David Cronenberg's The brood / Janus Films ; Pierre David and Victor Solnicki present ; executive producers, Victor Solnicki and Pierre David for Mutual Productions and Elgin International ; produced by Claude Heroux ; written and directed by David Cronenberg.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
2 videodiscs (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert
DVD release of the 1979 motion picture. Widescreen (1.78:1). Special features: Disc 1: Radio spot. Disc 2: Birth pains (2015 documentary, actor Samantha Eggar, executive producer Pierre David, cinematographer Mark Irwin, assistant director, John Board, and special makeup effects artists Rick Baker and Joe Blasco discuss director David Cronenberg's early work and the making of the film); Oliver Reed (episode of the Merv Griffin Show from April 25, 1980, features actor Oliver Reed along with director Orson Welles and entertainer Charo); Meet the Carveths (2013 interview, Fangoria editor in chief Chris Alexander talks to actors Art Hindle and Cindy Hinds about the film); Crimes of the future: Crimes of the future (1970 ; 63 min.), Cronenberg: the early years (2011 interview, conducted by Fangoria editor in chief Chris Alexander, in which the director discusses his transition in filmmaking ; 13 min.). Insert includes an essay by critic Carrie Rickey. Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Nuala Fitzgerald, Susan Hogan, Gary McKeehan, Cindy Hinds, Henry Beckman. Crimes of the future: Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty, Paul Mulholland, Jack Messinger, Iain Ewing, William Haslam, Ray Woodley, Stefen Czerniecki, Rafe Macpherson, Willem Poolman, Don Owen, Udo Kasemets, Bruce Martin, Brian Linehan, Leland Richard, Stephen Zeifman, Norman Snider, William Wine, Kaspars Dzeguze, Sheldon Cohen, George Gibbins.
Contents:
Crimes of the future / Emergent Films presents a film by David Cronenberg ; written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg -- Cronenberg: the early years / a Severin Films presentation for Second Sight Films.
Summary:
A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
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