 Hey, you want to watch a Canadian horror movie for Canada Day? Where's the beer? I forgot to make a special batch for Canada Day, but I did get a couple of beers from the liquor store. Better be Canadian. Oh It's Canadian. Oh and welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies and happy Canada Day to everybody out there. Canadians and non-Canadians alike. That's right. Before we get started seeing as how you up damn near killed me What are we drinking Lord summer Isles smoked ale today? We're gonna bring to you 1979's the brood we had already covered this once top 10 Canadian horror movies You can click the link above to watch that one, but we felt this one needed more. Yeah, it's such a deep movie It needs its own review just to do a little couple of minutes on it This doesn't do it justice at all. This one was directed by Canadian legend David Cronenberg Did movies such as rabid and shivers before this this movie really kind of put him on the map It still doesn't get talked about as much as like the flying But this is kind of his first masterpiece this movie stars our favorite piss tank of all time Oliver Reed he was in of course venom which we just covered yeah and burnt offerings Which we've covered as well Samantha Eggers in this and she's in another Canadian Horror movie called curtains art Hindall is also in this and he's in another Canadian movie perhaps one of the most famous and Groundbreaking ones black Christmas. So this movie starts off with some second a session who's talking to you now Wearing these karate robes for some reason this guy that dr. Raglan is treating full of all these like Boils and everything and I like all these marks. We also learned that dr. Raglan is specifying in psychoplasmics a certain form of therapy the patients Manifest their problems physically, but it's supposed to cure their mental problems. Is it worth it though? Yeah, you don't know we get introduced to Frank he goes and gets his daughter from Raglan She's been spending the weekend there. He's treating the mother and she was visiting the mother He's in the tub like bathing her and he sees marks on her body He goes back to Raglan's house and he starts giving him shit Dr. Raglan says that Candice has been spending the whole weekend with her mother Conveniently she can't be seen if he lets her out of isolation right now It's gonna upset the whole thing right he threatens with the lawyer and the lawsuit Stop the mother from seeing Candice because he thinks that the mother is abusing Candice His lawyer tells him well, there's not much we can do unless you can somehow Discredit Raglan and his work so Frank's got to go to work and he leaves his daughter with the grandmother She's all drinking and everything too Has a big tall glass of whiskey to refresh my drink So the grandma goes to investigate this noise in the kitchen There's this kind of weird creature crouched up in the cupboards jumps and attacks her grabs Is like a meek tenderizing mallet and beats the grandma to death Candice walks in and just sees his dead grandmother there hearing through the little bars and the stairs is his creature And as quickly disappears a day Frank gets a call at work saying well who got it come to the hospital something happened Finds out that his mother-in-law was killed and the Candice was found just sleeping upstairs Undisturbed so Frank goes to see one of Dr. Raglan's former patients doing all these Workouts everything god damn Son of a bitch the comb over to yeah, you see and he's got a big towel around his neck Raglan was treating him with Psychoplasmics he ended up getting a form of cancer lymphoma He also has a lawsuit against Raglan because he thinks that he caused that with his psychoplasmics Candice's grandparents are divorced and the grandpa lives elsewhere So he calls the grandpa telling him what happened. He flies in so he goes to Raglan and Raglan turns him down No, you can't see her. He's all drink The grandpa goes back to his old house where the grandma was found dead plus into the booze heavy Staring down over the bodies taped off and so he calls Frank. Let's go get the sons of bitches Well Frank's having a date with Candice's school teacher leaves the school teacher take care of candy And he goes to go stop the grandpa from doing something stupid one of these Creatures from before is still in the house or has gotten back into the house and attacks the grandpa and takes a snow globe type thing It fucking beats him over the head Frank gets there and he sees all this happening and he gets attacked too the creature just kind of stops Plays down and stops breathing and just dies they take the creature to the corner It's got no clue what this is. He says it's got no gender and it also doesn't have a belly button So this wasn't birthed in a normal way. So Candice is at school You see these two little children maybe show up in these snow suits Corner Candice in the school room. They want to take her with them. They attack the teacher jump on her back And like you think that maybe she can fight them off, but no they beat her to death with one of these little toy hammers Yeah, just super bloody and the kids are just These two creatures take Candice and you see him walking down this highway together all three of them That's we're gonna end the plot because if you haven't seen the brood We'll keep watching the movie to find out what happens cuz a lot gets unveiled Why should you watch the brood the story and the premise are the hallmark of this movie It's so original. There's no movie like it out there at all. Subject matter is so deep and there's so much of it There's like so many different themes happening all at once in this movie. They're all intertwined Serious subject matter to parents having problems, right? Divorced parents. That's one issue going on here custody battles Yeah, the child is the focal point of everything and seeing what's going on stuck in the middle people are going to Therapy because of all of