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"My version of Kramer vs. Kramer...only more realistic". Writer-director #DavidCronenberg exorcised the demons of his own painful divorce to create a bleak, brilliant tale of parenthood, modern psychiatry, body horror and cyclical abuse, with echoes of Forbidden Planet (1956). The gruesome, gruelling #TheBrood, with standout performances from #SamanthaEggar and #OliverReed, opened in the U.K. #OnThisDay in 1980.