The Brood

The Brood is a 1979 Canadian horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg. It starred Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle.

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Typically for Cronenberg, the film externalises human thought and emotion onto human physiology. In this case, an unconventional psychotherapist (Oliver Reed) has created a technique called "psychoplasmics." He encourages his patients to "go all the way through it" and allow their negative emotions (rage, fear, etc.) to cause their bodies to undergo (usually radical) physical change. A man verbally abused by his father develops welts over his body as a way of expressing his pain. Another patient developes lymphatic cancer, supposedly a manifestation of his self-hatred.

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Horror film: The horror cinematic genre is characterized by the attempt to make the viewer experience dread, fear, terror, or horror. Its plots often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event or personage, sometimes of supernatural origin, on the mundane world and the consequences thereof....

David Cronenberg: David Paul Cronenberg (born March 16, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film director and occasional actor of Jewish descent. He is one of the principal originators of what is sometimes known as the "body horror" genre, which explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In ...

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