Mother's Day
'The Brood' (1979) interrogates motherhood with a fine tooth comb. Nola is locked away at an experimental psychiatric facility with the radical Dr. Hal Raglan. She is his star patient. A kind of Frankenstein monster, Nola acts as an expression of his practice, his theories, his results, and his narcissism. He encourages Nola to turn her thoughts to flesh and release them. All of her anger and frustration manifests into the one thing her life revolves around: birth. Nola births her rage into an army of tiny creatures hell bent on avenging all the wrongs against mom.