"Actor: Art Hindle"

• The Brood | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £10.50   |  Saving you £6.49 (61.81%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The ultimate in inner terror! Frank Carveth is afraid. Afraid of his ex-wife's sanity fearful for the effects of her influence on their six-year-old daughter and ultimately fearful for his own life. His daughter's teacher Ruth is attacked by two misshapen children in her kindergarden class leading Carveth to unravel the connections between a series of murders his relationship with his ex-wife a radical psychotherapy cult and the mysterious Dr. Raskin. As the menace of

• The Brood | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £12.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (23.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Arguably the best and most personal of director David Cronenberg's early films, The Brood is an extremely unsettling horror film about familial disintegration and emotional trauma taken to a monstrous extreme. Art Hindle stars as a man embroiled in a bitter custody struggle with his estranged wife (Samantha Eggar), who is undergoing therapy at psychiatrist Oliver Reed's controversial institute. Reed's treatment causes his patients to give form to their inner conflicts, and Eggar--whose psyche is at the boiling point from childhood abuse as well as the custody trial--creates a horde of homicidal humanoid children who enact bloody revenge on anyone who has threatened their "mother". Cronenberg's first feature with name actors and composer Howard Shore has its share of gruesome moments, but the film's subtext--how emotional violence impacts a family--is its most chilling aspect. --Paul Gaita