The Bloody Brood

The Bloody Brood (1959)

Your shocked eyes will see it... your stunned mind won't believe it... Never before... has vice and violence struck with such frightening force!

Nico, a drug dealer, murders a telegram messenger-boy "for kicks", egged on by partner-in-crime, TV director Francis. Cliff, the boy's older brother, investigates his death due to the slow progress made by the police.

Date of release
1959-10-26
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Director
Julian Roffman

Casting

Interesting facts

The Bloody Brood is a 1959 Canadian thriller film directed by Julian Roffman.

Production

Julian Roffman and Ralph Foster formed Meridian Films in 1954, and Roffman chose to direct its first feature film, The Bloody Brood. The film was shot over the course of sixteen days in May 1959, on a budget of $87,000-90,000, with financial backing from Roffman and Nat Taylor. It was made as the top picture for a double feature. Taylor's wife, Yvonne, was an associated producer. Roffman and Taylor later worked together on The Mask.

The production interiors were lensed at the Community Theatre, on Woodbine Avenue, in Toronto, a cinema that had been earlier retrofitted for use as a TV studio after 1955. Ralph Foster and Julian Roffman founded Meridian Studios in 1954.

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