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DVD The Brood
Arguably the best and most personal of director David Cronenberg's early films, The Brood is an extremely unsettling horror film about familial disintegration and emotional trauma taken to a monstrous extreme. Art Hindle (Black Christmas) stars as a man embroiled in a bitter custody struggle with his estranged wife (Samantha Eggar), who is undergoing therapy at psychiatrist Oliver Reed's controversial institute. Reed's treatment causes his patients to give form to their inner conflicts, and Eggar--whose psyche is at the boiling point from childhood abuse as well as the custody trial--creates a horde of homicidal humanoid children who enact bloody revenge on anyone who has threatened their "mother." Cronenberg's first feature with name actors and composer Howard Shore has its share of gruesome moments, but the film's subtext--how emotional violence impacts a family--is its most chilling aspect. --Paul Gaita
David Cronenberg's the brood is a film about the concept of violence within a family and how it later affects the child's life, it also tells us how fustrating it is when separated parents have to fight for the custody of thier own child as Cronenberg himself was going through a divorce. Frank Carveth starts to question the treatment his wife Nola played by Samantha Eggar is receiving at the clinic of Dr. hal Raglan played by Oliver Reed. Horrible things begin to happen as his daughter returns from a visit to her mother only to have some scars and bruises on her back. While Nola is in intensive care and is locked up at the clinic it seems that all her fustrations and rage manifest into these deformed creatures that act as a revenge from Nola towards her own mother and anyone that stands in her way. The film wasn't as gory as Cronenberg's other films but it deffinently had a creepy and unsettling feeling that I had from watching it, it also had an inteligent storyline and it seemed more like a personal horror film then the sort of weird mixture of science fiction and horror that Cronenberg usualy does so I deffinently think that you should check it out as I thought it was great but not one of my favorites, my favorite of his would be Scanners.
Well, that was weird.
David Cronenberg's "The Brood" is a disturbing and at times disgusting movie with a softcore element of creepinees. That said, I did not find "The Brood" to be very scary at all. The acting was good, but the storyline and plot just didn't do it for me. Certainly an imaginative and creative story, "The Brood" centers around a mother's rage and psychological condition being manifested into little devilish like creatures by the help of a rather radical psychiatric treatment by Dr. Raglan, played well by Oliver Reed. It is up to the husband of the pycholgically disturbed woman named Nola to save the day and to save their little girl's life.
The actual manifestations of Nola's rage are creepy in a sense and yet laughable as well. Indeed, "The Brood" is pretty over the top and requires the audience to buy into the Nola's and the psychiatrist's joint ability to be able to manifest Nola's rage into a kind of human yet malignant form, but also accept these little creatures which are somewhat creepy but also quite ridiculous, as is the plot I might add.
Pure fans of the horror genre will walk away a bit unfulfilled after viewing "The Brood" which simply doesn't have "the bite" of a truly good horror movie and is in all honesty a very weird, outrageous and absolutely ridiculous movie. I know I found myself weary of these absurd little creatures and their supposedly horror movie villain type prowess. Finally, is it just me or is everyone in this movie absolutely crazy? LOL.
Anyway, that said, fans of wild, unique and downright crazy horror movies may find this one interesting. "The Brood" probably doesn't quite deserve two stars, but it is original and an eyebrow raiser if nothing else...that much is for sure.
Excellent film that rises above its slasher status
The Brood is the lightning in the bottle that director David Cronenberg has never been able to duplicate. While all of his films definitely have his fingerprints all over them, The Brood managed to rise to the top of all of his films. It is absolutely dripping in a sense of dispair and dread. There is a pervading coldness about it - such that you want to wrap up in something warm as you watch it - you want to watch it with the lights on because you're very much afraid of what might be there if you turn off the lights.
The film is a psychological thriller wrapped in a slasher flick. It warrants slasher status simply because of the sheer number of onscreen murders that take place. This is a very bloody film!
