Many rank VIDEODROME as Cronenberg's greatest film, and although I agree that it is a great film - I personally enjoy THE BROOD more than any of his other entries. It's creepy in it's build-up, with an ending that is completely over-the-top and unexpected...
The story is pretty in-depth but basically is about a couple, where the wife is involved in some sort of experimental psychotherapy from a shady therapist to deal with anger issues. At the same time a group of dwarfish looking freaks is causing a rash of murders and the woman's husband and their child are caught in the middle. It gradually becomes made known that the wife is at the "center" of the issue, until all is made known in the "shocking" conclusion...
Cronenberg continues with his common themes of transformation, mutation, and body-horror in THE BROOD, and is personally my favorite example - though films like RABID, SHIVERS, VIDEODROME, and several others are close runners-up, as I'm a fan of most of Cronenberg's work in general. A great film with some truly unnerving and shocking sequences...Definitely a "must-see"...9/10
The story is pretty in-depth but basically is about a couple, where the wife is involved in some sort of experimental psychotherapy from a shady therapist to deal with anger issues. At the same time a group of dwarfish looking freaks is causing a rash of murders and the woman's husband and their child are caught in the middle. It gradually becomes made known that the wife is at the "center" of the issue, until all is made known in the "shocking" conclusion...
Cronenberg continues with his common themes of transformation, mutation, and body-horror in THE BROOD, and is personally my favorite example - though films like RABID, SHIVERS, VIDEODROME, and several others are close runners-up, as I'm a fan of most of Cronenberg's work in general. A great film with some truly unnerving and shocking sequences...Definitely a "must-see"...9/10