The Brood
1979
After the painful breakup of her marriage, Nola Carveth seeks treatment at an experimental psychiatric clinic known as the Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmatics. While there, under the care of Dr. Raglan, the institute's founder, she is encouraged to work through her subconscious feelings of hurt and rage in a rather novel way:.. Read more
| Starring | Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman |
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| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Genres | Horror |
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The Brood
After the painful breakup of her marriage, Nola Carveth seeks treatment at an experimental psychiatric clinic known as the Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmatics. While there, under the care of Dr. Raglan, the institute's founder, she is encouraged to work through her subconscious feelings of hurt and rage in a rather novel way: through bodily manifestation. Some of the clinic's patients develop grotesque sores, others cancerous growths or tumors. But Nola goes a step further. She gives "birth" to living incarnations of her darkest inner impulses. Once released, these walking ids exact gruesome revenge against Nola's family, especially her ex-husband, for every real and imagined slight that she has suffered at their hands over the course of her troubled life. THE BROOD is one of director David Cronenberg's darkest and most twisted films.
| Starring | Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald |
|---|---|
| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Studio | ANCHOR BAY HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 28 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 18 Jul 2005 Production year: 1979 |
| Format | DVD |
The Brood (2 discs) (1979)
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Oliver Reed, a doctor experimenting with the new science of psychoplasmics, persuades Samantha Eggar to “shape her rage” and give birth to deformed children with killer instincts in another of director David Cronenberg's disturbing shockers. An intriguing metaphor for both unexplained bodily changes and the mental abuse some parents heap on their offspring, this genuinely creepy and upsetting stomach churner is a modern horror classic. In one of her best performances, Eggar gives a poignant emotional depth to Cronenberg's complex chiller.
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Be careful which version you rent!
The disc containing the US version of The Brood is cut, has stereo sound and contains no extras so if you want to rent this film (which I heartily recommend), then rent the UK version which is uncut, has DTS and DD5.1 soundtracks and an interesting documentary about the films of David Cronenberg. There is no mileage in watching both versions as as only the uncut version (with superior sound) is what Cronenberg intended you to see.
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The Brood
This film is pretty good, ignore the comments about the shell suits in other reviews. Although its not going to freak you out or make you sleep with the lights on it does make you think about how we deal with anger and what happens if its surpressed.
Acting is ok, nothing special but the little girl plays the part very well. -
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