Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

woodcoinmagazine Somewhere between Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Gremlins, this antique gem of a horror movie was released without much fanfare despite a lavish "gory kitchen scene". (Maybe because it was filmed in Canada and it wasn't widely distributed in the USA?) Anyway, this is Cronenberg's breakout movie and it deserves some attention. The inimitable Oliver Reed stars as an alternative psychiatrist working on deep methods for processing buried rage. His star patient (Samantha Eggar in a scenery chewing performance worthy of a look) is a mother with anger issues; when people wind up murdered by tiny assassins it's a good bet that Reed's methodology is the cause. Part intellectual horror, part blood and guts, part psychological mystery, this film should be seen by anyone who seriously studies the genre and also by fans of unusual scary stories. It's a B-grade thriller from start to finish. The child censorship laws of this century would make this film unreleasable now and it's a rare treat to see what was acceptable in films just under 40 years ago. The fact that Cronenberg assumes his audience is intellectually capable of following some fairly intricate dialog and plot complexities is another throwback to a bygone era.

moonspinner55 Nightmarish horror film from writer-director David Cronenberg, an early effort but one no less effective, was critically-panned at the time of its release but has since gained cult status with fans of the genre. A disturbed woman in a custody struggle with her estranged husband over their little girl is one of the in-patients at an institute run by an acclaimed psychotherapist. After her elderly mother and father are both found dead of violent beatings--apparently done by freakishly strong children--the husband believes the cool, imposing therapist knows the secret behind the mystery. Well-made and well-acted, "The Brood" is nevertheless uncomfortably (and unpleasantly) physical, particularly at the finale when the effects become too grisly. However, Cronenberg mounts his scenario meticulously; he knows how to grab a willing audience with his assured visuals, and the film is guaranteed to have fainthearted viewers holding their breath. ** from ****

Michael Radny It's original, I'll give it that and there are some very satisfying moments. I believe the initial idea was well done, but I can't help think that at least half an hour of this film was just to fill in the time. The kids are creepy, which is good and David Cronenburge does make a good horror film out of this. But it does lose its pace along the line and I felt like I was going in and out of the experience. Maybe a bit of a shame considering who was behind the camera, but it does have some promising qualities about it. It's not his greatest film, but it's also not his worst. Probably give it a skip if you're looking for his best. Only for die-hard Cronenburge fans.

Claudio Carvalho The unconventional psychotherapist Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) uses a unique technique developed by him to expose the repressed feelings of his patients. Frank Carveth (Art Hindle) brings his daughter Candice (Cindy Hinds) home after spending the weekend visiting his ex-wife Nola Carveth (Samantha Eggar) that is interned in Dr. Raglan's Somafree Institute. He finds bruises on Candice's body and he tells Dr. Raglan that he will not bring Candice to visit Nola anymore. Meanwhile Dr. Raglan learns that Nola was abused by her mother and not protected by her father when she was young.Frank leaves Candice with his mother-in-law Juliana Kelly (Nuala Fitzgerald) to work, but she is attacked by a dwarf-like creature and brutally murdered. Her ex-husband Barton Kelly (Henry Beckman) comes to town for the funeral, but he is murdered by the same creature. However Frank kills the creature and the autopsy shows that it is not a human offspring. Then Candice's teacher Ruth Mayer (Susan Hogan) has an argument by phone with Nola and she is murdered in front of her class by two creatures that abduct Candice. Frank heads to Somafree and discovers the secret of the deformed children. "The Brood" is among the best horror movies by David Cronenberg. The plot is very well constructed and the gruesome conclusion is disturbing. The idea of Nola licking the fetus was conceived by Samantha Eggar and censored by censors in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. However the Brazilian DVD presents the uncensored version at least of this scene. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Os Filhos do Medo" ("The Sons of the Fear")