The Brood (1979)
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Directors
David Cronenberg
Cast
Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald
The story
Dr. Hal Raglan, a psychotherapist, encourages patients with mental disturbances to let go of their suppressed emotions through physiological changes to their bodies in a technique he calls "psychoplasmics". One of his patients is Nola Carveth, a severely disturbed woman who is legally embattled with her husband Frank for custody of their five-year-old daughter Candice.
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Horror, Sci-Fi, body horror film, horror film, independent film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
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