Review by: zer0hal0
Date: 2nd April 2008
Frank Carveth (Art Hindle) becomes very concerned about his daughter Candice (Cindy Hinds)
after he notices bruises and bite marks on her back when she comes home from visiting her
mother Nola, (Samantha Eggar) who is currently under the care of an eccentric psychiatrist
named Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) in a mental institute. Frank confronts Dr. Raglan about the
bruises and bite marks and begins to blame Nola or even maybe another patient for hurting his
daughter, he begins to threaten him with legal action and wants to bar Nola from having anything
to do with Candice. Dr. Raglan advises Frank "To take Candice away from her at this stage could
actually send Nola over into the deep end. It's a critical time for her, and she needs all the
support and loving she can get". Later that following night Frank drops Candice over to her
grandmothers Juliana Kelly (Nuala Fitzgerald) house to baby-sit her, while he has a few drinks with
Candice's teacher Ruth Mayer (Susan Hogan) about some school activities. Juliana begins to have
a few drinks herself, and hears someone in the kitchen smashing plates and slamming the
cupboard doors .Slowly she makes her way into the kitchen to find out what all the ruckus is
about, a deformed child with a wooden mallet on the bench top begins to bash the grandmothers
head into a bloody pulp, before running upstairs and hiding under the bed. Hours later, Frank
finds the house swamped with police and detectives looking for clues and wonders why his
daughter who claimed to be asleep in bed and didn't see anything. Sooner or later Franks begins
to begins to suspect the Dr. Raglan has more than just a doctor/patient relationship with his
former wife, and soon figures out that Dr. Raglan might have a connection with bizarre killings by
supposedly deformed children.
I haven't really been very big on David Cronenberg films, though I did like Shivers and Rabid, but
not so much his cult classic Videodrone, which for some reason everyone loves to death, why I
have no fucking clue. Anyway back to talking about this review, what did I think of The Brood?
Its simple, this film was a waste of an hour and a half of my life. The story was so fucking boring,
and slow building, I ain't shitting you. I can’t recall how many fucking times I wanted to switch off
the DVD or even fast forward the movie, but nar I thought to myself "I better not do that, just in
case I miss something good". The only interesting part in this film was the very end of the movie,
but still it wasn't worth the hour I wasted watching deformed kids that look like something out of
the Aphex Twins: Come to Daddy video clip, murder and club an old women, a school teacher to
death, then kidnap a young girl. And all because (SPOILER ALERT - Because every time Nola goes
into a fit of rage because of a shitty childhood and whoever she is thinking at the time, these
killer deformed children of hers, go out on a killing spree). That's about it end of story, for fuck
sake Dave, couldn't you come up with something a bit better than that bro?
Fuck it, I ain't going to talk about this film no more, cause its pointless. The Brood is a piece of
shit, waste of time, not worth even the $10 from Amazon.com so just save your cash guys and go
and buy a packet of condoms, jizz in the fucking things and whip them at some asshole on the
street. Cause you'll get more kicks out of doing that, than watching this fucking film!
Date: 2nd April 2008
Frank Carveth (Art Hindle) becomes very concerned about his daughter Candice (Cindy Hinds)
after he notices bruises and bite marks on her back when she comes home from visiting her
mother Nola, (Samantha Eggar) who is currently under the care of an eccentric psychiatrist
named Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) in a mental institute. Frank confronts Dr. Raglan about the
bruises and bite marks and begins to blame Nola or even maybe another patient for hurting his
daughter, he begins to threaten him with legal action and wants to bar Nola from having anything
to do with Candice. Dr. Raglan advises Frank "To take Candice away from her at this stage could
actually send Nola over into the deep end. It's a critical time for her, and she needs all the
support and loving she can get". Later that following night Frank drops Candice over to her
grandmothers Juliana Kelly (Nuala Fitzgerald) house to baby-sit her, while he has a few drinks with
Candice's teacher Ruth Mayer (Susan Hogan) about some school activities. Juliana begins to have
a few drinks herself, and hears someone in the kitchen smashing plates and slamming the
cupboard doors .Slowly she makes her way into the kitchen to find out what all the ruckus is
about, a deformed child with a wooden mallet on the bench top begins to bash the grandmothers
head into a bloody pulp, before running upstairs and hiding under the bed. Hours later, Frank
finds the house swamped with police and detectives looking for clues and wonders why his
daughter who claimed to be asleep in bed and didn't see anything. Sooner or later Franks begins
to begins to suspect the Dr. Raglan has more than just a doctor/patient relationship with his
former wife, and soon figures out that Dr. Raglan might have a connection with bizarre killings by
supposedly deformed children.
I haven't really been very big on David Cronenberg films, though I did like Shivers and Rabid, but
not so much his cult classic Videodrone, which for some reason everyone loves to death, why I
have no fucking clue. Anyway back to talking about this review, what did I think of The Brood?
Its simple, this film was a waste of an hour and a half of my life. The story was so fucking boring,
and slow building, I ain't shitting you. I can’t recall how many fucking times I wanted to switch off
the DVD or even fast forward the movie, but nar I thought to myself "I better not do that, just in
case I miss something good". The only interesting part in this film was the very end of the movie,
but still it wasn't worth the hour I wasted watching deformed kids that look like something out of
the Aphex Twins: Come to Daddy video clip, murder and club an old women, a school teacher to
death, then kidnap a young girl. And all because (SPOILER ALERT - Because every time Nola goes
into a fit of rage because of a shitty childhood and whoever she is thinking at the time, these
killer deformed children of hers, go out on a killing spree). That's about it end of story, for fuck
sake Dave, couldn't you come up with something a bit better than that bro?
Fuck it, I ain't going to talk about this film no more, cause its pointless. The Brood is a piece of
shit, waste of time, not worth even the $10 from Amazon.com so just save your cash guys and go
and buy a packet of condoms, jizz in the fucking things and whip them at some asshole on the
street. Cause you'll get more kicks out of doing that, than watching this fucking film!
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The Brood
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