The Brood
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Movie Reviews of The Brood
Movie Review: SHOCKING
Summary: 3 Stars
The story has its psychological pull; what would happen if you could channel rage in some physical way (in this case, "create" children, or extensions of yourself, to handle it all for you)? Cronenberg, never subtle, builds to one of the most sickening moments ever put on film. I saw this on TV about 15 years ago, and have never been able to erase the memory of that scene from my mind - and I love horror films. Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar both bring a gravity and seriousness to the movie that makes it even more terrifying. There is a pulpy, classic quality to this movie, and it's nice to see it on DVD.Movie Review: Not the best, but
Summary: 3 Stars
Maybe it was that it was an old horror film but I didn't care for this movie that much. I searched this movie out and other movies out because they were David Cronenberg films. I really do like his work and the way they are written, but not this one. I thought that the acting was very corney and the atmosphere of the movie was not that good either. All through this movie I was wondering where the story was. The only reason that I gave this movie a 3 star rating was that it was a David Cronenberg film and it had a twist in the end.Movie Review: Not the Fly but good
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a Cronenberg fan. I love his early work. I do believe that this film is a step up from Rabid, but not as good as the follow up Scanners. Cronenberg made some challenging and intriguing films. I believe hsi remake of the Fly(1986) was the best horro film of the 80's, close behind Carpenters the Thing. This film is a little slow at times and the story is ridiculous, however, the locations and characters are interesting and scary.Movie Review: Well, that was weird.
Summary: 2 Stars
David Cronenberg's "The Brood" is a disturbing and at times disgusting movie with a softcore element of creepinees. That said, I did not find "The Brood" to be very scary at all. The acting was good, but the storyline and plot just didn't do it for me. Certainly an imaginative and creative story, "The Brood" centers around a mother's rage and psychological condition being manifested into little devilish like creatures by the help of a rather radical psychiatric treatment by Dr. Raglan, played well by Oliver Reed. It is up to the husband of the pycholgically disturbed woman named Nola to save the day and to save their little girl's life.
The actual manifestations of Nola's rage are creepy in a sense and yet laughable as well. Indeed, "The Brood" is pretty over the top and requires the audience to buy into the Nola's and the psychiatrist's joint ability to be able to manifest Nola's rage into a kind of human yet malignant form, but also accept these little creatures which are somewhat creepy but also quite ridiculous, as is the plot I might add.
Pure fans of the horror genre will walk away a bit unfulfilled after viewing "The Brood" which simply doesn't have "the bite" of a truly good horror movie and is in all honesty a very weird, outrageous and absolutely ridiculous movie. I know I found myself weary of these absurd little creatures and their supposedly horror movie villain type prowess. Finally, is it just me or is everyone in this movie absolutely crazy? LOL.
Anyway, that said, fans of wild, unique and downright crazy horror movies may find this one interesting. "The Brood" probably doesn't quite deserve two stars, but it is original and an eyebrow raiser if nothing else...that much is for sure.
Movie Review: Mr. Cronenberg's rough divorce
Summary: 2 Stars
I liked Shivers well enough, I thought the Fly was pretty creepy, and I paid 7$ to see Eastern Promises. Ergo I am by no means anti-Cronenberg. However, the Brood is an utterly and unequivacably poor film. If anyone could please answer the following questions plausibly, be my guest--the comment link is at the bottom for a reason. Of course,if you like the film you'll probably just give me a negative feedback vote, but whatever.
Here are my questions (many spoilers) :
-How do the police not notice the obvious bloody handprints on the bannister that one of brood leaves? If they had, they might actually have thought to look for someone small.
-Because the brood are basically 2nd graders and not terribly intimidating, isn't it convenient that all their victims aside from Raglan (who is surrounded) are caught unawares so as to be plausibly dispatched?
-Nola is Raglan's prize pupil and he's dedicated to studying her, to the point of dismissing all other patients. So why does he help Frank in the end?
-If the brood attack who Nola is angry at, why do they attack Raglan in the end?
-If the brood act off Nola's rage, why send Frank in to calm her (which could easily backfire)? Why not just run up, get his daughter, and run away? Or drug Nola?
It's a flawed film and not even a terribly interesting one. What can happen when an inventive yet odd filmmaker is going through a tough divorce.