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Rose is the lead human villainous protagonist of the 1977 body-horror film, Rabid, directed by Canadian filmmaker, David Cronenberg.
Following a horrific motorcycle crash, Rose was given a radical new procedure in order to replace her damaged skin and organs. However, the surgery would have severe side effects that would turn Rose blood thirsty as she only could ingest human blood and also gave her a new red phallic like stinger under her arm.
The victims she infected by biting or piercing with her stinger would soon become pale-like zombies foaming blue foam at the mouth and becoming feral as they also now feasted on only human blood staring a epidemic that would spread throughout Montreal and Quebec during the events of the movie.
She was portrayed by the late Marilyn Chambers.
Personality
Despite the events she causes, Rose is a good, matured, intelligent, and cunning person who truly loved and cared for her boyfriend, Hart, and her best friend, Mindy. Following her transformation and ability to only digest human blood, she becomes more seductive and ominous as she herself either simply does realize she is attacking and infecting people or that she does but is doing it only to satisfy her urges.
Throughout the movie, Rose changes as she appears cold and evil to others as a way to get blood but shows remorse and control around Mindy until her urges overtake her conscious and she kills her best friend and infects her. However, after finally reuniting with Reed, he attempts to subdue and stop her as he tries to convince her she needs help as she is the cause of the epidemic.
However, she eventually knocks him down a flight of stairs and although she could have ate him and infected him, she chooses not to as her love for Reed despite everything is stronger than her urge and kisses him as she looks for someone to infect to prove to Reed that she is not the cause of what has happened. This all eventually leads to her being killed by the infected man she picks up.
Biography
In the Quebec countryside, Hart Reed and his girlfriend, Rose, are riding on Reeds motorcycle. Meanwhile, while swinging his van across a narrow road to make a u-turn, a driver stalls the vehicle that does not restart.
Hart and Rose soon come down the road while going extremely fast and without any time to stop, drives off the road to avoid the collision. Hart suffers minor injuries while Rosie is severely injured and burned by the flames when the motorcycle explodes.
A local patient from the Keloid Clinic for Plastic Surgery spots the explosion nearby and alerts the staff who send out a ambulance for the pair. They are both transported to the clinic where head doctor, Dan Keloid, decides to perform a radical new procedure on Rose.
He uses morphogenetically neutral grafts to her chest and abdomen in the hope that it will differentiate and replace the damaged skin and organs. One month later, Hart is released while Rose remains in a coma.
Rose soon abruptly awakens from her coma screaming, prompting patient Lloyd Walsh to calm her down and hold her hand, but she pierces his skin as she holds him. When asked, Lloyd cannot remember anything afterwards and the doctor does not know what caused the injury on his right arm; it is only known that his blood is not clotting from the wound and he cannot feel anything on his right side.
While Keloid transfers him to Montreal General Hospital for further evaluation, his experimental procedures on Rose are revealed to have caused a mutation in her body that made her able to only subsist on human blood. A new organ resembling a red phallic stinger emerges from a small orifice below Rose's armpit, which pierces her victims and draws their blood.
One night, Rose leaves the clinic to feed upon a nearby cow's blood which makes her vomit. A drunken farmer tries to attack and rape her, but she pierces and feeds on him before calling Hart to pick her up leaving the farmer in his barn.
The next night, Rose attacks a young nurse in a hot tub, and then hides her unconscious body in a freezer.
The next day, Lloyd discharges himself from the clinic. He hails a taxi to take him to the airport. But during the trip, Lloyd, already looking deathly pale, transforms into a foaming, green-eye zombie-like person and attacks the driver, biting out part of his neck making the driver lose control of the car. The taxi breaks through a bridge guardrail and the car falls to the freeway below where it is totaled by an approaching truck, killing both the driver and the infected Lloyd.
At the clinic, Dr. Keloid is examining the unconscious Rose. He notices the strange opening under her arm, but Rose wakes up and the phallic syringe emerges and strikes him in the hand as she grasps him into a embrace as he loses conscious from the pain.
At a nearby diner, the farmer, infected the previous night by Rose, walks in, bleeding from his left eyeball where Rose's stuck the phallic thing, and after asking for chicken, he attacks and bites a waitress before he is subdued by the cook and a few patrons.
