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The Brood 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Studio: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT Catalog: DVD Release date: 2003-08-26 Media: DVD released in theatres: 1979-05-25 Running time in minutes: 92 DVD aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC DVD Region code: 1 released in theatres: 1979-05-25 Ean: 9780792857389 Book Isbn: 0792857380 Upc: 027616888501  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsDirector:
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 Written on February 4, 2006 Summary: Still pretty scary I just saw this movie and I was very impressed. It was an interesting take on a scary movie. A more psychological and cerebral approach to insanity. No CGI just a good unusual story. It still packs a punch even after all these years. Written on January 4, 2006 Summary: Classic Cronenberg When I sat down to watch The Brood, I wasn't expecting much. I thought that because it was one of Cronenberg's earlier films it would be less accomplished than his later work. Happily, I was in for a suprise. From the opening scenes to the closing credits, the film held me riveted. David Cronenberg's imagination runs rampant throughout, and the dialogue and acting are both first-rate. The inevitable gore is used with great effect and a degree of restraint. This is a truly suspenseful movie that achieves genuine spine-tingling moments. The only reason I rated The Brood 4 instead of 5 stars is because there are some plot holes that become more apparent as the end approaches. I also felt that some behaviors of certain characters were not adequately justified. However, I didn't consider these things until after the movie was over, which speaks to Cronenberg's ability to achieve a suspension of disbelief. This is not just a great horror movie, but a great movie period. It deserves greater recognition than what it has received. For me, The Brood now rivals Videodrome as my favorite Croneberg film.  Written on November 30, 2005 Summary: Just plain boring, and totally overhyped. CONTAINS SPOILERS!! In 1973, director Nicholas Roeg took a Daphne Du Maurier story about a strained family situation, added a child in a red coat and some superlative direction, cast wonderful, talented actors such as Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, and produced a seminal and classic piece of seventies horror, the unmissable "Don't Look Now". Six years later, Cronenberg - obviously, oh so obviously having been influenced by the starkly pared-down imagery and understated elegance of the Roeg picture - decided to put his own markedly different spin on a terribly similar theme, with disasterously boring results. To synopsise the plot: Frank Carveth's estranged wife is crazy, and undergoing unconventional therapy at her psychiatrist's controversial institute. Suspecting her of abusing their daughter, he removes her from his wife's care, to the strenuous objections of her shrink. Several people connected to wifey's emotionally crippling past begin to show up dead, and Carveth finds himself fighting to save his daughter from her crazy mother's 'other' set of kids. So it's David Cronenberg. So what? Performances and direction, as well as screenplay, are all simply mundane. There's barely a shred of the sleek, polished talent we have come to recognise as David Cronenberg, and what we have instead is a sort of mishmash of some of the better aspects from classic American horror movies, as seen through the obviously tired eyes of the writer/director. It's almost got the sense of isolation of 'The Shining', but there are too many incidental characters. It's almost got the same sense of murder-by-numbers as 'Hallowe'en', but lacks the decisive action of that movie. It's close to the stark imagery and sense of motherhood-gone-awry as 'Carrie' (and even the lead actress bears a striking resemblance to Piper Laurie!), but Samantha Eggar's performance is too overblown. Makeup effects, too, are over-ambitious for the time and fail to create any sense of impact or drama, in that they just look silly. Of course, you could say the same for 'The Exorcist', nowadays, but where that film still has the incredible strength of Ellen Burstyn's and Linda Blair's performances, all 'The Brood' has to go on is some deformed alien-figures that hiss a lot. It's not good. In short, where a movie matters most, 'The Brood' fails wholly to deliver, instead regaling us with 90 or so minutes of unfulfilling cinema. A note on the subtext: It's difficult to feel any sort of respect for the social commentary contained herein. Sure, topics like the state of the Nuclear Family and the negative effects of a Mother's love are riveting things, when handled properly. Unfortunately, when the package and presentation are so obviously hollow and overdone, who could care less about subtext? I couldn't. Written on October 25, 2005 Summary: A new kind of therapy. David Cronenberg's the brood is a film about the concept of violence within a family and how it later affects the child's life, it also tells us how fustrating it is when separated parents have to fight for the custody of thier own child as Cronenberg himself was going through a divorce. Frank Carveth starts to question the treatment his wife Nola played by Samantha Eggar is receiving at the clinic of Dr. hal Raglan played by Oliver Reed. Horrible things begin to happen as his daughter returns from a visit to her mother only to have some scars and bruises on her back. While Nola is in intensive care and is locked up at the clinic it seems that all her fustrations and rage manifest into these deformed creatures that act as a revenge from Nola towards her own mother and anyone that stands in her way. The film wasn't as gory as Cronenberg's other films but it deffinently had a creepy and unsettling feeling that I had from watching it, it also had an inteligent storyline and it seemed more like a personal horror film then the sort of weird mixture of science fiction and horror that Cronenberg usualy does so I deffinently think that you should check it out as I thought it was great but not one of my favorites, my favorite of his would be Scanners.  Written on August 21, 2005 Summary: Well, that was weird. David Cronenberg's "The Brood" is a disturbing and at times disgusting movie with a softcore element of creepinees. That said, I did not find "The Brood" to be very scary at all. The acting was good, but the storyline and plot just didn't do it for me. Certainly an imaginative and creative story, "The Brood" centers around a mother's rage and psychological condition being manifested into little devilish like creatures by the help of a rather radical psychiatric treatment by Dr. Raglan, played well by Oliver Reed. It is up to the husband of the pycholgically disturbed woman named Nola to save the day and to save their little girl's life. The actual manifestations of Nola's rage are creepy in a sense and yet laughable as well. Indeed, "The Brood" is pretty over the top and requires the audience to buy into the Nola's and the psychiatrist's joint ability to be able to manifest Nola's rage into a kind of human yet malignant form, but also accept these little creatures which are somewhat creepy but also quite ridiculous, as is the plot I might add. Pure fans of the horror genre will walk away a bit unfulfilled after viewing "The Brood" which simply doesn't have "the bite" of a truly good horror movie and is in all honesty a very weird, outrageous and absolutely ridiculous movie. I know I found myself weary of these absurd little creatures and their supposedly horror movie villain type prowess. Finally, is it just me or is everyone in this movie absolutely crazy? LOL. Anyway, that said, fans of wild, unique and downright crazy horror movies may find this one interesting. "The Brood" probably doesn't quite deserve two stars, but it is original and an eyebrow raiser if nothing else...that much is for sure. |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 2003-08-26 | 2001-08-28 | 1998-09-08 | 1999-10-19 | 2005-06-07 | 2003-08-26 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| released in theatres | 1979-05-25 | 1981-01-14 | 1983-02-04 | 1999-04-23 | 1988-09-23 | 1976-10-18 |
| Running time in minutes | 92 | 103 | 87 | 97 | 116 | 114 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 | 1.85:1 |
| Audience Rating | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Picture format | - | - | Anamorphic Widescreen | Anamorphic Widescreen | - | - |
| Format | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| DVD Region code | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| DVD layers | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| DVD sides | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Ean | 9780792857389 | 9780792850687 | 9780783228457 | 9780788817991 | 9780790762159 | 9780792857396 |
| Book Isbn | 0792857380 | 0792850688 | 0783228457 | 078881799X | 0790762153 | 0792857399 |
| Upc | 027616888501 | 027616865496 | 025192038723 | 717951005120 | 085392143320 | 027616888518 |
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