David Croenenberg’s horror pic from his pre-respectable days wants to thrill us, gross us out & make us think twice, but you don’t get points for effort. The plot involves little unisex demons who turn out to be the pure (and puerile) sterile bred "Ids" of psycho patient Samantha Eggar, who’s very good under the circumstances. When her zombie brood turns deadly and puts her own parents & child in jeopardy (why it’s the whole Freudian gestalt!), her estranged hubby and Oliver Reed’s guru shrink must save the day. At the time, Croenenberg hadn’t the technique to make this much more than a training exercise with a couple of scary notes & ditto yucky climaxes. And composer Howard Shore had the amazingly original idea of using a strings-only chamber orchestra in scoring a horror pic. Gosh! How’d he ever think that one up?
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