At the clinic, Rose phones Hart to come to her aid, for she feels that she's in trouble. Hart calls Murray Cypher to tag along with him. Later that day, Dr. Keloid, who seems like he forgot what had happened with Rose, goes into the O.R. to operate on a patient when he suddenly begins foaming at the mouth and also transforms into a green-eyed zombie who proceeds to hack off a nurse's finger with surgical scissors and drinks her blood.
A few orderlies attack back at the vicious Dr. Keloid as he strikes and attempts to bite them, as Rose takes advantage of the chaos and confusion to make her escape from the clinic.
She hitches a ride to Montreal from a passing truck driver, who has food in the cab of his truck. After he offers some to the famished Rose, she eats it and it seems to satisfy her momentarily, but she then vomits it back up, eventually feeding on the driver as she has done to the others. He is woken up by a highway patrolman and goes on his way. The trucker returns that night to a depot where he transforms and attacks his colleagues at the place, infecting some of them before being subdued.
At the police station, the chief of police, Claude LePointe, meets with Hart, Murray and a few public health officials who talk of an epidemic. Just then, as Hart and Murray watch a TV broadcast of various other reports of attacks, an officer, who was apparently bitten by the infected Dr. Keloid at the clinic, appears growling and foaming at the mouth.
The infected officer attacks Hart only to be shot dead by the other officers. To stop the disease from progressing, everyone at the scene, including Hart and Murray, are to be held at the police station for 48 hours.
Hart calls Mindy Kent who is Rose's best friend, and is pleased to hear that Rose has been in touch with her. Over the phone, Hart tells Mindy to keep Rose at her apartment until he can get there.
Meanwhile, Rose arrives in Montreal, meets with Mindy, and asks to stay with her in her apartment for a few days, but refuses to explain why. Mindy watches another TV broadcast detailing a new strain of lethal rabies that is now reporting all over Montreal.
That night, Rose goes out to the local red-light district and visits a sex cinema. A leering patron sits next to her to fondle her, only to become a victim himself.
The next day, Claude LePointe is riding in a limo with a local health official to inform the mayor that the situation is getting out of control. Just then, the limo is blocked at a construction sight, and two infected crewmen attack, putting a jackhammer through the limo door and dragging the shocked driver, whose thigh was injured by the jackhammer, out to feed on him, while the official and LePointe are forced to leave their driver for dead as they barely escape by driving themselves away in reverse.
Elsewhere, Mindy is riding on a subway train when an infected woman attacks another passenger, causing panic and forcing Mindy and the rest of the passengers to flee after the train arrives at the station.
On TV, Dr. Royce Gentry talks about the dozens of rabies cases popping up all over the city, and advises a "shoot-to-kill" policy to prevent the infected from infecting others. Rose goes out to a local shopping mall filled with Christmas shoppers.
Another leering man approaches her to make small talk, and to try to pick her up. As Rose agrees to walk with him, he asks her for a light, but she tells him that she doesn't smoke. The man asks another man standing nearby for a light, and the man turns around revealing the now infected victim who was bitten by the infected woman on the train as he proceeds to bite and infect the man Rose is with.
Panic breaks out in the mall as two armed security guards appear and shoot the infected man dead, as well as an unfortunate man dressed as Santa. The guards shoot the wounded man who tried to pick up Rose as well, since he is now infected. Rose again slips away unnoticed.
When Mindy arrives home, Rose hides in her room, in blood-hunger. She tells Mindy not to come into her room for she is not feeling well. Meanwhile, extreme martial law is declared in Montreal and all the surrounding areas.
Dr. Royce Gentry makes another TV appearance to announce that the current rabies shots don't appear to be working. But he and his men have developed a vaccine to administer to those not infected with the virus. Those already infected, however, must be killed to prevent the epidemic from spreading any further.
At a National Guard road block to check for people infected, Hart and Murray view a long convoy of soldiers in NBC suits and riding on garbage trucks heading into the city to assist the local authorities with the body disposal.
Hart then takes Murray home and drives off in Murray's car to look for Rose. When Murray walks in his house, he finds his baby dead and is attacked by his now-infected wife. Whether Murray is killed or survives albeit ending up infected himself is unknown.
