Disgusting and revolting acts combined with disturbing murders give us the results of a movie that is truly chilling. Cronenberg continues onward with the body/mind/horror themes and succeeds greatly here. He unabashedly covers past and present parental issues, using his divorce as a springboard to give us a movie that is beyond the pale and very honest.

I guess I just hate David Cronenberg.

Cronenberg makes you want to go out and love the world and all it's inhabitants.

From the era where Cronenberg could do no wrong, well worth checking out

Oft brilliant metashocker. Cronenberg's bleak vision may be light on science, but it shapes up as a genuinely creepy, downright disturbing viewing experience and represents D.C. at his megaphobic best.

It has its moments but an overall sloppy and boring film in my opinion. Regardless, I can't help but watch Cronenberg movies even when they don't impress me. You gotta dig the "birth" scene.

This is Cronenberg's first good movie.

I love me some early Cronenberg. Brood is very moody and the main element is disturbing. It doesn't go to the extremes of other Cron. of the period. Cinematography is delicious, Reed is a delight. Ending is unsatisfactory which ruins it's staying power.

What every horror movie should only HOPE to be!

Cronenberg will be the first one to tell you that this was a dark and depressing movie. No jokes. Not even gallows humor. It has some creepy little monster-kids in snowsuits. That's gotta be worth something, eh?

The concept of 'divorce' doesn't really push any of my buttons, so the central theme of this film wasn't that powerful to me. The physical manifestation concept was rather interesting, though it seems a bit mishandled. It just feels like more could have done with the ideas here. But I have to admit, this is the best 'licking a bloody fetus ripped from an outer-body meatsack' film I've seen. Beats that home video of my birth by a mile.

Creepy. I find it hilarious how this film can have a fraction of the budget of modern horror films and still be so much better than the junk that comes out now. I guess that's Cronenberg's horror genius though. Good first score for Howard Shore. The scene near the end disgusted me, but I couldn't look away. Not my favorite Cronenberg body horror, but it is good.

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Acting is a bit subpar and the script drags at times, but Cronenberg's visuals are there as usual, as is the suspense.

"We wern't looking for something so small!"

cronenberg's scariest movie.

Doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense, but still, effectively creepy - largely thanks to the good art direction and music. That said, I could have sworn I've seen that little-red-raincoat-clad killer somewhere before... oh yeah, every time I watch Nick Roeg's Don't Look Now.

despite a few cheap jump scares in the early part of the movie, the screenplay really makes up for it. by making the horrors of divorce concrete, cronenberg touches a deep well of subconscious horror and gives every killing a deeper psychological meaning. it doesn't have his creepiest effects or the best acting, but it's a very interesting, well-told horror tale.

A repellent but resonant horror film that might have been that rarity -- a modern-day horror classic -- if some of the script's loopholes had been filled in.

It is so long since I saw these early Cronenbergs (Shivers, The Brood, Rabid, Scanners) that I can't really be too confident of the scores. More specifically: another viewing could conceivably lead me to give them higher scores relative to some of Cronenberg's more recent dramas. My memory of this one is that it had something genuinely strange going on.

One of my favourite horrors, and one of my favourite of Cronenberg's. Weird, oddly frightening and unsettling, with a great ending.

100 scariest moments my ass, this movie has a sixty minute boring crap lead up to what is supposedly a scary scene. it's not a bad direction job on cronenberg's part, but he wrote it with the skill of a horse jockey trying to man a space shuttle. so, yeah, if you find eating watermelon scary you'll probably crap yourself, but if not, don't bother.

Been awhile

As if midgets needed any more bad PR.

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