The Brood

The Brood

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The Brood

Art Hindle, Cindy Hinds, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald, Oliver Reed

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the hu...( read more  read more... )sband's investigation.

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  • October 29, 2009
    Unnerving exploration of the psyche follows a controversial therapist who is treating the ex-wife of a husband who seeks to take custody of their daughter. Eerie, deliberately paced rumination on rage and its manifestations culminates in a memorable climax that is truly horrifi...( read more)c. The graphic degeneration of the human body is a common theme in director David Cronenberg's work and this film is no exception. His script is clearly influenced by the messy real life divorce from his first wife and the subsequent custody battle for their daughter.
  • October 27, 2009
    Juliana Kelly: Thirty seconds after you're born you have a past and sixty seconds after that you begin to lie to yourself about it.

    An early Cronenberg horror flick. Basically that means that not only will the gore be well handled, but presented in a fucked up way. Low and beh...( read more)old, following mostly a lot of boring plot and characters, the last 15 minutes of this film are insane with disgusting actions involving a terrible birthing process of some crazy children.
  • October 15, 2009
    An interesting premise.

    While it's a little slow on the uptake...if you hold out, it redeems itself in the end.
  • August 25, 2009
    A very personal film for Cronenberg who was going through a divorce during the time of its making, The Brood has all the Cronenbergian motifs, plus great characterisation and a great performance from all involved.

    Dr. Raglan (Oliver Reed) who is experimenting with metaphysical r...( read more)age runs the Summerfree Institute. There he encourages his patience to indulge in allowing their inner anger to materialise in warts and blisters on their body. One of his patience is the demented Nola (Samantha Eggar) who has taken Raglan's therapy to the next stage. Her rage is apparently so potent that it results in The Brood, a savage group of dwarfs that emerge from the cysts on Nola's body. Unfortunately, Nola has another child, Candy and when her ex-husband, Frank (Art Hindle) finds that his wife is too unstable to look after their child he suppresses parental access. Nola goes even more insane and the brood ventures out to kill all those she believes have or may cause her harm. Although the carnage isn't excessively violent, the scene where Nola produces one of the dwarfs from a bloody sack and licks it clean leaves a nasty aftertaste.

    Cronenberg has long been associated with fear of biological change, but is surprising that not many have picked up on his fascination, or dread of organisations. There's the Starliner Towers (Shivers), Keloid Clinic (Rabid), Summerfree Institute (The Brood), ConSec (Scanners), Spectacular Optical (Videodrome), Bartok Industries (The Fly), The Mantle Clinic (Dead Ringers), PildrImage Manufacturers (eXsistenZ).
  • May 26, 2008
    This one is quite disturbing and really well directed as well; yet, as usual with Cronenberg, something went wrong at some point...but I don't know what, lol.
  • December 7, 2009
    Although i don't personally like Cronenberg, this may be his only movie I slightly appreciated
  • December 4, 2009
    Completely bizarre, yet approached in such a calm fashion. This is a horror movie that doesn't feel like a horror movie at all, it's a completely different experience. The style is definitely David Cronenberg, but it's horrific on a completely different level. It isn't just some ...( read more)ridiculous plot about killer kids, it's more about a psychotic divorce between a loving father and a complete nut-job wife.
  • November 13, 2009
    great, psicologic, horror movie, the act is great and the kids are creppy as hell!!!
  • October 15, 2009
    A bit dated but fascinating to see where he takes his biological psychoses every time.
  • October 13, 2009
    Not as good as I hoped it would be.Waste of time & $$$

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