- Year
- 1979
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (23/100)
- Also known as
- David Cronenberg's The Brood · La clinique de la terreur
The Brood
Cronenberg turns a divorce into monsters. Rage made flesh, and it is about his own custody battle.
Cronenberg's most personal film, written during his own bitter custody fight. A woman undergoing a radical psychotherapy that externalises trauma as physical change begins producing deformed, murderous children who act out her rage. It is a horror film about divorce, and it is upsetting.
Samantha Eggar and Oliver Reed commit fully, and the final revelation of what the therapy has produced is one of Cronenberg's most grotesque images. Bleak, angry and unmistakably felt.
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