this. They don't quite know how to deal with it So it's manifesting itself in certain ways and does the therapy work. Is it real? Is it all just a bunch of bullshit? You know, this is the days of this all these tacky fake therapy happening ravine hypnotizing people because it's kind of a commentary on that and you don't really know like is this Cycloplasmics Real or working or what Raglan has a whole camp of people that he's treating that believe in all of this But then there's these outliers that think he's a fucking fraud and only some of his patients are Getting these boils and manifesting the stuff Physically, is he actually doing that or they already kind of predisposed to do it the surrounding mystery of Pretty much the entire premise of the movie is awesome because you don't know what the hell's going on until the very end And then the whole movie makes sense to you and then you got to watch it a second time to catch all the things You missed the first time exactly you do have to watch this movie at least twice I think to catch everything mental health and mental health problems It's not just this thing in your head that does manifest itself physically in some ways in this movie It's with boils or whatever or the brood in real life people's Health deteriorate because of mental health problems, right? Yeah, yeah Kind of deals with that as well and it doesn't just affect the person affects everyone around them And it also kind of deals with sins of the parents being visited upon their children I can't be like my parents and it affects Candice in certain ways, too She kind of shuts down which is interesting. It's kind of scary. Why is she so quiet? Why doesn't she not react to seeing the grandma dead the tone of this movie is very good, too? The actors Feel like real people and the fact of this movie doesn't have a super glossy look to it Doesn't have that Hollywood big-budget look Helps it seem more real and realistic and you do feel like that you're kind of there with these people because All these settings you did even though they're super 70s Decor and everything you feel like you've been there unlike a lot of Canadian movies It doesn't hide the fact it's from Canada they walk out of the police station. It says right there Toronto police They mentioned the grandpa's and Halifax don't see cars going by with like US plates on them Like they do in a lot of movies American flags like on the desks and stuff like in black Christmas The music for this movie is so damn good composed by Howard shore It was one of his first movies done so much since then, you know, he's pretty much done every Cronenberg movie Yeah, you know, he did Lord of the Rings, which was a big fucking movie And then he even did like more comedic stuff like Mrs. Doubtfire like this movie, which is a very haunting score with the Strings just cut the violin and everything and it just cuts through you But it works like as you're like it hits you, right? Yeah, it's you're uneasy. Yeah, the movies pretty drab It's always cloudy out It's always kind of grayish and yeah the music fits that exactly. Yeah, the movies paste very well It's very tight every scene is poignant and it serves a purpose and it's done intentionally typical hour and a half movie And it seems like an hour It's just done because it's paced so well it just flies by always wanting to see what's gonna happen next with the way The movie sort of unfolds right the way it's edited and cut to is great Like there's a great scene where candy and the grandma are going through the pictures and like oh why is mommy in the hospital? And then at the same time Raglan is doing therapy session with Nola Who's also explaining why she was in the hospital and they're two different explanations Yeah, which is interesting and the way it's edited together it flops between both scenes and you get two perspectives It's almost like Palma's split-screen. Yeah shit that he always uses this works much better The acting in this of course is superb. You have Oliver Reed, which is just a master. He can do anything. He's a wild one Drunk or not he can do it gives a lot of clout to this movie, too You know, it's probably Cronenberg's first movie where he's got a well-known actors in it and it helps, right? Yeah, it's kind of like the Loomis to the Halloween sort of exactly. That's exactly what it is Samantha Egger was also a really known British actress and she's really good art. Hindle is really good, too So you have three kind of main leads which really hold it all together Roger Ebert actually gave this movie thumbs down right calling it a bore and disgusting It's like what the fuck do you know or this movie's anything but boring tons happening tons of subject matter a bore I don't think so. What the hell movie did you watch and you know what Ciskel and Ebert? You're dead So who cares I'm not gonna say it again And the effects are great in this movie and that goes along with the kills, too, right? The kills in this movie are awesome because the brood they're such little Bastards and they just use brood force. It just seems like one of them can overpower a strong adult Yeah, which is very cool. Hey, that's awesome the brood themselves. Look fucking creepy I'm sure at the time in this movie came out and all the kids were wearing the That's no suit like after you saw the brood and then you went out and saw these kids walking around the snow suits like That's the brood there Beating up these kids thinking they're the brood. So yeah, if you haven't seen the brood definitely watch it Canada Day would be a great day to watch the brood because it's a great Canadian horror movie probably one of the best Yep, I'd agree Cronenberg's first real real solid movie And it's got so much to say because Cronenberg wrote this after a divorce with his wife And it was kind of his therapy and this is a movie about therapy and divorce and all that kind of stuff So it all just works so well. Yep, exactly. And until next time Keep drinking