The Brood
The story is about a psychologist who is going through a controversial task with a new patient. The story begins where psychologist Hal Raghlan runs the Somaveri Institute where he performs his own performance with patients daily. One day, one of his patients, Nola Karfith, a troubled woman who is legally persecuted with her husband for custody of their daughter, comes as a surprise to Raglan. Now, Rajlan must help his patient in his battle as well as solve his own problems too.
24 March 1952, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
11 October 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
21 July 1948, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
6 January 1920, Lancashire, England, UK
5 March 1939, Hampstead, London, England, UK
1948
May 03, 2005
May be the most damning movie ever made about psychiatry.October 22, 2002
One of Cronenberg's most compelling and unsettling works.October 29, 2015
the horrors are simultaneously literal and allegorical, springing from a deep emotional well that transcends the bounds of conventional dramaJuly 29, 2005
it's Cronenberg's Kramer Vs. Kramer - although Benton's film never featured dwarfish homicidal psychopaths amongst its methods for bridging irreconcilable differences.October 23, 2004
The Brood is an el sleazo exploitation film, camouflaged by the presence of several well-known stars but guaranteed to nauseate you all the same.July 15, 2005
Another terrifying gem from Cronenberg's early yearsOctober 20, 2013
Shedding the grindhouse skin of the early films for a cool-clinical sheen, Cronenberg exhumes the deformed feelings of relationships erected on circles of pain while locating a bruised new dignity in the characters caught in themOctober 25, 2004
One of the great filmmaker's best films, and a stylistic -- if not budgetary -- breakthrough.May 04, 2015
A cinematic bad dream that generates recurring nightmares.July 26, 2002
One of Cronenberg's earliest and ickiest explorations of our fragile flesh.