Rabies

Billed as the first-ever Israeli slasher movie, the slick, low-budget RABIES is a genre-defying horror satire loaded with humour and unpredictable twists.Despite a familiar premise - a group of innocents stalked by a killer in the woods - the flick quickly moves to unexpected territory. Driven by a chain reaction of lethal misunderstandings, events accelerate towards an inevitable climactic bloodbath, though perhaps not the one expected.First-time directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado disembowel genre clichés in their handling of this bloody carnage in the woods. Worthy of the title, RABIES is a satisfying and unorthodox assault on the nervous system.UNITED CHANNEL MOVIES