The Brood

Screening as part of The Divorced Women’s Film Festival curated by writer Haley Mlotek for the release of her new memoir “No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce”.

The screening will be introduced by Haley Mlotek and a special guest. 

“Most movies about custody and divorce focus on the emotional horror, for good reason—it can, of course, be an intense and traumatic experience for all involved—but David Cronenberg took it one step further by incorporating his particularly vicious kind of body horror. Apparently he wrote it after finding Kramer vs. Kramer too ‘optimistic,’ and the last time I tried to rewatch it I had to stop it multiple times just to steel myself against the gore; so, consider yourself warned.” —Haley Mlotek

A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two story lines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood from David Cronenberg, starring Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar. With its combination of psychological and body horror, The Brood laid the groundwork for many of the director’s films to come, but it stands on its own as a personal, singularly scary vision.

Read more about NO FAULT here. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Haley Mlotek is a writer, editor, and organizer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Nation, Bookforum, The Paris Review, Columbia Journalism Review, Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Hazlitt, and n+1, among others. She is a founding member of the Freelance Solidarity Project in the National Writers Union, teaches in the English and Journalism departments at Concordia University, and is the editorial lead at Feeld. Previously, Mlotek was the deputy editor of SSENSE, the style editor of MTV News, the editor of The Hairpin, and the publisher of WORN Fashion Journal.