https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/2009/07/15/feed/Star And Shadow Events 2009-07-15 to 2009-07-15en-gbSat, 15 Sep 2018 22:33:40 -0000https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/447Oliver Reed (!!) stars as an unconventional therapist who encourages Samantha Eggar to undergo “psychoplasmic” therapy – whereby mental and emotional trauma takes physical form – and produces scores of deformed, murderous children who prey upon her young (human) daughter. Made after a difficult custody battle between Cronenberg and his former wife, The Brood is perhaps the director’s most cathartic and autobiographical film.https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/on/film/447