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tonight's feature: The Brood (1979) on Max
(SPOILERS?) Dear lord! Another disturbingly classic Cronenberg flick, 1979's The Brood. This Canadian, Sci-Fi divorce-horror twister may keep you guessing for most of the story, but it really kicks you square in the WTF at the end. Kind of a Rosemary's Baby if Rosemary was a psychotic, angry gremlin who kept getting wet. There's some heady stuff in here too, like "Psychoplasmics" whereby patients with mental illnesses let go of their suppressed emotions through physiological changes to their bodies, which may or may not lead to terrifying and deformed, murderous dwarf-children. Also included was a scene so upsetting it had to be censored in America to get an R rating. A film so unpleasant, Roger Ebert asked "Are there really people who want to see reprehensible trash like this?" You'll never look at a skin tag the same way ever again. 8 child sized mallets out of 10.
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