31 Days of Halloween: Day 27 (and READER'S CHOICE)

Day 27

The Brood (1979)

This was a slow movie, but it had its interesting moments. Honestly, I had high hopes for this one from the description as well as the music playing on the menu page of the DVD. I unfortunately was a bit disappointed.

The father of a little girl (ps, he was in Invasion of the Body Snatchers as well) is tired of bring her to see her mother. Her mother is being treated for some psychological disorder that is keeping her in isolation. I will preface that having seen the full movie, she needs to be in isolation. Anyway, having seen his daughter's back (which is bruised and scratched) he says he would no longer bring her back to the institution for visitations.

And this is when all hell breaks loose.

The doctor treating dear mommy is trying to get her to release her rage, not knowing that she is creating a brood of demonic children. The children then get out and kill who ever the rage is directed at (the grandmother, the grandfather, the school teacher). They kill in a very simple, but effective way: bludgeoning them to death.

The school teacher's death is pretty cool...as its in front of the children. Nuts.

It all culminates in having to face the brood and the mother head on in the institution. There is a rather disturbing scene when the mother 'gives birth' to the latest brood member and her clean-up method is just wrong for a human. Ick.

Anyway, it wasn't the greatest movie ever, but I give it points for creativity and the disturbing factor.


Now, Friday, I will not be able to watch a movie, so I'm giving the readers a choice on the double feature that I will watch on Saturday. You get to choose one of three movies and I have already picked the second movie of the day, found at the bottom of the blog. Your choices are:


Interview With A Vampire (1994) - next to Dracula, one of the most classic vampire movie/book ever.



In The Mouth of Madness (1994) - an investigator hired to find a missing horror writer tracks him down to a New England town filled with nightmare scenes right from the author's books!

Let Me In (2010) - the American adaptation of the Swedish vampire film about a vampire girl who befriends a human boy.





Then later on Saturday...

28 Days Later (2002)