatment, leaving her stronger and prettier than ever - but there's a side effect.
Science Fiction · Horror
5.8272 votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
4/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How scary is Rabid?
Rabid builds its horror out of body transformation and creeping loss of control rather than jump scares, letting the dread grow as the main character's body and mind start changing in ways she can't stop. The fear is mostly physical here, tied to medical experiments gone wrong, infection, and violent outbursts, with blood and messy practical effects used to make the transformation feel real and gross. There's also a sadder, more psychological layer about vanity, identity, and losing yourself, which sits underneath the more shocking body horror moments. It's a fit for fans of gooey, weird creature-style horror who don't mind some real gore mixed with a bit of emotional weight.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Rabid rates psychological 3/5, visceral 4/5, gore 4/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 3 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 4 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 25 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 85 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 65 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A slow character-driven build that gradually tightens into escalating body-horror dread before boiling over into a chaotic, high-intensity final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4.
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