The Brood

Director: David Cronenberg

1979 / 92min / DCP

In The Brood, the bitter divorce between the mentally disturbed Nola (Samantha Eggar) and her ex-husband Frank (Art Hindle) was pretty messy, so it should be a good sign that she’s finally getting professional help from the renowned Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed)—but Frank can’t help but notice that people on Nola’s long list of enemies keep dying at the hands of asexual, dwarfish assassins, and so he starts to wonder what exactly the experimental therapy practiced at Dr. Raglan’s Somafree Institute consists of… Written while Cronenberg was in the midst of his own divorce and custody battle, The Brood is a brutal, bracing airing of anxieties gussied up in grindhouse trappings.

Distributor: Janus Films

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