The Brood
by David Cronenberg
List Price:
Our Price: $10.99
You Save: $3.99 (27%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $2.70 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald, Oliver Reed, Samantha EggarDirector: David Cronenberg
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Mark Irwin
Writer: David Cronenberg
Editor: Alan Collins
Producer: Claude H?roux
Producer: Pierre David
Producer: Victor Solnicki
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Brood
Movie Review: 1 star out of 4
Summary: 1 Stars
The Bottom Line:
A ridiculous (and ridiculously-bad) horror film rife with plot holes, poor characterization, and ludicrous scenes, The Brood represents Cronenberg at his absolute worst; really pretty terrible, this is a film recommended to no one except people who want insight inside the Canadian horror master's twisted psyche.
Summary of The Brood
From famed writer-director David Cronenberg (The Dead Zone, The Fly, Scanners)comes a chillingly twisted masterpiece of psychological horror. Oliver Reed (Gladiator) and Samantha Eggar (The Astronaut's Wife) star in this shocking, intense thriller about how misdirected rage can literally take on a life of its own. Behind the walls of his secluded Somafree Institute, Dr. Hal Raglan (Reed) experiments with "Psychoplasmics," a controversial therapy designed to help release pent-up emotions in his patients. He keeps his star patient Nola (Eggar) in isolation, but as she vents her fury during their sessions, brutal murders befall the people she's angry with outside the institute. What is the connection between Raglan's methods and these monstrous killings? The answer will unleash a whole new breed of terror!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
Art House & International DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in Horror that doesn't suck
Jeepers CreepersRelease date: 2002-01-08; DVD
Best price: $6.20
Price in other shops:
Dead BirdsSony; Release date: 2005-03-15; DVD
Best price: $4.49
Price in other shops:
Love ObjectLions Gate; Release date: 2004-07-13; DVD
Best price: $7.38
Price in other shops:
Dead RingersWarner Brothers; Release date: 2005-06-07; DVD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
MagicMPI; Release date: 2006-04-25; DVD
Best price: $10.13
Price in other shops:
The Vanishing - Criterion CollectionImage Entertainment; Release date: 2001-09-18; DVD
Best price: $20.29
Price in other shops:
![Santa Sangre [VHS] Image](/images/Santa-Sangre-VHS-6301955609-X.jpg){kind=small}
Santa Sangre [VHS]Expanded Entertainment; Release date: 1998-01-01; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $48.95
PoltergeistRelease date: 1997-04-08; DVD
Best price: $2.84
Price in other shops:
The BeyondRelease date: 2008-10-28; DVD
Best price: $13.29
Price in other shops:
Them!Warner Brothers; Release date: 2002-08-06; DVD
Best price: $7.90
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
CrashRelease date: 1998-11-17; DVD
Best price: $10.25
Price in other shops:
From Beyond (Unrated Director's Cut)TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2007-09-11; DVD
Best price: $10.98
Price in other shops:
The ChangelingWarner Brothers; Release date: 2000-09-12; DVD
Best price: $2.37
Price in other shops:
Burnt OfferingsTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2003-08-26; DVD
Best price: $3.71
Price in other shops:
The Fly (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)Twentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2005-10-04; DVD
Best price: $12.04
Price in other shops:
The Dead Zone (Special Collector's Edition)Paramount; Release date: 2006-09-26; DVD
Best price: $6.22
Price in other shops:
eXistenZRelease date: 1999-10-19; DVD
Best price: $4.45
Price in other shops:
Dead RingersWarner Brothers; Release date: 2005-06-07; DVD
Best price: $11.46
Price in other shops:
VideodromeUniversal; Release date: 1998-09-08; DVD
Best price: $4.53
Price in other shops:
ScannersTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2001-08-28; DVD
Best price: $3.79
Price in other shops: