The Brood

The Brood


Starring:Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald, Cindy Hinds, Susan Hogan, Gary McKeehan, Michael Magee, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Shaw, Larry Solway, Reiner Schwartz, Felix Silla, John Ferguson (III), Nicholas Campbell, Mary Swinton, Jerry Kostur, Christopher Britton (II), Elijah Siegler
Director: David Cronenberg
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Arguably the best and most personal of director David Cronenberg's early films, The Brood is an extremely unsettling horror film about familial disintegration and emotional trauma taken to a monstrous extreme. Art Hindle (Black Christmas) stars as a man embroiled in a bitter custody struggle with his estranged wife (Samantha Eggar), who is undergoing therapy at psychiatrist Oliver Reed's controversial institute. Reed's treatment causes his patients to give form to their inner conflicts, and Eggar--whose psyche is at the boiling point from childhood abuse as well as the custody trial--creates a horde of homicidal humanoid children who enact bloody revenge on anyone who has threatened their "mother." Cronenberg's first feature with name actors and composer Howard Shore has its share of gruesome moments, but the film's subtext--how emotional violence impacts a family--is its most chilling aspect. --Paul Gaita
The Brood
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Scary in any generation
  • Brooding psychological horror
  • Not the best, but
  • why is cronenberg alone in this world?
  • Another David Cronenberg gem!
 The Brood
Starring: Oliver Reed , Samantha Eggar , Art Hindle , Henry Beckman , and Nuala Fitzgerald
Director: David Cronenberg
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: B00009PY2T
Release Date: 2003-08-26

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Arguably the best and most personal of director David Cronenberg's early films, The Brood is an extremely unsettling horror film about familial disintegration and emotional trauma taken to a monstrous extreme. Art Hindle (Black Christmas) stars as a man embroiled in a bitter custody struggle with his estranged wife (Samantha Eggar), who is undergoing therapy at psychiatrist Oliver Reed's controversial institute. Reed's treatment causes his patients to give form to their inner conflicts, and Eggar--whose psyche is at the boiling point from childhood abuse as well as the custody trial--creates a horde of homicidal humanoid children who enact bloody revenge on anyone who has threatened their "mother." Cronenberg's first feature with name actors and composer Howard Shore has its share of gruesome moments, but the film's subtext--how emotional violence impacts a family--is its most chilling aspect. --Paul Gaita

Description

From famed writer-director David Cronenberg (The Dead Zone, The Fly, Scanners)comes a chillingly twisted masterpiece of psychological horror. Oliver Reed (Gladiator) and Samantha Eggar (The Astronaut's Wife) star in this shocking, intense thriller about how misdirected rage can literally take on a life of its own. Behind the walls of his secluded Somafree Institute, Dr. Hal Raglan (Reed) experiments with "Psychoplasmics," a controversial therapy designed to help release pent-up emotions in his patients. He keeps his star patient Nola (Eggar) in isolation, but as she vents her fury during their sessions, brutal murders befall the people she's angry with outside the institute. What is the connection between Raglan's methods and these monstrous killings? The answer will unleash a whole new breed of terror!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Scary in any generation.......2007-06-23

One of the best psychological horror films of all times. Reed is so good in this movie that you'll find yourself thinking that all this bizzare stuff is actually feasible.

Watch it alone for the full effect.

4 out of 5 stars Brooding psychological horror.......2007-05-03

David Cronenberg's 1979 film was an effective and highly disturbing horror piece, perhaps the first fully realized work of his career. Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar brought class to what could have turned into an over-the-top genre workout. The notion that whenever a character walked into a darkened room, a killer dwarf could come leaping out of the shadows armed with a paperweight or whatever was at hand proved reliably unsettling. One of the most chilling scenes actually takes place in a fully lit elementary teacher's classroom, proving there is no safe haven. But beyond the obvious scares is the creepiness of the psychiatrist character played by Reed, whose aggressive therapeutic techniques push Eggar to physically manifest her anger in a manner that drives the plot and sets up an effectively shocking visual for the climax. The psychological subtext keeps the viewer engaged as much as the suspense of the situations and the menacing music by Howard Shore.

