The Brood | 100 Movies Bucket List

 

I hadn't heard of this one, so it was fun to go in completely blind.

I have mixed feelings about the film.

It starts from a confusing place, particularly going in blind. It's fun to try and work out what's going on before things really get going.

It took me longer to get into than I would have liked. The story starts slowly, and even when things start happening, they happen slowly. Which isn't to say that I lost interest in the film, but I wasn't as invested in the characters as I would have liked to be.

At 30 minutes in it's been drip-feeding the audience ideas without exploring anything too deeply or drawing any conclusions. While this does a good job of sparking intrigue in the rest of the film, it doesn't engage the viewer as much as it needs to.

There are a lot of characters that only have a few minutes of screen time each and it can be hard to keep them all straight.

The cast is great, particularly Art Hindle, who easily evokes sympathy from the audience. You're on his side almost immediately.

The best thing about this film is when it goes into full-on classic horror. The mystery, the death scenes, all of that is done really well and keeps you watching. For me, when it goes more into sci-fi than horror is when it starts to lose me.

Not much happened in the film. We're given these ideas, we have a couple of death scenes, some interesting characters, but in terms of the actual plot, there's not much to go on until near the end.

The explanation is actually really interesting - it would have been great for it to come up earlier, so more could be explored with it. As it was, there wasn't enough time to get too deeply into the creation of the brood, which was a shame.

But overall there were some great things about this movie. I didn't love it from beginning to end, but I did like what it ended up being.