The Brood

Psychotherapist Hal Raglan runs Somafree Institute where he performs a technique called "psychoplasmics" Nola Carveth is a severely disturbed woman who is legally embattled with her husband for custody of their five-year-old daughter. Nola's rage about her abuse was so strong that she parthenogenetically bore a brood of children who psychically respond and act on the targets of her rage, with Nola completely unaware of their actions. The dwarf children attack and kill Ruth in front of her class, and abscond with Candice with her daughter. The brood awakens and kills Rag