3 out of 5 stars Not the best, but.......2006-12-28

Maybe it was that it was an old horror film but I didn't care for this movie that much. I searched this movie out and other movies out because they were David Cronenberg films. I really do like his work and the way they are written, but not this one. I thought that the acting was very corney and the atmosphere of the movie was not that good either. All through this movie I was wondering where the story was. The only reason that I gave this movie a 3 star rating was that it was a David Cronenberg film and it had a twist in the end.

5 out of 5 stars why is cronenberg alone in this world?.......2006-10-25

usually a maverick film maker does a few features and then right along side comes five or six imitations. not so with mr cronenberg. he has a monopoly on science-fusion-fear of tech and the mythos of psychosis. he has the enormous brain to take a very simple thing and elongate it to posit all of its potential without seeming either preachy or overdrawn. he shows stories that scare and disgust and at the end leave that burning hole like we entered a world, got our heads chopped up a bit, and somehow escaped through a generous and maybe too convenient wormhole. for this viewer, the brood was the first (of his chronologically) to set that standard. it takes place in a world of EST-like proportionality and Gerstalt-ian tactics that probably existed in another plane of our reality and somehow fell just short of our noses, where the shrinker, played with usual strong-arming by oliver reed, is holding his very special patient (samantha eggars) away from her husband and daughter, though not really against her will. don't want to spoil anything (aside: hey, don't reviews always go too far with detail and tempt you to lie and say you have seen a pic just to amass a gigantic amount of viewed pieces without the effort. no bones here, boy) else for the unfamiliar, except to say that sometimes our anger and raw emotions have to go somewhere when they exit our bodies. where, you might ask? mr. cronenberg will show you and then the way out. but you have to sit and baste here awhile first.

5 out of 5 stars Another David Cronenberg gem!.......2006-06-12

When a wife (Samantha Eggar) is at a psychiatric clinic that runs a controversial therapy experiment called "Psychoplasmics" thanks to Dr. Hal Ralgan ( Oliver Reed), while she's over there she suddenly feels inner rage about to literally come to life out of her. This therapy helps patients release out their emotions but suddenly the experiment goes wrong as it makes her create little dwarf-like creatures that begin to kill people off, her husband and daughter are threatened by these creatures because only he must find out the secret behind all this.

Shocking, intelligent and dark horror/sci-fi psychological thriller that only David Cronenberg could pull off in his unique kind of style. The storyline is complex yet kind of interesting to say and there's some scares with splatter included! there are some smart ideas about the effects of being divorced and seperated from a child with how it can bring out inner pain with a twist on the killer kid genre.

The DVD is alright with good picture & sound quality but the only extra is the theatrical trailer, this is a highly recommended movie but not for those who are light sleepers.

Also recommended: "Scanners", "Videodrome", "Basket Case", "Bloody Birthday", "3 Extremes", "The Fly ( 1986)", "The Toxic Avenger", "It's Alive!", "It Lives Again", "It's Alive III: Island of the Alive", "The Stuff", "Slither", "Monkey Shines", "Society", "The Dead Zone ( 1983)", "Possession", "Beware! Children at Play", "Demons", "Dawn of the Dead ( 2004)", "The Pit", "The Children", "A History of Violence", "Naked Lunch", "Tetsuo The Iron Man", "Dead Ringers", "Phenomena", "Night Breed", "The Fury", and "Children of the Corn".
StarCraft Widescreen DVD Movie Special Limited Edition
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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ASIN: B000FULXII

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5 out of 5 stars INFO..........2007-02-18

A galaxy on the brink of destruction. For the first time, the epic cinematics from StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War have been collected onto one disc and digitally remastered for enhanced picture quality on your DVD player. Finally, you can witness the struggle for galactic domination in its full, uninterrupted glory! Features Points: 36 minutes of cinema-quality digital animation; Exclusive director's commentary. Original development artwork and never-before-seen storyboards from the Blizzard Film Department; Cinematic trailers for StarCraft, Brood War, Diablo II, the Diablo II Expansion Set, and Warcraft III.
Ma Barker's Killer Brood / Gang Busters
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • "I'm about to divorce you the quick way."
 Ma Barker's Killer Brood / Gang Busters
Starring: Ma Barker's Killer Brood-Gangbusters
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ASIN: B0001UZWMK
Release Date: 2004-05-04

