Rabid

Rabid (2019) is a Canadian sci-fi horror you can watch online on iFILM, directed by the Soska Sisters — Jen and Sylvia — as a reimagining of David Cronenberg's 1977 body-horror cult film. Laura Vandervoot leads as Rose, a soft-spoken fashion assistant dreaming of becoming a designer.

A car accident leaves Rose's face destroyed and her ambitions in ruins. A secretive clinic offers experimental stem cell treatment, and it works — she emerges healed, radiant, and strangely magnetic. The transformation is real. So are the consequences: people around her start turning violent, then worse.

The Soskas use the genre to press on something pointed — the fashion industry's appetite for women's bodies and the cost of fitting its standards. It's nastier than expected and doesn't soften the ending. Stream Rabid (2019) online on iFILM.