10 Near Perfect Horror Movies Nobody Remembers
3. The Brood
You can look at the likes of The Prestige by Christopher Nolan, Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by David Fincher as examples of outstanding films that are too often unfairly overshadowed and forgotten about, thanks to the sheer brilliance of the respective directors' filmography.
The same could be said about The Brood. It's not necessarily the first movie that comes to mind when thinking of David Cronenberg, with that title typically going to the likes of The Fly or The Dead Zone, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a stellar effort.
The story was written rather self-reflectively by Cronenberg after going through a divorce, allowing it to go much deeper and more personal than some of his other works. The Fly is a surprisingly character-driven body horror film, as is The Brood, thanks to its deep roots in a dark time of reality.
As well as being overshadowed by other Cronenberg features - releasing in the same 11-year period as seven other projects from the director - and the fact that it bore certain similarities to It's Alive from five years earlier, The Brood too often falls into obscurity when truly it is a fine piece of work from a master of his craft.