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The Brood
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2888
- IMDb #2743
- Rotten Tomatoes #1990
- Metacritic #2722
- Letterboxd #1860
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1694
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2770
- Metacritic Audience #3627
- Criticker #1314
- Kinopoisk #3663
- AlloCiné #2977
- Trakt #3642
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 54, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A man becomes concerned about the strange injuries his young daughter is receiving after visits with her mother, who is undergoing an experimental form of psychotherapy. The therapy involves the patient physically manifesting their psychological trauma. He investigates the controversial psychiatrist's methods and discovers a horrifying connection between his wife's rage and a group of vicious, child-like creatures that are attacking people connected to her.
Details
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Writer
- David Cronenberg
- Released
- 25 May 1979
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.4M
- Box office
- $5.0M
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