The Brood

The Brood

Nola Carveth

Frank Carveth

Barton Kelly

Juliana Kelly

Candice Carveth

Ruth Mayer

Mike Trellan

Inspector

Jan Hartog (as Robert Silverman)

Coroner

Lawyer

Dr. Birkin

Creature

Creature

Chris

Wendy

Construction Worker

Man in Auditorium (as Christopher Britton)

Samson (uncredited)

David Cronenberg wrote the film following the tumultuous divorce and child-custody battle he waged against Margaret Hindson. Cronenberg also said that Samantha Eggar's character, Nola Carveth, possessed some of the characteristics of his ex-wife.

This film is one of the last mediums through which to see the interior of the old Toronto Police Headquarters on 590 Jarvis Street in Toronto, as the Headquarters was re-located to a new building in 1988 and the older building (shown in the film) was torn down to make room for condominiums in 2007.

Samantha Eggar only worked for four days on this film.

When Candy is sent away from preschool by "the creatures", she is wearing her pink snowsuit. However, when Frank drops by their home, desperately searching for his daughter, the pink snowsuit is hanging on the cloak hook at the front door. Then again, a few moments later, Candy is wearing it walking down the street with two of "the creatures".

Just after the first murder, the deformed/mutant child who committed it leaves very large, bloody handprints on the stair railing just near the dead body. These handprints are never mentioned again, in particular by the police, who insist later that they were "never looking for anything that small." It would have been impossible to miss these handprints at the crime scene, and such child-sized handprints would have certainly tipped off the police in a different direction upon discovery.

During the climactic scenes at the shed, the blood stains on the lapel of Frank's jacket disappear and reappear.

Dr. Hal Raglan: The law believes in motherhood.

Juliana Kelly: Thirty seconds after you're born you have a past and sixty seconds after that you begin to lie to yourself about it.