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The Brood

Cast

Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman View All

Crew

David Cronenberg (Director), David Cronenberg (Writer) View All

Release: May 25th, 1979

Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes

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 husband's investigation.

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0 The Brood 1979

The Brood 1979 Starring Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar I watched this on the catch up service of the channel here in the UK called Horror I vaguely remember watching it back in the eighties,...

0 The Brood (1979) Video Review & Discussion

A discussion & review of the therapeutically terrifying Cronenberg horror classic The Brood (1979) hosted by Mike Ebright & Jake Sedell! Watch it now on the Vektdrome Video YouTube channel!...

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Camo
It starts with an actual play that the characters are watching; when it goes into the first proper character interaction between Hal and Frank i was baffled, i swear i was excpecting it to be revealed as an extension of the play; the whole thing felt completely unnatural, Art Hindle had this weird e....

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Iroquois
It's definitely easy to question whether or not Cronenberg's decision to bring his real-life issues into the texture of the film might have problematic implications and end up turning the film into "My Ex-Wife Is Crazy: The Movie" (especially as it reaches its grotesquely troubling conclusion), but ....