The Brood
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Movie Reviews of The Brood
Movie Review: A new kind of therapy.
Summary: 4 Stars
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.Movie Review: Classic Cronenberg
Summary: 4 Stars
When I sat down to watch The Brood, I wasn't expecting much. I thought that because it was one of Cronenberg's earlier films it would be less accomplished than his later work. Happily, I was in for a suprise. From the opening scenes to the closing credits, the film held me riveted. David Cronenberg's imagination runs rampant throughout, and the dialogue and acting are both first-rate. The inevitable gore is used with great effect and a degree of restraint. This is a truly suspenseful movie that achieves genuine spine-tingling moments.
The only reason I rated The Brood 4 instead of 5 stars is because there are some plot holes that become more apparent as the end approaches. I also felt that some behaviors of certain characters were not adequately justified. However, I didn't consider these things until after the movie was over, which speaks to Cronenberg's ability to achieve a suspension of disbelief.
This is not just a great horror movie, but a great movie period. It deserves greater recognition than what it has received. For me, The Brood now rivals Videodrome as my favorite Croneberg film.
Movie Review: Brooding psychological horror
Summary: 4 Stars
David Cronenberg's 1979 film was an effective and highly disturbing horror piece, perhaps the first fully realized work of his career. Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar brought class to what could have turned into an over-the-top genre workout. The notion that whenever a character walked into a darkened room, a killer dwarf could come leaping out of the shadows armed with a paperweight or whatever was at hand proved reliably unsettling. One of the most chilling scenes actually takes place in a fully lit elementary teacher's classroom, proving there is no safe haven. But beyond the obvious scares is the creepiness of the psychiatrist character played by Reed, whose aggressive therapeutic techniques push Eggar to physically manifest her anger in a manner that drives the plot and sets up an effectively shocking visual for the climax. The psychological subtext keeps the viewer engaged as much as the suspense of the situations and the menacing music by Howard Shore.Movie Review: The history of violence...
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an early David Cronenberg film in which we get a taste of what will come later. It is about all those 1970's self-help "I'm OK, You're OK," therapies. Oliver Reed stars as a psychiatrist who has developed "pyschoplasmics" - a therapy that gives its patients physical manifestations of their inner traumas. His patients develop cancer and skin diseases.
Samatha Eggar stars as his prime patient: someone who gives birth to "children of her rage" - little monster humanoids who vaguely resemble her daughter. When Eggar is mad at someone - her mother for beating her, for example - the demonic children go to exact revenge.
Like all of Cronenberg's films, it is gory and disturbing. Stephen King praises it in his Danse Macabre. It is a must-see for any true horror fan.
Movie Review: HATCHLINGS .......
Summary: 4 Stars
For some or other reason this one has a slight echo of "Don't Look Now" - it's the cosy little kid's winterwear that can be so disturbing, and those little slickers ......Talk about Psycho-Therapy? Cronenberg goes well beyond all of this in this sad tale of child-abuse and the rather odd results that can manifest as time goes by.
The gorgeous Samantha Eggar is the den mother - brooding in Dr. Oliver Reed's ultra-chick sanitarium with more than one odd little bat in the belfry.
The mood is sombre, the tone is dark and for God's sake - always look under the bed before turning the lights out ......
Nasty little patterings afoot here . bound to stay with you for a long time!
[ps. Kafka would love this landsacpe of the 'pitted' psyche].