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The Brood [1979] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: David Cronenberg Actors: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald Studio: Anchor Bay Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£16.99~~ Buy New: £3.38 as of 22/11/2009 23:42 GMT details You Save: £13.61 (80%) New (17) Used (5) from £2.75 Seller: findprice Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 18397 Format: Anamorphic, Box set, PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number Of Discs: 2 Running Time: 88 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060020624124 ASIN: B0009S9LQ2 Theatrical Release Date: 1979 Release Date: July 18, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Entenn June 15, 2008 Mate Jako (Hungary) 7 out of 10 found this review helpful Oh hoh! I can't believe it nobody was writing a review about this masterpiece which is one of the best of the Cronemberg's. I was terrified and disgusted of this movie! A true horror about the power of the human mind and the unsecured insanity caused by science! Highly recommended!!! Early fine Cronenberg June 11, 2009 Markus Gossas (Stockholm, Sweden) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful I like Cronenbergs early movies (The Brood, Scanners) better than his later. The Brood is a very disturbing tale about psychoanalysis, rage and families. A mother is involved in isolated psychotherapy ("Psychoplasmic") and her husband is trying to reach her. The setting feels very 1970s. As in Scanners and Videodrome the relation between mind and body is explored in a scary way. br / br /The film iself is 5 stars, but the packaging is not. The transfer is not very good, it seems a little out of focus (but the colors are ok and there is no dirt/scratches) and is probably better on smaller TVs (I watched it on a projector). Also, I can't understand why some labels refuse to state the year of production!? The Brood is (I think) fråm 1979 (the DVD cover only states that the DVD was made 2005... And the cover art...looks too silly). Anyway, recommended, but maybe we will see a better edition sometime. Psychoplasmics, Murderous Children and Oliver Reed: The Brood July 30, 2008 Bored@Work (Devon, England) 7 out of 7 found this review helpful The Brood was David Cronenberg's third feature release and the film that got him noticed outside Canada and the horror genre. With heavy weight actors Oliver Reed and Samantha Egger, Cronenberg's excellent script - Oliver Reed said it was the best written part he had had since The Devils - and a story more psychological than outright horror, though there are a few gory scenes, Mr Cronenberg was onto a winner. This is a film that stays with you long after the final credits have rolled. There are many influences playing through the film, the brood children are reminiscent of the 'dwarf' from Don't Look Now, Howard Shore's excellent strings only score a nod to Bernard Herrman's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. br /The picture quality is okay for a film of this vintage, however, this film could have done with a digital wash and brush-up, as some of the interior scenes are a little washed out, lacking contrast and definition. A 5.1 soundtrack would have been welcome too, but the audio is okay if not brilliant. There is a nice little docu about the films of David Cronenberg - up to eXistenZ and a bunch of trailers, one for The Brood, Scanners and surprisingly (as he had nothing to do with them) Scanners II and Scanners III. Also some bios of the cast. br /On this two disc version (very good value for money) there is the UNCUT UK release version and if your interested on the second disc the American version - which Cronenberg hated because of some cuts made by the censors which gave a different twist to the end! br /Get this DVD now! it should be in your collection, quick before some idiot does a remake with CGI brood and no plot or subtext! A new kind of therapy. July 24, 2009 Puzzle box (Kuwait) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful 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 frustrating it is when separated parents have to fight for the custody of their own child as Cronenberg himself was going through a divorce. Frank Carveth (Art Hindle)starts to question the treatment his wife Nola played by Samantha Eggar is receiving at the clinic of Dr. hal Raglan (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 frustrations 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 definitely had a creepy and unsettling feeling that I had from watching it, it also had an intelligent storyline and it seemed more like a personal horror film then the sort of weird mixture of science fiction and horror that Cronenberg usually does so I definitely 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. Note:- this region 2 anchor bay edition has both the U.S. uncut film and the U.K. cut version (this was useless) and the documentary The Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg Featurette, if you had to choose which version to get then I suggest you get this one over the inferior MGM edition. More schlock than horror August 18, 2009 Lou Knee (England) Made in the golden age of schlock, (the mid 70s to early 80s) this is a typical movie of the era and of the horror genre of that period. It is weird but inventive, suspenseful but lacking in credibility. It certainly isn't the worst horror film I've seen and it is definitely one of the more original. It's worth a look for horror movie fans who haven't yet seen it, but I expect all Cronenberg fans have. Overall it's entertaining and suitably creepy, if a little lacking in background detail, as some pretty vital elements are poorly explained. I don't think it will ever be a classic but it's a good minor horror flick with a compelling narrative. Also there are two versions here which others have said are quite different, so the version I haven't yet watched (the US edit, a fuller version) might be a touch more comprehensible. There are some good extras here too, a Cronenberg featurette and the most thorough biographies of the film's stars you are ever likely to read on DVD, which I think is a nice touch.

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