Description

Tired of being poor, Katherine Barker encourages her kids to steal -- starting with the church collection plate! By the time they're adults, Mama's not only planning the clan's capers, but joining them on jobs: "Shoot him, Herman, shoot him!" Under her homespun tutelage, Ma Barker's Killer Brood rob an armored car, kidnap a bank president, set fire to a quack plastic surgeon, and even throw a party with Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly, and "Johnny" Dillinger as guests. Though it plays havoc with the facts, Ma Barker's Killer Brood is how things should have been; after seeing this hilariously over-the-top B movie bio-pic, it's impossible to think of Ma Barker as anyone other than character actress Lurene Tuttle (Psycho) who's baking cherry pies one minute, then mowing down Feds with a machine gun the next! As a G-man puts it: "If you didn't know the old witch, you'd swear she was somebody's sweet old grandmother!" Crime films just don't come crazier than this! Plus, after twice disguising himself as a one-armed man -- and getting arrested both times! -- "Master Criminal" John Omar escapes from prison only to be buried alive in Gang Busters, an oddball "true" anti-crime epic which chooses for its subject not Public Enemy No. 1, or Public Enemy No. 2, or even Public Enemy No. 3, but Public Enemy Number Four! And remember, kids: "Some punks never learn!"

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars "I'm about to divorce you the quick way.".......2006-12-24

Something Weird Video put together this 2-film package--both directed by Bill Karn--and the DVD a great find if you're into low-budget, tawdry old gangster films. First there's "Ma Barker's Killer Brood"--the title film, and the bigger title of the two films packaged here. The second feature--Gangbusters--isn't as well known, but it's entertaining nonetheless, and both films are over-the-top, campy cheesy fun.

The film "Ma Barker's Killer Brood" follows the myth that Ma Barker (Lurene Tuttle) raised her four sons to a life of crime. The film begins with Ma Barker organizing local, petty crime sprees that lead to them being thrown out of town. Ma Barker--whose childhood was "too much bible and too little beef"--is depicted as the evil genius behind the Barker gang--whacking her sons around if they show any hesitation or the slightest shred of humanity. She even outfoxes Machine Gun Kelly (Victor Lundin) and his moll, Lou (Myrna Dell) while sealing Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson's loyalty to her through her home cooked cherry pies. The film is great lurid fun--even though it takes huge liberties with the facts and basically repeats the popular mythic version of Ma Barker as the criminal mastermind behind the gang--a myth that was supposedly encouraged by J. Edgar Hoover to justify her death after a big shootout with the FBI. In spite of the fact the story takes great liberties with the truth, there are still some correct elements here--including the kidnapping of a banker and the murder of Doc Moran who performed plastic surgery on Fred Barker and Alvin Karpis.

The second film, "Gangbusters" is about "Public Enemy number 4" John Omar Pinson (Myron Healey)--master criminal and escape artist. Pinson often masquerades as a one-armed man (and this really looks ridiculous). The film begins with a depiction of Oregon as a state horribly overrun by crime--and the watchtowers of the Oregon State Prison seem to loom over the entire state. The film's intro includes a heavy moral message that we viewers mustn't admire Pinson's exploits, and this is particularly funny since the entire film makes the point that Pinson has remarkable talent when it comes to eluding the police, breaking out of jail and inspiring loyalty from his fellow thugs. The plot follows Pinson's crimes and his elaborate jail breaks. "Gangbusters" is flawed in spots, and words skip at several points in the film.

