# The Brood (1979): Government Subsized Cinematic Birth Control

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Podcast: [Morally Offensive](https://stenobird.com/podcast/morally-offensive-7096551)
Published: 2025-09-19T03:49:01+00:00
Episode link: https://www.morallyoffensive.com/e/the_brood_david_cronenberg/
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## Resource

This week, Bill and Stephanie drag Atlanta filmmaker Nicole Kemper into the delivery room to talk David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979), a horror movie which doubles as the world’s worst sex-ed film. We’re talking cinematic birth control, belly-buttonless mutant murder children, slutty vintage men’s bathrobes, and why men are absolutely terrified of the female body. Diversions include Oliver Reed’s drunken shenanigans, an attempted cult kidnapping, the Canadian public’s outrage over finding out their tax dollars were financing gorey art, and, of course, we read another Catholic review which completely disregards the artistic merits and possibilities of the horror genre. This is definitely an episode to listen to if you’re still comtemplating bringing children into a violent world which is on fire. For us, the Brood proved to be far more effective than abstinence-only sex education.

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