New Jersey Stage 2016: Issue 1 | Page 89

SHARE BUTTON Rabid Dogs by Eric Hillis There was a time when every successful French movie seemed to receive an English language remake, but in recent years we’ve seen Francophone filmmakers remake cult movies from other territories, with Franck Khalfoun and Jacques Audiard adapting William NewJerseyStage.com Lustig’s Maniac and James Toback’s Fingers respectively. Now Eric Hannezo (a producer turned director who I’m assuming is French; apologies to Quebecois readers if he’s one of your own) delivers a remake of Mario Bava’s gritty 1974 Italian crime thriller Rabid Dogs. 2016 - ISSUE 1 Table of Contents 89