Special features include trailers and "Gun Girls"--a 30 minute short film that's great fun. It's one of those delinquent 'bad girl' features, and if you enjoy those, then you'll love "Gun Girls"--displacedhuman
Ma Barker's Killer Brood
Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
  • Not in keeping with actual events, and sappy as well.
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Starring: Lurene Tuttle , Tristram Coffin , Paul Dubov , Nelson Leigh , and Myrna Dell
Director: Bill Karn
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ASIN: B00009NH8L
Release Date: 2003-07-22

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Not in keeping with actual events, and sappy as well........2005-07-15

Supposedly based upon the life of Ozark matriarch Ma Barker and her four felonious public enemy sons, this meanly made low budget example of drive-in movie schlock actually treats several incidents in the real-life career of the notorious Barker/Karpis Gang which was very active during 1931/35 from the Midwest into Southeast U.S., but so contorts the truth in order to create a lurid melodrama that a viewer is alienated from the proceedings, especially in light of obvious cut-rate production values. Al Karpis was the confirmed master hand behind the Gang's string of sinful successes whereas the factual Ma Barker, although enjoying holding open house for various fugitives, only travelled with her family and was patently incapable of organizing more than luncheons, whereas in this poorly scripted travesty Lurene Tuttle as a tommygun wielding sadistic sociopath performs a raft of maniacal actions, including running over a policeman twice, all while planning the Gang's adventures and serving up heist advice to respectful triggermen such as John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly and Baby Face Nelson.

Classic Gangster Movies (Ma Barker's Killer Brood / Gangs, Inc. / Gangster Story)
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    ASIN: B000069HRP
    Release Date: 2002-08-27

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    3 Great Movies on 1 DVD. Star Power, Exciting Genre with Extras on each DVD.
    Action Classics: The Bloody Brood/The Fast and the Furious/Mutiny in the Big House/Swamp Women
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      The Bloody Brood
      Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
      • When Beatniks Attack or Hepcats From Hell...
      • Peter Falk as a Psychopathic Drug Dealing Beatnik Murderer !
      		 The Bloody Brood
      Starring: Jack Betts , Barbara Lord , Peter Falk , Robert Christie , and Ron Hartmann
      Director: Julian Roffman
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      ASIN: B0000D1FGX
      Release Date: 2003-11-18

      Customer Reviews:

      3 out of 5 stars When Beatniks Attack or Hepcats From Hell..........2004-04-02

      Peter Falk is Nico, a smack dealer who poses as the leader of a merry band of beatniks. Nico's not just cool man, he's like crazy baby! He watches an old bum die and decides it is the ultimate kickeroo. Later at a swinging party, complete with goofy dancing, goatees, bongos, and a sea of turtleneck sweaters, Nico and his croany decide to feed an unlucky messenger boy a fatal ground-glass burger just to watch him die. Thankfully, the victim's non-beatnik brother Cliff (Jack Betts) sets out to catch those responsible for his sibling's death. Cliff delves into the dark, dank, terminally hep underbelly of beatnik culture looking for clues. He turns out to be one of the only ones among them with either a conscience or a brain. He is finally helped by a girl (Barbara Lord) who is disillusioned with Nico. Together, they attempt to cramp Nico's style. THE BLOODY BROOD is full of quasi-philosophical musings about life, death, work, etc., and priceless quotes like, "Did he die, or was he murdered by life?" WOW! That's deep, man! So, just pull up a floorpillow, put on your sandals and raybans, and tune into the scene! ...

      4 out of 5 stars Peter Falk as a Psychopathic Drug Dealing Beatnik Murderer !.......2003-11-20

      First, I should mention that the edition I've seen is not this one, but the one put out by SWV - - I mention this, because sometimes same movie/different cut can almost amount to a different movie (even a different ending), but that may not necessarily be the case. - Whatever, see an unbelievably young Peter Falk make his film acting debut in a North of the border (Canadian) film as a "cool" cold blooded drug dealing "beatnik" who commits a murder just for the kicks of it. He does it by feeding "ground glass" to a young "square" all American type delivery boy, who's brother gets on the case, makes the scene and tries to pin it on him. - - In all honesty, I had a lot of trouble believing that you could actually kill someone by feeding them glass... so (proving myself to have way to much time on the internet) I looked it up... and one of those "urban legend" sights confirmed : though a popular way of killing someone in many murder/mystery books and movies... it is quite unrealistic... but still, its just a movie right ?

