Reviews of Bliss and Rabid on Gruesome Magazine 101

This week, the Grue-Crew celebrate Women in Horror with a pair of gory female drive horror films. The first film this week, RABID from directors Jen and Sylvia Soska, follows Laura Vandervoort in a remake of the 1970s David Cronenburg Classic. The second film, BLISS from director Joe Begos, follows Dora Madison in a cautionary tale of vampires and drug addiction.

Doc Rotten from Horror News Radio. Jeff Mohr from Decades of Horror: The Classic Era. And Crystal Cleveland, the Livin6Dead6irl from Decades of Horror: 1980s share their thoughts about this week’s awesome collection of streaming horror films. Joining the crew this week is Horror News Radio co-host, Dave Dreher!

Gruesome Magazine Podcast – Episode 101
BLISS – RABID

RABID

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.

IMDb

• Director: Jen Soska (co-director), Sylvia Soska (co-director)
• Cast: Laura Vandervoort, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Ted Atherton

Release: February 4, 2020, from Shout! Factory

BLISS

A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex, and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.

IMDb

• Director: Joe Begos
• Cast: Dora Madison, Tru Collins, Rhys Wakefield

Release: Available on SHUDDER beginning January 30, 2020

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Doc Rotten

Editor-In-Chief / Founder / Podcast Producer at Horror News Radio

Doc Rotten is the founder of Gruesome Magazine. He is also a film critic for Gruesome Magazine and the podcast host & producer for Horror News Radio, Monster Movie Podcast, Decades of Horror: 1970s, The American Horror Story Fan Podcast and Hannibal Fan Podcast. He is also co-host of the Dracula podcast on TV TALK and is a contributing reviewer for HorrorNews.Net and Widescreen Warrior.

Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.