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The Brood

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The Brood (1979)

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Reviews Counted: 15

Fresh: 12

Rotten:3

Average Rating: 7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: Art Hindle, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Cindy Hinds

Starring: Art Hindle, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Cindy Hinds, Robert A. Silverman

Director: David Cronenberg

Director: David Cronenberg
Screenwriter: David Cronenberg
Producer: Claude Heroux
Composer: Howard Shore

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Release:

Aug 26, 2003

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Mono - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer

Reviews for The Brood

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11/02/07
Cole Smithey
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10/30/07
Leo Goldsmith
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06/24/06
Time Out
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it's Cronenberg's Kramer Vs. Kramer - although Benton's film never featured dwarfish homicidal psychopaths amongst its methods for bridging irreconcilable differences.

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07/29/05
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette
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Another terrifying gem from Cronenberg's early years

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07/15/05
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World
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May be the most damning movie ever made about psychiatry.

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05/03/05
Nick Schager
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12/18/04
Emanuel Levy
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One of the great filmmaker's best films, and a stylistic -- if not budgetary -- breakthrough.

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10/25/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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The Brood is an el sleazo exploitation film, camouflaged by the presence of several well-known stars but guaranteed to nauseate you all the same.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A definitive metaphor for the coldness and cruelty of acrimonious divorce.

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03/09/03
Walter Chaw
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11/12/02
Nicolas Lacroix
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Cronenberg's best early film.

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10/22/02
Ken Hanke
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08/08/02
John J. Puccio
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One of Cronenberg's earliest and ickiest explorations of our fragile flesh.

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
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04/26/01
Bruce Kirkland
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Canadian splatter-movie auteur David Cronenberg was a lot more interesting when he made movies for drive-ins instead of arthouses, and this visionary horror film ranks among his most disturbing, provocative work.

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04/26/01
Jim Ridley
Nashville Scene
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With The Brood David Cronenberg has created a rich, multi-layered genre film—one that explores some very heavy and serious issues dealing with the disintegration of both our bodies and our families.

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04/26/01
Mike Bracken
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A stunningly original film, but one that is hardly plausible.

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01/01/00
Dennis Schwartz
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