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The Brood

1979

Directed by David Cronenberg

The Ultimate Experience in Inner Terror.

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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Oliver Reed Samantha Eggar Art Hindle Henry Beckman Nuala Fitzgerald Cindy Hinds Susan Hogan Gary McKeehan Michael Magee Robert A. Silverman Joseph Shaw Larry Solway Reiner Schwarz Felix Silla John Ferguson Nicholas Campbell Mary Swinton Jerry Kostur Chris Britton Elijah Siegler

Alternative Titles

Cromosoma 3, Cromosoma tres, Chromosoom 3, David Cronenberg's The Brood, La clinique de la terreur, Brood - vihan jälkeläiset, Missfostret, Engendros del mal, The Brood - Missfostret, Potomstwo, Bывoдок, Hastanede Dehşet, Pomiot, Brood - La covata malefica, Chromosome 3, Die Brut, Выводок, צאצאים, Porontyok, 브루드, 灵婴, The Brood - missfostret, ザ・ブルード／怒りのメタファー, Mláďatá, Os Filhos do Medo, Виводок, Οι Νεοσσοί, Mláďata, A Ninhada, Mladunci

Genres

Science Fiction Horror

Themes

Horror, the undead and monster classics Intense violence and sexual transgression Gory, gruesome, and slasher horror Terrifying, haunted, and supernatural horror Twisted dark psychological thriller Chilling experiments and classic monster horror Creepy, chilling, and terrifying horror Show All…

Premiere

11 Oct 2020

France Grand Lyon Film Festival (Restored Version)

Theatrical

25 May 1979

USAR

01 Jun 1979

Canada18A

10 Oct 1979

France16

17 Oct 1979

Brazil

13 Mar 1980

04 Jun 1980

Italy18+

06 Jun 1987

JapanR15+

03 Nov 2021

France

Physical

07 Jul 2006

Germany16

08 Jul 2013

13 Oct 2015

Brazil

17 Oct 1979

Theatrical

Canada

01 Jun 1979

Theatrical18A

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10 Oct 1979

Theatrical16

11 Oct 2020

Premiere Grand Lyon Film Festival (Restored Version)

03 Nov 2021

Theatrical Re-release (Restored Version)

Germany

07 Jul 2006

Physical16

Italy

04 Jun 1980

Theatrical18+

Japan

06 Jun 1987

TheatricalR15+

UK

13 Mar 1980

Theatrical

08 Jul 2013

Physical Bluray

USA

25 May 1979

TheatricalR

13 Oct 2015

Physical Bluray

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Review by Matthew Christman ★★★

I was trying to watch the Croods. Very disturbing.
Review by Will Menaker ★★★★ 7

Oliver Reed's T-levels are off the charts in this one. Amazing hair, astonishing jaw, incredible winter coats.
Review by amaya ★★★★

rip to sigmund freud you would've loved the brood (1979)
Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 5

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Cronenberg is the king of taking very human psychological contradictions and perversities and rendering them in the vulnerability of flesh, and here he works through his own divorce and familial fallout in just about the grossest, scariest way someone could lol. Accidentally double featured this with Kramer vs. Kramer which was a wild experience because both tackle the subject of a couple who find themselves in a messy break-up/custody battle (despite still being complicated and sad apparently the Benton film was so light and optimistic about the subject to Cronenberg that he was furious and inspired to write this), but the vision here of the same situation is so nasty, so pessimistic to the point where it's nearly apocalyptic in…
Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★★ 1

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

David Cronenberg turning his own ugly feelings about his messy divorce into a disturbing dive into psychological scars of family. Art Hindle’s blank face is the perfect foil to such dissection and the film has some of the most effective horrifying images put on film particularly when they are the most simple (as a 15 year old those little deformed hands coming from under the bed really did a number on me). Even the pure little girl sight is disturbing. And then there is the moment in which the ex-husband arrives in the school to murdered body of the teacher and all those little children crying. When it comes to psychological damage, The Brood has something for everyone.
Review by jourdain searles ★★★★

beautiful film about motherhood
Review by Sean Baker 15

Another film that felt like a first time watch because 1) it's been over 30 years 2) Criterion's restoration is so good that it almost feels like a different film from the VHS I rented when I was in my teens.
I forgot how in line this film is with Cronenberg's fascination/obsession with body horror. I re-visited thinking that I would like it better after all these years but quite honestly, still low in my Cronenberg ranking.
Criterion release is great. So much on the disc including interviews, tv spots and Cronenberg's 2nd feature Crimes of the Future, which I've never seen and will so soon.
Review by sarah squirm ★★★★ 1

canadian mid century modern + gorgeous women with wide-set eyes + little freaks in rainbow snowsuits ??? cronenberg i love you !!!
Review by matt lynch ★★★

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scary hammer-wielding killer kids in snowsuits and Samantha Eggar's external womb are never going to be not fucking terrifying. while the shape of Cronenberg's rage is conceptually powerful, though, his obvious and deeply personal pessimism seems to me misplaced, and the film is somewhat unbalanced by some misogyny seemingly directed at his ex-wife. while Art Hindle never plays an upstanding spouse, exactly, the core idea of his wife's inchoate rage spawning uncontrollable murderous offspring -- a condition that spreads to their actual daughter -- is somewhat simplistically tossed off: bitches be crazy. the fear, suspicion and jealousy here is intrinsic, unexplained, and inevitable but never interrogated; this is like an R.D. Laing family nexus seminar before he was discredited.
Review by Matt Singer ★★★

Liked this more on rewatch. As a movie it's flawed, but as a contraceptive device, it's about as good as they come.
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 9

This is exactly what I was hoping it would be. I was in the mood for some Cronenberg, and I most certainly got some Cronenberg. This movie is absolutely, positively off the wall. I feel like with The Brood, the Cronenberg that we all know and love came into being. Not that there was anything wrong with his previous seventies work, but in my eyes, this was the film that paved the way for the director's subsequent masterpieces: Videodrome, The Fly, etc. You thought that those films had insane endings? Wait until you get a load of this one's finale. Holy goodness gracious on wheels, I did not see the final half hour of this film coming... from the classroom…
Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★½

The family unit is at it again

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