The Brood (1979)

When a series of brutally horrific murders takes place – including Nola’s parents – Frank begins to suspect that his wife and Dr Raglan are implicated. A band of homicidal cloned midgets – The Brood – are terrorising the neighborhood, seemingly provoked by Nola’s rages. Naturally nobody believes Frank and it’s left to him to stop the typically Cronenberg night-marish bloodbath of mayhem and destruction.

After the painful breakup of her marriage, Nola Carveth seeks treatment at an experimental psychiatric clinic known as the Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmatics. While there, under the care of Dr. Raglan, the institute's founder, she is encouraged to work through her subconscious feelings of hurt and rage in a rather novel way: through bodily manifestation. Some of the clinic's patients develop grotesque sores, others cancerous growths or tumors. But Nola goes a step further. She gives "birth" to living incarnations of her darkest inner impulses. Once released, these walking ids exact gruesome revenge against Nola's family, especially her ex-husband,

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Eccentric low-budgeter is at times overly talky, but still much more intelligent than most of the genre and acceptable fare. 

What's nice about "The Brood" is that it is very well done, but still harks from the era when Cronenberg was delivering straight-ahead horror.

-- (eSplatter.com)

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I thought this movie was pretty decent. It's interesting, but really slows down at times. ... Worth a check if you're a Cronenberg fan, but avoid otherwise. 5/10

--FrighT MasteR (UHM)

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