As Hart drives through the deserted city, a infected maniac jumps on the car, but is shot dead by a militia marksman. Soldiers in bio-warfare suits remove the infected man's body to dump it into the nearby garbage truck and spray disinfectant on the windshield and permit him to carry on his way.
At Mindy's apartment, she watches a news report about a possible "carrier" of this lethal disease which has now been traced back to the Keloid Clinic, who is possibly immune. Rose walks into the room. A little later, Hart arrives to find Rose feasting on Mindy's body.
Hart finally realizes that Rose is the carrier of the virus and tries to reason with her to seek treatment, but Rose refuses to believe him. She is in denial that she is feasting on blood and the one responsible for the city-wide epidemic that has now claimed thousands of people.
She tries to run, but he chases after her. In a struggle, Hart falls down a fire escape ladder and is knocked out. Rose runs into the apartment building lobby, where she picks up another man in the lobby and has him take her back to his apartment.
To see if Hart's accusations are true, Rose infects the guy with her phallic piece and then locks herself in the man's apartment and intends to stay there until she can see whether or not he becomes sick. Rose dials Mindy's phone number, and Hart stumbles back into the apartment to answer it.
Rose tells Hart what she is doing, but he knows what will happen and frantically tells her to get out of the man's apartment. Hart sits helplessly at the receiver, which he smashes, as the infected man in his apartment wakes up, growling and foaming at the mouth, and approaches Rose killing her off screen.
The next morning, Montreal is nearly deserted. The streets are quiet except for distant gunfire and the sound of police and ambulance sirens. Soldiers in bio-ware suits find Rose's stiff, open-eyed body, laying next to some garbage cans in an alley.
The body collectors pick up her body, toss it in the back of a garbage truck, and drive away, not realizing that she is the carrier of the virus and possibly the only solution and antidote to the mayhem that continues to plague the city.
Victims
-Although Rose did not infect everyone who eventually got the virus, she was the initial carrier and spreader, therefore, any victims that were seen infected on screen are somehow indirect victims of Rose.
-Despite a infected person not being seen killed, it was revealed that eventually sometime after the infection, the rabid person would fully succumb to their wounds and fully die therefore each infected person is considered dead.
- 1: Unnamed Farmer | Infected by Rose and later succumbed to his infection.
- 2: Lloyd Walsh | Infected by Rose, succumbed to his infection, and was crushed in a truck crash.
- 3: Unnamed Waitress | Infected by farmer and later succumbed to her infection.
- 4: Unnamed Cab Driver | Killed in truck collision.
- 5: Judy Glasberg | Killed by Rose.
- 6: Dr. Dan Keloid | Infected by Rose and later succumbed to his infection.
- 6: Unnamed Nurse | Infected by Dan Keloid and later succumbed to her infection.
- 7: Unnamed Officer | Infected by Dan Keloid, succumbed to his infection, and was shot down by a fellow officer at the police station.
- 8: Smooth Eddy | Infected by Rose and later succumbed to his infection.
- 9: Unnamed Colleague | Infected by Smooth Eddy and later succumbed to his infection.
- 10: Unnamed Movie-Goer | Infected by Rose and later succumbed to his infection.
- 11-12: Two Unnamed Construction Workers | Infected by a unknown source and later succumbed to their infections.
- 13: Unnamed Limousin Driver | Attacked and devoured by the two infected construction workers.
- 14: Unnamed Women on the Train | Infected by a unknown source and later succumbed to her infection.
- 15: Unnamed Bald Man | Infected by woman on the train, succumbed to infection, and was later shot down by police officers in the mall.
- 16: Unnamed Young Man | Bitten by bald man and was later shot in the head to prevent reanimation from infection.
- 17-18: Murry Cypher's Wife and Child | Infected by a unknown source and succumbed to infection.
- Unknown: Murry Cypher | Attacked by infected wife, Fate left unknown.
- 19: Unnamed Infected Civilian | Infected by unknown source, succumbed to infection, and later shot down by bio-suited soilders.
- 20: Mindy Kent | Infected by Rose and later succumbed to her infection.
- 21: Unknown Man in the Lobby | Infected by Rose and later succumbed to infection.
- 22: Herself (Rose) | Allowed herself to be trapped in room with infected man in lobby and killed off screen.
- 23: Unknown amount of unnamed citizens, at least a few thousands | Infected by the "Rabies" like virus that Rose contracted from her surgery.