Horror Daily Double: The Brood, Who Can Kill A Child?

Canadian director David Cronenberg, who spent most of the ’70s carefully building a resume of low-budget sci-fi, took one last detour in “respectable” cinema with the racing drama Fast Company before deciding, “Screw it, I’m going to make fetus-licking, dwarf-murdering horror of maternity run amok.” That movie was The Brood, which put Cronenberg on the world map, and caused Roger Ebert to muse, “What’s the purpose of this film (other than to serve as a tax shelter, of course)?” Oliver Reed stars as a psychologist who pushes his patient to wear and mentally vent their issues through their own flesh, being an ample springboard for Cronenberg’s trademark body horror. The bad doctor’s star patient is played by Samantha Eggar, currently engaged in a protracted custody battle with her ex-husband. Of course, if she can’t see her kid, she’ll just make her own, a clan of tiny asexual monsters in tracksuits who do her bloody bidding.

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