Reviewed by Jason Di Rosso, Gillian Leahy
David Cronenberg's The Brood was his fifth feature film, though he'd also directed a heap of television by the time he made this in 1979.
Art Hindle is a man trying to rescue his estranged wife (Samantha Eggar) from a psychiatric clinic where she's undergoing therapy to treat 'repressed anger' well, it was the seventies!
Oliver Reed plays the psychotherapist, and a side-effect of his unorthodox treatment is that it makes Eggar give birth to bloodthirsty humanoids.
It's the choice of film theorist and filmmaker Gillian Leahy. It's available on DVD from Universal.
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