      While this film lacks the cool daddy-o finger popping hipness and quirk of my all time favorite "beatsploitation" film THE FAT BLACK PUSSYCAT, and at times has all the excitement of a COLUMBO episode (you can tell the director *was* definitely a square) its still a good film if you're a b-movie junky... or you just want to get the kick out of seeing a very young Peter Falk playing the warped leader of a "beatnik" gang. Incidentally, I kinda dug that Maynard G. Krebs type character... I have a bobble head at my bar in Tokyo that looks just like him !

      If you're interested in Beatnik culture in general, check out RHINO'S BEAT GENERATION box [set] while you're at it... and again, SWVs double FEATURE DVD the BLACK CAT which is coupled with THE FAT BLACK PUSSYCAT.
      16 Feature Action Films: The Bloody Brood / the Fast and the Furious (1954) / Mutiny in the Big House / Swamp Women / Boys' Reformatory / Dark Mountain / Hurricane Express / Fire Alarm / the Black Godfather / Dirty Games / Slipstream.. & Many More...
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        		16 Feature Action Films: The Bloody Brood / the Fast and the Furious (1954) / Mutiny in the Big House / Swamp Women / Boys' Reformatory / Dark Mountain / Hurricane Express / Fire Alarm / the Black Godfather / Dirty Games / Slipstream.. & Many More...

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        BESIDE THE ABOVE MENTIONED TITLES THIS SET ALSO INCLUDES: The Train Killer / The Chain Reaction / The Death Merchants / Embassy Deadly Impact. [16 full length action movies on 4 DVDs]
        The David Cronenberg Collection Vol. 1
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          		The David Cronenberg Collection Vol. 1

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          • Rare Uncut Versions
          • Photo Galleries & Trailers
          • Audio Commentaries
          • Interactive Menus
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          ASIN: B000GJTLIC

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          This 3 Disc Collection contains: SHIVERS: Director's Cut, THE BROOD: Uncut Edition, and RABID: Uncut Special Edition.
          The Brood [Region 2]
          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
          • Scary in any generation
          • Brooding psychological horror
          • Not the best, but
          • why is cronenberg alone in this world?
          • Another David Cronenberg gem!
          		 The Brood [Region 2]
          Starring: Oliver Reed , Samantha Eggar , Art Hindle , Henry Beckman , and Nuala Fitzgerald
          Director: David Cronenberg
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          1. Scanners
          2. Rabid
          3. Videodrome - Criterion Collection
          4. Dead Ringers
          5. Spider

          ASIN: B00004CZO5

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          Arguably the best and most personal of director David Cronenberg's early films, The Brood is an extremely unsettling horror film about familial disintegration and emotional trauma taken to a monstrous extreme. Art Hindle (Black Christmas) stars as a man embroiled in a bitter custody struggle with his estranged wife (Samantha Eggar), who is undergoing therapy at psychiatrist Oliver Reed's controversial institute. Reed's treatment causes his patients to give form to their inner conflicts, and Eggar--whose psyche is at the boiling point from childhood abuse as well as the custody trial--creates a horde of homicidal humanoid children who enact bloody revenge on anyone who has threatened their "mother." Cronenberg's first feature with name actors and composer Howard Shore has its share of gruesome moments, but the film's subtext--how emotional violence impacts a family--is its most chilling aspect. --Paul Gaita

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars Scary in any generation.......2007-06-23

          One of the best psychological horror films of all times. Reed is so good in this movie that you'll find yourself thinking that all this bizzare stuff is actually feasible.

          Watch it alone for the full effect.

          4 out of 5 stars Brooding psychological horror.......2007-05-03

          David Cronenberg's 1979 film was an effective and highly disturbing horror piece, perhaps the first fully realized work of his career. Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar brought class to what could have turned into an over-the-top genre workout. The notion that whenever a character walked into a darkened room, a killer dwarf could come leaping out of the shadows armed with a paperweight or whatever was at hand proved reliably unsettling. One of the most chilling scenes actually takes place in a fully lit elementary teacher's classroom, proving there is no safe haven. But beyond the obvious scares is the creepiness of the psychiatrist character played by Reed, whose aggressive therapeutic techniques push Eggar to physically manifest her anger in a manner that drives the plot and sets up an effectively shocking visual for the climax. The psychological subtext keeps the viewer engaged as much as the suspense of the situations and the menacing music by Howard Shore.

