David Cronenberg directs Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle in this aggressive psychological therapy produces mutant rage children slasher.

As a freshman hypothesis of Cronenberg’s concerns (destruction of the family, the horrific cost of sex, physical manifestation of spiritual traumas as boils and sores, womb sacs ) there’s much for scholars to read into. Get yer dissertations ‘ere! As a horror film it is dull and duff, a waste of popcorn. Reed and Eggar’s scenes of role play therapy are better than Hindle’s directionless investigation. Only an attack in a nursery classroom, with playfully transgressive believable reaction shots from the kids, transcends the pretentious and the lack of incident.

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