David Cronenberg’s last low-budget Canadian film before Scanners blew him up remains one of his most psychologically fraught and visceral. Good-looking blank Art Hindle tries to raise his daughter while estranged wife Samantha Eggar undergoes intensive therapy with radical psychiatrist Oliver Reed. But the subjects of her therapeutic displacement keep ending up in bloody heaps. An early cinematic take on female rage, plus Reed’s unrivaled menacing energy and a climax of icktacular proportions. -Lee Gardner
1979 Dir. David Cronenberg 1.85:1 Color DCP 92 min.
