One of Cronenberg's earliest, but also one of his best. It's a weird and gross journey into his post-divorced mind that plays out wonderfully on screen.

One of the films that gave rise to the term "body horror," David Cronenberg's 1979 shocker is a characteristic mix of the sombre, the wacky and the viscerally grotesque.

The Brood is the stuff of nightmares on every level, the recurring kind that stick with you and infect the rest of your day, long after you wake up. A dark, twisted parable, it stands as one of David Cronenberg's most unsettling works.

Cronenberg keeps such a distance from his characters that there's virtually no involvement. But he does an effective, efficient, cold job on it.

Rage, between people in love, gives birth to nasty things we'd rather believe never existed in us.

[Cronenberg's] rapid fire direction keeps you bouncing back and forth between laughter and shock with only minor stops for explanatory dialogue and his satirical sophistication never stoops to cheap parody.

the horrors are simultaneously literal and allegorical, springing from a deep emotional well that transcends the bounds of conventional drama

As is often the case with Cronenberg, the intriguing subtext (here, the damage caused by divorce and the dubious benefits of psychology) is neutered by an amateurish and even risible storyline as well as inconsistent characters who make little sense.

A cinematic bad dream that generates recurring nightmares.

Shedding the grindhouse skin of the early films for a cool-clinical sheen, Cronenberg exhumes the deformed feelings of relationships erected on circles of pain while locating a bruised new dignity in the characters caught in them

it's Cronenberg's Kramer Vs. Kramer - although Benton's film never featured dwarfish homicidal psychopaths amongst its methods for bridging irreconcilable differences.

Another terrifying gem from Cronenberg's early years

May be the most damning movie ever made about psychiatry.

One of the great filmmaker's best films, and a stylistic -- if not budgetary -- breakthrough.

The Brood is an el sleazo exploitation film, camouflaged by the presence of several well-known stars but guaranteed to nauseate you all the same.

A definitive metaphor for the coldness and cruelty of acrimonious divorce.

One of Cronenberg's most compelling and unsettling works.