Rabies

What I learned from this movie: playing tennis makes you more likely to step into a rusty bear trap than kill a park ranger with an axe. What I also learned from this movie: If all nature preserves were outfitted with landmines, more nature would be preserved. What I finally learned from this movie: "Rabies" in Israeli means no pine nuts in the hummus.

Call me conservative but this is a bit of a stretch: A random assortment of 20-40 year olds happen by chance into the same grove. Half of them happen to suddenly turn into violent psychopaths (without contracting rabies, as the title falsely suggests) and the rest are accident-prone idiots. Coincidentally, the woods are full of pit and bear (!) traps and live mines (!!). Add tear-jerking melodrama, infidelity and incest to the mix, and resulting is the world's first totally random slasher pic.

I've been sat here for five minutes trying to think of something to say. There isn't anything. It went straight out of my mind once I'd left the cinema. Supposedly this is Isreal's first horror film. Hopefully it will be their last.

A lot of people clearly missed the mark on this film. Israel's first horror film and it's a goodie. A highly political film on the state of Israeli life and politics disguised as a thrilling slasher film. The most multi-layered and sophisticated horror film since Martyrs. Wonderful.

No matter what you're expecting, this film wont be it. A horror film where almost everyone is the villain, and almost no-one is a hero. If you find that intruiging at all, you could do a lot worse than spending 90 minutes watching this movie.

Had its moments...but why the hell was it called "Rabies"???????