You can't go wrong with classic Cronenberg. This one is a perfectly constructed piece of oldschool seventies horror which, albeit appearing rather dated concerning its views (or rather, the views of the time it seems to reflect) about women's mental health and their treatment, does get all the drama and atmosphere right and rightfully condemns pseudoscientific kookery in the mental health field, the depiction of which in this film looks a whole lot like dianetics to me while the themes of a consciousness being intruded upon and slowly unravelling are of course a classic cronenberg staple, running not only through his own filmography but are also front and center on his son Brandon Cronenberg's recent Sci-Fi masterpiece *Possessor*. Just as an otherworldly manifestation of mental illness appears to run in the Family depicted in *The Brood*, a preoccupation with such themes also seems to run in the Cronenberg family.