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The Brood (1979, Canada)
In writer/director David Cronenberg's horror classic:
- the therapeutic treatment termed psychoplasmics in
the Somafree Institute of controversial psychotherapist Dr. Hal
Raglan (Oliver Reed), and his treatment of a self-obsessed, disturbed,
psychotic patient named Nola Carveth (Samantha Eggar)
- the vengeful mutant dwarf-like children (the brood)
- offspring of Nola Carveth - who would murderously attack and psychically
respond to Nola's anger
- the mutants' murder of Institute teacher Ruth Mayer
(Susan Hogan) in front of her class
- the hideous scene of Nola ripping open her own uterus
(baby or egg sac) from an external psycho-plasmically induced womb
(kept sitting on her lap) and then licking the bloody afterbirth
off of her own monstrous, hideous demon-creature-baby
Nola Eating Her Own Creature-Baby's Afterbirth
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- Nola's ex-husband Frank's (Art Hindle) final deadly
confrontation with his ex-wife Nola after she gave birth, and her
strangulation by Frank
- the broods' attack of Raglan - killing him, and of
Nola's pale, terrified and catatonic five-year old daughter Candice
Carveth (Cindy Hinds) as she hid in a closet - they broke through
the door behind her. With the death of their psychic mother, however,
the brood died off and Candice was saved
- the last ominous image of the film - a close-up sight
of a raised, red sore (or wheal) growing on Candice's arm as Frank
drove away with her - she had undoubtedly inherited her mother's
cursed abilities to manifest the pain inside of her
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The Bloody Murder of Raglan by the Brood
The Brood's Attempt to Kill Candice in a Closet
Strangulation of Nola
Sores or Bumps (Wheals) on Candice's Arm
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