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The Brood (1979) Country of Origin: Canada
Year of Production: 1978
Running Times: 91 mins (USA) 93 mins (UK)
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: mono CREDITS PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Elgin International Films Ltd / Mutual Productions Ltd / Canadian Film Development Corporation
Executive Producers: Victor Solnicki, Pierre David
Producer: Claude Heroux
Production Manager: Gwen Iveson SCRIPT
Script: David Cronenberg DIRECTION
Director: David Cronenberg
1st Assistant Director: John Board
2nd Assistant Director: Libby Bowden PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Mark Irwin
1st Assistant Camera: Robin Miller
2nd Assistant Camera: Greg Villeneuve
Gaffer: Jock Brandis
Best Boy: Bob Gallant
Key Grip: Maris Jansons
Grip: Carlo Campana
Stills: Rick Porter
Panaflex Camera and Lenses: Panavision
Laboratory: Medallion Film Laboratories, Toronto, Canada EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Allan Collins
Assistant Editor: Carolyn Zeifman
Post Production Coordinator: John Board MUSIC
Music: Howard Shore SOUND
Sound Recording: Bryan Day
Boom Operator: Tom Mather
Re-Recording: Joe Grimaldi
Sound Editor: Peter Burgess
Assistant Sound Editor: Jeremy MacLaverty
Dialogue Editor: Brian Holland
Assistant Dialogue Editor: Lois Tupper
Mixing Facilities: Pathé Sound and Post Production Centre MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Shonagh Jabour
Assistant Make Up: Inge Klaudi
Hair: James Brown
Wardrobe Mistress: Delphine White
Assistant Wardrobe: Granada Venné SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up: Jack Young, Dennis Pike SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Allan Cotter VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles and Opticals: Film Opticals, Toronto, Canada DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Carol Spier
Set Dresser: Angelo Stea
Property Master: Peter Lauterman
Assistant Props: Tony Reid
Set Dresser: Angelo Stea
Assistant Set Dresser: Michael Fruet
Construction Manager: Bill Harman MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Nancy Eagles
Production Accountant: Wayne Arron
Production Secretary: Trudy Work
Production Assistants: Maureen Fitzgerald, Bob Wertheimer, Nick Scheffer, Bob Murphy
Unit Publicity: Stephen Chesley Associates
World Wide Publicity: Paratel
Marketing: Publifilms Ltd, Jim McAnena, Patrick Dodd
Craft Services: Vivian Palin, Jay Teller
Consultant to the Producer: Ed Carlin LOCATIONS
Locations: Magder Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Mississauga, Ontario, Canada; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Location Manager: David Coatsworth ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: Gymnastisc Mississauga; Xoces-Eagles School of Gymnastics; Mercedes-Benz of Canada Limited; Evex Importers and Distributors Inc; Julian International Limited; Barbara Hammond "Valleyfields" courtesy of Mississauga Cable 1; Gallery Danielli Ltd; Elen Henderson Ltd; Elliott Saunders Ltd; Dr Denton's Sleepware; Adidas (Canada) Ltd CASTING
Casting (Toronto): Canadian Casting Association
Casting (Los Angeles): Hilary Holden CAST
Oliver Reed (Dr Hal Raglan)
Samantha Eggar (Nola Carveth)
Art Hindle (Frank Carveth)
Henry Beckman (Barton Kelly)
Nuala Fitzgerald (Juliana Kelly)
Cindy Hinds (Candice Carveth)
Susan Hogan (Ruth Mayer)
Gary McKeehan (Mike Trellan)
Michael Magee (inspector)
Robert A. Silverman (Jan Hartog)
Joseph Shaw (coroner)
Larry Solway (lawyer)
Reiner Schwartz (Dr Birkin)
Felix Silla, John Ferguson (creatures)
Nicholas Campbell (Chris)
Mary Swinton (Wendy)
Jerry Kostur (construction worker)
Christopher Britton (man in auditorium)
