The Brood (1979)

Another battle in his child custody fight with his mentally disturbed wife Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed investigates the institution where she resides when their daughter comes back from a visit covered in scratches and bruises. The child-like creatures that appear to seemingly do Eggar’s bidding are both strange and scary, selling the horror of the film. The ending is off-the-hook bizarre and repulsive, made more so when discovering that this was director David Cronenberg’s way of working through feelings over his own bitter divorce.