The Brood. 1979.
Frank Carveth tries to uncover a doctor's unconventional treatment on his institutionalised wife after his daughter comes back from a visit bruised and thinks there is a connection with a series of brutal murders that have been happening to the clinic.
This has always been one crazy weird film from David Cronenberg that I still find entertaining, Oliver Reed plays Dr Hal Raglan who is able to put his patients into a near hypnosis state that produces welts and sores on their body from their inner rage. Samantha Egger plays Nula Carveth who is the star patient and able to produce more than just welts on her body and create deformed dwarfs that she can control to do her bidding. Art Hindle plays Plays Frank who tries to uncover what Dr. Raglan is trying to do with his patients but at the same time trying to keep his daughter safe.
The writing by Cronenberg can only come from his own mind and inner rage manifesting itself in a strange way through warts and boils. Howard Shore's background score is brilliantly done and able to create a sense of dread at the right moment. The acting is brilliant from start to finish, Oliver seems very much calm through the film and explaining the brood and knows what can happen that leads to a good tense moment in the shed's attic.
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