Elijah Siegler (Samson - uncredited) PLOT SUMMARY Frank and Nola Carveth are undergoing a traumatic divorce. She's in teh care of teh controversial psychiatrist Dr Hal Raglan who is exploring a new technique encouraging his patients to 'externalise' their rage. When their daughter, Candice, returns from a visit to her mother covered in bruises, Frank is understandably concerned. When Nola's mother and father are murdered by a pack of sinister children, Frank begins to suspect that there's more going on at Carveth's clinic than meets the eye... CAPSULE REVIEW Cronenberg's therapeutic film (he made it in response to his own real-life divorce and custody battle) is by definition his most personal. It's also one of his most unsettling, no mean feat given the quality of the rest of his oeuvre. On the one level, it's a straight ahead monster movie; on the other its about the much more distressing horrors of family life, of child abuse and about the dangers of wayward psychiatric practices. As bleak as the winter it was filmed in, The Brood is the dark side of Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and is essential viewing for anyone interested in Cronenberg's skewed vision of the world. AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Alpha Films
Video Distributors: Intervision; 4 Front (0576743 - 1997); 4 Front (0585543
- triple pack with Rabid and Shivers, 1999); Polygram (1998); Video
Gems (R1635 - double pack with Rabid, 1993); Arrow (FC063))
DVD Distributor: Arrow (FCD063); Anchor Bay Entertainment (ABD4412)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: New World Pictures
Video Distributor: Embassy Home Entertainment
Laserdisc Distributor: Image Entertainment Inc CENSORSHIP HISTORY Australia
Rating: R Canada
Rating: Restricted France
Rating: -16 UK
Rating: X; 18 USA
Rating: X; later recut and rated R AWARDS 1980
Genie Awards
Best Achievement in Art Direction / Production Design (Carol Spier) - nominated
Best Achievement in Sound (Brian Day, Joe Grimaldi) - nominated
Best Music Score (Howard Shore) - nominated
Best Performance by a Foreign Actress (Samantha Eggar) - nominated
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Bob Silverman) - nominated 1981
Catalonian International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
Prize of the International Critics' Jury: Special Mention (David Cronenberg) - winner TIMELINE
1978
November
14: Canada - shooting begins
December
21: Canada - shooting ends
1979
May
25: USA - theatrical release
June
1: Canada - theatrical release
July
18: UK - rated X by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
October
10: France - theatrical release
1980
March
14: UK - theatrical release
1986
November
13: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for video release)
1992
January
27: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for video release)
1993
June
14: UK - video release (Video Gems (R1635))
1994
July
4: UK - video deleted (Video Gems (R1635))
1997
April
17: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for video release)
1998
June
8: UK - video release (Arrow / 4 Front (0576743))
11: UK - rated 18 by the BBFC (for video release)
1999
January
1: UK - video release (Arrow (FC063))
September
20: UK - DVD release (Arrow (FCD063))
October
18: UK - video release (4 Front (0585543))
2000
September
25: UK - video deleted (4 Front (0585543 - triple pack with Rabid and
Shivers))
2005
February
25: DVD deleted (Arrow (FCD063))
28: UK - video deleted (Arrow (FC063))
July
18: UK - DVD release (Anchor Bay Entertainment (ABD4412))
POSTER TAGS The Ultimate Experience Of Inner Terror They're Waiting... For You! ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Brood, la covata malefica - Italian title
Brood - vihan jälkeläiset - Finnish title
Die Brut - German title
La clinique de la terreur - French Canadian title
Cromosoma tres - Spanish title
Cromosoma3 - Spanish title
Chromosome 3 - French title
Chromosoom 3 - Flemish Belgian title
A Ninhada - Portuguese title
Potomstwo - Polish title
LINKS SEE ALSO
Don't Look Now (1973)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
The American Nightmare (2000)
Long Live the
New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg (1987)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
REFERENCES BOOKS Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.57
credits, review Horror and Science Fiction Films II p.46
credits MAGAZINES Samhain 62 p.32
review Screen International 7 July 1979 p.7
credits Screen International 23 February 1980 p.15
credits Shivers 56 p.46
review KEYWORDS
families; psychiatrists; psychology; anger; medicine; body
horror; human experiments; mutants
Last Updated:
19 October, 2008
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