Rabid Love, Get Your Shots

Wow! This is a terrific horror film.  The question is, which type? Slasher? Monster? Or maybe one of those Cronenberg style body horror ones? Taboo...icky...gory...and to some extent a slow burn.  A lot is rolled into this one, and we meet some great babes and hunks.  Bikinis, pre-marital sex, a lot of beer drinking, and some rock 'n roll!  Today we look at a film set in 1984, 2023's "Rabid Love," directed by Paul J. Porter.

Heather (Hayley Derryberry) has just graduated from college and her fawning BF John (Porter) will probably propose to her. Unsure, but with nothing else to fall back on, Heather figures she'll say 'yes' when he pops the question at the cabin in the woods getaway they will go on with their three friends. The sultry bikini babe, and very naughty Summer (Hannah Landberg) and her BF, the drunk brute Adam (Josh Hammond) will be along.  The sultry fifth wheel will be Julie (Jessica Sonneborn). These five provide great cheese and beef to the viewer...but will they stay that way. A lot of beer drinking, mostly by Adam occurs, and the gals will frolic in bikinis. In the woods John meets the weird nature photographer David (Brandon Stacy).  David isn't really a nature photographer...he's a MAD SCIENTIST wannabe who President Reagan fired for being demented...kind of the point of being a mad scientist. David manages to inject serum into John that will cause him to...change.

The friends are taken by the supposed sweet David not knowing he is conducting experiments.  Meanwhile, something is in the woods and is shredding hippie animal rights advocates.  We see these graphic killing but are they from a monster or something, or someone else? Remember that prick David gave John? Yep...the change begins and it will be a downward spiral.  See, David is perfecting a drug that will eventually be airborne that could wipe out entire armies.  He is...well, you'll see.  The fate of the babes and hunks will be, at time, painful to watch.

Does the sultry nymphomaniac Summer have a shot at reaching the end credits?  Will John be able to propose to Heather?  Will David get funding from Fauci or Soros to continue his humanity-eliminating experiment?  This is a gut wrenching film that will have you squirming.  When the end credits roll, you would have seen one heck of a horror film that never masquerades as a comedy, love story, or witty drama.  See "Rabid Love" and stay away from cabins in the woods.  

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