Directed by:
David CronenbergScreenplay:
David CronenbergCinematography:
Mark IrwinComposer:
Howard ShoreCast:
Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Susan Hogan, Reiner Schwartz, John Ferguson, Nicholas Campbell, Felix Silla, Robert A. Silverman (more)VOD (4)
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Under the care of Psychologist Dr. Raglan, Nola Carveth is encouraged to outwardly manifest her anger over her painful divorce from her husband Frank. These manifestations take the form of dwarflike mutants who are born for the sole purpose of acting out Nola's violent fantasies of revenge. (official distributor synopsis)
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I was expecting monster horror and I got something completely different, but I haven't seen a horror movie with mutated goblins yet, so why not. David Cronenberg once again does a great job with the atmosphere especially in the final third, but this time he didn't satisfy me enough in the first half to make me cheer with excitement like I did in the second half, so I can't in good conscience give it 4*. Definitely Croneneberg's best horror film after The Fly and Shivers.
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This time Cronenberg fully subordinated his classical trademarks (gynecology, psychiatry, body deformation) to the effect of self-efficacy. As a means of doing so, he chose little men in winter overalls with hammers in their hands and lots of long-winded chatter. The suspense is solid only up to the first two visits of the hissing kids, then after the finale (typical gradation) there is once again plenty of verbal filler, which is not even helped out by an incorrect scene of a school class standing around a teacher lying in a pool of blood. But I’ll give it 3 ½ stars for the drops of icy sweat on my back.
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After second screening, The Brood is one of the more sluggish and lesser satisfactory works of David Cronenberg. Once you know where it's all headed, it doesn’t have the same impact (compared to that, for example, Scanners impressed me strongly on the second viewing). Nevertheless, with its ideas, naturalistic imagery, and chilly Canadian atmosphere, it is still an admirable work, the ending of which will surely be remembered by everyone.
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The scene where a woman gives birth to another child is so grotesque that it will stick in your memory permanently. The same applies when the young creatures attack little Candice. I wouldn't want to be in that young actress's shoes. The film might turn some peoples’ stomachs, but its power lies not in visual disgust but in the abhorrence of the human psyche and what people are willing to do to achieve their goals, no matter what they may be.
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Cronenberg puts all the horror on the shoulders on the “killers dwarfs” wearing children overalls and wielding hammers, unfortunately, it’s mostly gratuitous and not very scary. You can't deny the chilling, bleak atmosphere, but if you can't take the core of all evil seriously, it can hardly frighten you or arouse any unpleasant emotions.
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