I watched ‘The Brood’ once and was bored out of my kit.  Scanners, Videodrome – all of these are slow movies, with almost silly dialogue exchanges … that are played dead straight and are, I assume, intended to be straight.  But a lot of these films at least carry that creepy feeling that moves you from one slightly surreal  scene to the next, to the inevitable mutating conclusion.  ‘The Brood’ stays pretty mundane for a while, on all accounts.  Even when we start to get pieces about what’s going on, it’s almost presented in-between the scenes, giving the feeling that we’re witnessing things after they’re occurring, which is a tension killer…

PEOPLE CALL ME AN ‘INTEREST KILLER’