Rabid

Dr. William Burroughs is named after writer William S. Burroughs. As Rose is healing from the procedure, Dr. Burroughs actually listens to a recording of "Advice For Young People", in which the author William S. Burroughs talks about psychic vampires: "If, after having been exposed to someone's presence, you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia. We don't like to hear the word 'vampire' here. Trying to improve our PR. 'Interdependence' is the keyword. Enlightened interdependence. Life in all its rich variety. Take a little; leave a little. However, by the inexorable logistics of the vampiric process, they always take more than they leave."

Dr. Keloid says the accident punctured Rose's abdomen, but the bandages are on her chest.

Featured in The Quiet Revolution: State, Society and the Canadian Horror Film - Part Two: An Emerging Revolution: New Territories & Diverse Fears (2019)