The Brood 4K 1979 Ultra HD 2160p

Frank Carveth is concerned for his young daughter. When he brings Candice home for the weekend from the psychoplasmic institute where her mother Nola is being treated, he discovers wounds on the girl's body. He takes Candice to Nola's mother, but a strange small creature kills her, and the girl is found asleep and remembering nothing.

After another murder, the police manage to get a copy of the mysterious killer. By his appearance it becomes clear that he is of artificial origin. So what does Dr. Raglan do to people?

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Cronenberg is the visualized odopisator of the “literalistically perverted fuck” (a new mutagenic sexuality caused by the altered anthropological relationship between man and technology), the “talking meat” (a new technogenic corporeality associated with the loss of human anatomical integrity), and the “gagging human organics” (i.e. the unfolding expansion of autonomous flesh). In the ancient Greek binarism of “sarx” and “soma” (the Russian translation of “body” and ‘flesh’ does not convey the necessary semantic distinction), the great Canadian filmmaker is a strict admirer of the crude, naturalistic, over-materialized Body (“sarx”). He has no gnostic sarcasm or squeamishness in his treatment of the angry Character, “a body squabbling with organs.” On the contrary, mixed feelings of fear and interest in the grumpy, independent, decolonized (freed from the bonds of an all-encompassing mind) flesh surface. The latter exists beyond the control of everyday reason (or modern logocentrism). One senses here a certain perfected intellectualized version of the zombie theme. The supremacy of postmodern intuitions, where the components of the once integral human organism suddenly sounded apart, creating a nightmarish cacophony. The bodily organs began to fly apart and crawl away in different directions, demonstrating a resilient autarky. And this is more of an “organs without bodies” situation! Local decolonization, complete severance of ties with the “centering” CNS and a frightening picture of primitive behaviorist existence “stimulus-reaction”. A private revolution in the body: the aphidron attempted to free itself from the dictatorial regime of the brain, in a spontaneous impulse shaking the neighboring parts of the Body to emancipatory rebellion.

The Body naturally rebels in opposition to its master - like the evangelical healed maiden, like the proletarian awakened from petty-bourgeois anabiosis, like a driven and angered beast. For example, in “The Brood” (1979), elements of psychopathology break through, clearly demonstrating the disgusting inner state of the patients: “It” rebels against the “I” and this localized putsch can no longer be stopped by the seemingly authoritative master. In Cronenberg's films, the classic paradox that we possess a body and are identical to the body at the same time is severely cut short by the New Age's domination of the unconscious and the materialized. In Cronenberg's films, the body has a double or triple degree of materiality: the first level is the normalized existence of the body, without frills, exceptions, deformities, or any other epathetic husks; the next levels offer a wide range of bodily symptoms, from infected organs performing murderous motions to apocalyptic machine-human symbioses.

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (84.6 Mb/s)
Resolution: 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

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