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The Brood ()

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A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
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Dr. Hal Raglan
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Nola Carveth
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Frank Carveth
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Barton Kelly
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Juliana Kelly
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Candice Carveth
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Ruth Mayer
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Mike Trellan
Michael Magee ...
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Jan Hartog (as Robert Silverman)
Joseph Shaw ...
Coroner
Larry Solway ...
Lawyer
Reiner Schwarz ...
Dr. Birkin
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John Ferguson ...
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Chris
Mary Swinton ...
Wendy
Jerry Kostur ...
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Man in Auditorium (as Christopher Britton)
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Elijah Siegler ...
Samson (uncredited)

Directed by

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David Cronenberg

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David Cronenberg ... (written by)

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Roger Corman ... distribution producer (uncredited)
Pierre David ... executive producer
Claude Héroux ... producer (as Claude Heroux)
Victor Solnicki ... executive producer

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Howard Shore

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Mark Irwin ... director of photography

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Alan Collins

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John Board ... post-production coordinator
Carolyn Cronenberg ... assistant picture editor (as Carolyn Zeifman)

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Carol Spier

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James D. Brown ... hair stylist (as James Brown)
Shonagh Jabour ... makeup artist
Inge Klaudi ... assistant makeup artist
Dennis Pike ... special makeup
Jack H. Young ... special makeup (as Jack Young)

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Gwen Iveson ... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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John Board ... first assistant director
Libby Bowden ... second assistant director

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Michael Fruet ... assistant set dresser
Bill Harman ... construction manager
Peter Lauterman ... property master
Tom Reid ... assistant props
Angelo Stea ... set dresser

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Peter Burgess ... sound editor
Bryan Day ... sound recordist
Joe Grimaldi ... sound re-recordist
Brian Holland ... dialogue editor
Jeremy MacLaverty ... assistant sound editor
Tom Mather ... boom operator
Lois Tupper ... assistant dialogue editor
Don White ... adr recordist
Andy Malcolm ... foley artist (uncredited)

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Allan Cotter ... special effects (as Allan Kotter)

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Jock Brandis ... gaffer
Carlo Campana ... grip
Bob Gallant ... best boy
Maris H. Jansons ... key grip (as Maris Jansons)
Robin Miller ... first assistant camera
Rick Porter ... still photographer
Gregory Villeneuve ... second assistant camera (as Greg Villeneuve)

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Hilary Holden ... casting: Los Angeles

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Granada Venné ... assistant wardrobe
Delphine White ... wardrobe mistress

Location Management

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David Coatsworth ... location manager

Script and Continuity Department

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Nancy Eagles ... continuity

Additional Crew

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Wayne Arron ... production accountant
Ed Carlin ... consultant to producers
Patrick Dodd ... marketing: Publifilms Ltd.
Maureen Fitzgerald ... production assistant
Jim McAnena ... marketing: Publifilms Ltd.
Bob Murphy ... production assistant
Vivian Palin ... craft service
Nick Schefter ... production assistant
Jay Telfer ... craft service
Robert Wertheimer ... production assistant (as Bob Wertheimer)
Trudy Work ... production secretary
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Plot Summary

A man's wife is under the care of an eccentric and unconventional psychologist who uses innovative and theatrical techniques to breach the psychological blocks in his patients. When their daughter comes back from a visit with her mother and is covered with bruises and welts, the father attempts to bar his wife from seeing the daughter but faces resistance from the secretive psychologist. Meanwhile, the wife's mother and father are attacked by strangely deformed children, and the man begins to suspect a connection with the psychologist's methods. Written by Ed Sutton

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Taglines A unique experience in inner terror. See more »
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Also Known As
  • David Cronenberg's the Brood (Canada, English title)
  • La clinique de la terreur (Canada, French title)
  • Chromosome 3 (France)
  • Cromosoma 3 (Spain, Catalan title)
  • Cromosoma tres (Spain)
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  • 92 min
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Budget CAD1,400,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia David Cronenberg wrote the film following the tumultuous divorce and child-custody battle he waged against Margaret Hindson. Cronenberg also said that Samantha Eggar's character, Nola Carveth, possessed some of the characteristics of his ex-wife. See more »
Goofs Just after the first murder, the deformed/mutant child who committed it leaves very large, bloody handprints on the stair railing just near the dead body. These handprints are never mentioned again, in particular by the police, who insist later that they were "never looking for anything that small." It would have been impossible to miss these handprints at the crime scene, and such child-sized handprints would have certainly tipped off the police in a different direction upon discovery. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in The Promise, The Prisoner of Zenda, Saint Jack, Alien, Battlestar Galactica, The Brood, The Passage (1979). See more »
Crazy Credits Special thanks to Dr. Denton: Sleepware. See more »
Quotes Juliana Kelly: Thirty seconds after you're born you have a past and sixty seconds after that you begin to lie to yourself about it.
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