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From famed writer-director David Cronenberg (The Dead Zone The Fly) 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!System Requirements:Starring: Oliver Reed Samantha Eggar Directed By: David Cronenberg Running Time: 92 Min. Color Copyright 2003 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 027616888501 Manufacturer No: 100483

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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

Rating : - After Watching "The Brood," You'll Think Twice About Going To A Psychiatrist For Anger Management
"The Brood" is a cold, creepy psychological horror film. This David Cronenberg masterpiece was shot against a dreary, snow blanketed Canadian background. Oliver Reed (star of Dan Curtis`s "Burnt Offerings" and a host of Hammer films including "Paranoiac"), Samantha Eggar ("Curtains" and "The Collector"), and Art Hindle (the original "Black Christmas") comprise a stellar 70s cast that provide great performances. There are several graphic, gory murder scenes. One in particular is the controversial clubbing death of a teacher in front of her traumatized kindergarten students.

Oliver is a celebrated, but insane, psychiatrist; his beautiful patient, Eggar, is the subject of his latest experiment. It seems that Oliver has been able to assist Eggar in expelling her pent up rage by allowing it to take on a physical manifestation. A manifestation that proves deadly when everyone around Eggar falls victim to horrible beating deaths. Hindle is Eggar's concerned husband who is not allowed to visit while she is undergoing her "therapy." Hindle begins to investigate his wife's "therapy" when he suspects her of physically abusing their child, Candace.

"The Brood" is a horror classic and required viewing for all David Cronenberg fans. He also directed two of my other science fiction horror favorites, "Rabid" and "Scanners."