Samantha Eggar is nuts and in a weird clinic for people like her. She is being treated by a creepy Oliver Reed (in one of his better performances). Art Hindle is her ex husband and he's worried about how she is treating their young daughter. After a while that is the least of his worries, as these horribly disfigured and (what the Hell are they?) bizarre little children run around killing all the people that have really ticked off Samantha Eggar.
I won't say more, because part of the horror in a Cronenberg film is the pseudo-science that he get you to believe in.
Whereas Cronenberg's Videodrome was weird, but not terribly good, The Brood is one of the creepiest films I've ever seen and a guilty pleasure (can I really call it that?) that I choose to subject myself to every so often.
David Cronenberg's 1981 horror film is a darkly paranoid story of a homeless man (Stephen Lack) mistakenly believed to be insane, when in fact he can't turn off the sound of other people's thoughts in his telepathic mind. Helped by a doctor (Patrick McGoohan) and enlisted in a program of "scanners"--telepaths who also can will heads to explode--he becomes involved in a battle against nefarious forces. A number of critics consider this to be Cronenberg's first great film, and indeed it has a serious vision of destiny that rivals some of the important German expressionist works from the silent cinema. Lack is very good as the odd hero, and McGoohan is effectively eccentric and chilly as the scientist who saves him from the street, only to thrust him into a terrible struggle. --Tom... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jennifer O'Neill - Stephen Lack - Patrick McGoohan Director(s): David Cronenberg DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I looked for it for a while, and finally found it, and bought it, and watched it, then put it on my shelf and never viewed it again and that was like 1 year ago or so. Its a decent movie there could have been more excitemnt more rabid people and more blood thye movie is actually quit boring not scary just regular. Its the type of movie you watch and wait and nothing really great happens at all. Rent it first. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Marilyn Chambers - Frank Moore Director(s): David Cronenberg DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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"If this picture doesn't make you scream and squirm, you should see a psychiatrist--quick!" shouts the film's trailer. This time the hyperbole is right. David Cronenberg's debut feature, and Canada's first domestic horror film, is an ingeniously engineered slasher of thoroughly modern horror that, like George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos. A genetically engineered designer parasite--part aphrodisiac, part venereal disease--created by a modern-day mad scientist escapes into a colorless, self-contained apartment complex and goes searching for hosts. This monstrous parasite multiplies and invades the alienated occupants, turning them into a pack of id-driven sex maniacs. Cronenberg's suffocating vision of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Paul Hampton - Joe Silver Director(s): David Cronenberg DVD Release Date: Released the 14 August 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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The Dead Zone is based on a novel by Stephen King, directed by David Cronenberg (Scanners, The Fly) and produced by Debra Hill (Halloween, The Fog). Such a trio of horror vets would be expected to come up with an evening of shocks and gore, but The Dead Zone is a surprise. While it has great atmospheric eeriness and undeniably scary moments, The Dead Zone is at heart a sensitive and thoughtful portrayal of main character Johnny Smith's dilemma. Christopher Walken, king of the vaguely creepy, plays Smith, a man who awakens from a five-year coma with the very mixed blessing of second sight. At the mere touch of a hand, Smith is unwillingly launched into scenes of past and future terror. (Director Cronenberg is said to have fired blanks from... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Christopher Walken - Brooke Adams Director(s): David Cronenberg DVD Release Date: Released the 19 September 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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You may never have heard of this neglected 1974 gem, but you've probably seen one of its many imitators. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder (also look for Andrea Martin of SCTV fame) star as two residents of a sorority house that is emptying out as Christmas approaches. The atmosphere is jolly and carefree, except for an ongoing series of menacing telephone calls, and, oh yes, we've just seen someone climb into the attic with apparent ill intent. Kidder does some scene-stealing as the bad girl, Hussey illustrates one of the downsides to having beautiful long '70s hair, and Keir Dullea does a nice turn as the creepy boyfriend. Director Robert Clark knows that the unseen is far scarier than what can be seen and he ratchets up the tension beautifully, making good use of ominous shadows,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Olivia Hussey - Keir Dullea Director(s): Bob Clark (III) DVD Release Date: Released the 06 November 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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