          3 out of 5 stars Not the best, but.......2006-12-28

          Maybe it was that it was an old horror film but I didn't care for this movie that much. I searched this movie out and other movies out because they were David Cronenberg films. I really do like his work and the way they are written, but not this one. I thought that the acting was very corney and the atmosphere of the movie was not that good either. All through this movie I was wondering where the story was. The only reason that I gave this movie a 3 star rating was that it was a David Cronenberg film and it had a twist in the end.

          5 out of 5 stars why is cronenberg alone in this world?.......2006-10-25

          usually a maverick film maker does a few features and then right along side comes five or six imitations. not so with mr cronenberg. he has a monopoly on science-fusion-fear of tech and the mythos of psychosis. he has the enormous brain to take a very simple thing and elongate it to posit all of its potential without seeming either preachy or overdrawn. he shows stories that scare and disgust and at the end leave that burning hole like we entered a world, got our heads chopped up a bit, and somehow escaped through a generous and maybe too convenient wormhole. for this viewer, the brood was the first (of his chronologically) to set that standard. it takes place in a world of EST-like proportionality and Gerstalt-ian tactics that probably existed in another plane of our reality and somehow fell just short of our noses, where the shrinker, played with usual strong-arming by oliver reed, is holding his very special patient (samantha eggars) away from her husband and daughter, though not really against her will. don't want to spoil anything (aside: hey, don't reviews always go too far with detail and tempt you to lie and say you have seen a pic just to amass a gigantic amount of viewed pieces without the effort. no bones here, boy) else for the unfamiliar, except to say that sometimes our anger and raw emotions have to go somewhere when they exit our bodies. where, you might ask? mr. cronenberg will show you and then the way out. but you have to sit and baste here awhile first.

          5 out of 5 stars Another David Cronenberg gem!.......2006-06-12

          When a wife (Samantha Eggar) is at a psychiatric clinic that runs a controversial therapy experiment called "Psychoplasmics" thanks to Dr. Hal Ralgan ( Oliver Reed), while she's over there she suddenly feels inner rage about to literally come to life out of her. This therapy helps patients release out their emotions but suddenly the experiment goes wrong as it makes her create little dwarf-like creatures that begin to kill people off, her husband and daughter are threatened by these creatures because only he must find out the secret behind all this.

          Shocking, intelligent and dark horror/sci-fi psychological thriller that only David Cronenberg could pull off in his unique kind of style. The storyline is complex yet kind of interesting to say and there's some scares with splatter included! there are some smart ideas about the effects of being divorced and seperated from a child with how it can bring out inner pain with a twist on the killer kid genre.

          The DVD is alright with good picture & sound quality but the only extra is the theatrical trailer, this is a highly recommended movie but not for those who are light sleepers.

          Also recommended: "Scanners", "Videodrome", "Basket Case", "Bloody Birthday", "3 Extremes", "The Fly ( 1986)", "The Toxic Avenger", "It's Alive!", "It Lives Again", "It's Alive III: Island of the Alive", "The Stuff", "Slither", "Monkey Shines", "Society", "The Dead Zone ( 1983)", "Possession", "Beware! Children at Play", "Demons", "Dawn of the Dead ( 2004)", "The Pit", "The Children", "A History of Violence", "Naked Lunch", "Tetsuo The Iron Man", "Dead Ringers", "Phenomena", "Night Breed", "The Fury", and "Children of the Corn".

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          4. Sleepy Hollow
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          7. Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later (Dimension Collector's Series)
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          9. Dog Soldiers (Ws Sub)
          10. Frankenstein - The Legacy Collection (Frankenstein / Bride of / Son of / Ghost of / House of)

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