"What's been happening with me is strange...far too strange to share with anyone."
THE BROOD (1979)
Directed by David Cronenberg
A truly disturbing tale of manifest rage, "The Brood" is David Cronenberg's first masterpiece. In several interviews over the years he has ironically referred to this film as his version of "Kramer vs Kramer" and indeed it is a remarkably "Cronenbergian" take on a bitter divorce story.
Samantha Eggar plays a mentally disturbed woman undergoing a revolutionary new pychotherapy intended to physically purge the patient of negative emotion. Her estranged husband, in an effort to protect their daughter, tries to uncover the secrets of her treatment, but a series of brutal murders derails his investigation. The perpetrators of these attacks are revealed to be strange deformed children.
I've already told you too much.
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