The Brood

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Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Raglan....Oliver Reed (Burnt Offerings, Severed Ties, Spasms)</B></div> <div> <B>Nola Carveth..Samantha Eggar (Curtains, Demonoid, The Uncanny)</B></div> <div> <B>Frank Carveth.Art Hindle (A Small Town in Texas,The Surrogate,Say Yes)</B></div> <div> <B>Juliana Kelly.Nuala Fitzgerald </B></div> <div> <B>Ruth Mayer....Susan Hogan (Phobia, White Fang)</B></div> <div> <B>Mike Trellan..Gary McKeenan</B></div> <div> <B>Candice.......Cindy Hinds</B></div> <div> <B>Barton Kelly..Henry Beckman (The Man Upstairs)</B></div> <div> <B>Inspector.....Michael Magee</B></div> <div> <B>Jan Hartog....Robert Silverman</B></div> <div> <B>Coroner.......Joseph Shaw</B></div> <div> <B>Lawyer........Larry Solway</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Birkin....Rainer Schwarz</B></div> <div> <B>Creature 1....Felix Silla</B></div> <div> <B>Creature 2....John Ferguson</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Pretty expensive film with professional actors. All in all a good buildup of tension--who killed granny? What did the kid see? After the initial excitement over grandma's we get a lull. Things tend to get a bit slow as emotionally crippled people start to pile up. Pretty scary dwarves. Dressing the dwarf up as a child is a nice effect because when we see all the children at school we never know when one's going to start wheezing and cackling. All in all, however, "The Brood" is a pretty brooding piece with not much entertainment value. We never get much of an idea about how Psychoplasmics has managed to generate dwarfs from Nola's diseased imagination. The effects of Psychoplasmics on Nola's body are intriguing. As is so often the case with these outer forms of psychotherapy, the patient's impression of her perceived improvement tends to be a disappointment to those around her. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: We see an intense two man role playing demonstration, in which the patient is riddled with sores, and Raglan (the director of the institute) torments him. Frank Carveth, whose was an observer, and whose wife is an inmate of the institution, realizes that his six year old daughter has been beaten, and infers that his insane wife Nola inflicted said at a visit at the "Psychoplasmics" institution. Carveth wants to stop Candy's visits to his wife, but the law believes in motherhood and it seems the visits will continue. Frank leaves Candy with the whiskey guzzling grandmother Juliana who is full of self recriminations for how Nola turned out. Back at the institute, a little play acting and it looks like grandma Jilliana is taking some heat. Still another Donahue-bound case of remembered child abuse at the suggestion of the therapist? Something has gone awry in the kitchen. Whiskey in hand, Juliana sees a home-maker's nightmare, apparently caused by no visible person. Soon the blood is flowing all too visibly. When Mr. Carveth gets the word, there are questions about Candy's taking things so coolly: she does look a bit shell shocked. We get to see more role play sessions with Nola and Raglin. Now Nola's father as well (for looking away during the beatings) comes in for some heavy weather. When grand dad Barton shows up (also a whiskey guzzler), it comes out that Juliana never had the locks changed after the divorce. Hmm. Carveth goes to see someone who has done time with Raglin in the past. He claims that Raglin caused his cancer. Psychoplasmics. Barton wants to tell Nola about the murder, but Raglin won't let him near her. That night, after any number of whiskeys, Barton calls and recruits Carveth to help force themselves in to see Nola. By the time Carveth arrives at the old house, Barton's been bludgeoned to death, and Carveth gets a glimpse of the pint sized murderer. He corners the maniacal dwarf in the bathroom. Just then, Nola calls and accuses the baby sitter of killing her family. But how is she getting tabs on what's going on. The (now deceased) thing had no belly button. How was it born? It looks like there may be more dwarf trouble when the role playing back at Psychoplasmics begins with the baby sitter-school teacher, Ruth. When Carveth arrives, Ruth bows out of what wasn't looking like a beautiful friendship. With potentially bad press, the institute looks closes down, only Nola staying. The others are packed off unceremoniously into a bus. Carveth goes and meets one such who says Nola is the "queen bee", the proof of Psychoplasmics. It looks like the sitter, Candy's school teacher, is in for a bad day in school as two unknown children show up with hammers. Another success for Psychoplasmics. The "new children" lead Candy away. The cycle of trauma in that family appears headed into another generation. Nola's had a wonderful dream about her daughter's coming back to her. When Raglin asks about Ruth, Nola oddly feels that she's no longer threatened by her. Frank heads out to the institute to see how much Nola's therapy has helped her.  </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>