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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305701958 Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 6305701954 Label: Image Entertainment Manufacturer: Image Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Image Entertainment Release Date: January 25, 2000 Running Time: 84 minutes Sales Rank: 11990 Studio: Image Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 1973-03
Description: What goes on in this nursery isn't for kids! Pray you don't learn the secret of..."The Baby!" Social worker Ann Gentry (Anjanette Comer) is assigned to a new case: the Wadsworth family, which consists of an abusive, alcoholic mother (Ruth Roman), two demented and over-sexed daughters (Suzanne Zenor and Mariana Hill) and "Baby"--a grown son who lives in a crib, gurgles incoherently and is treated like an infant! As Ann slowly learns the dark secrets behind the family, she sets her sights on liberating Baby until a bizarre revelation about her own past leads to a shocking and twisted denouement. Spend some time with one of cinema's sickest families ever and rediscover a little-seen thriller that ranks as one of the most perverse and unique films of the 1970s.
Amazon.com: It's hard to even know where to start discussing The Baby, one of the weirder and more obscure pieces of '70s film flotsam to come down the line. A social worker (Anjanette Comer) is called in to investigate a family's eligibility for aid. The family members (a widow and two adult daughters) have a baby under their roof--the odd thing is, the baby appears to be 23 or so and still residing in a playpen. The social worker is soon in over her head on the case, and events begin to take on a momentum of their own. The mother (Ruth Roman) doesn't appreciate the woman's snooping and soon goes from standoffish to downright hostile. The movie's climax comes from far, far in left field; it's a real jaw-dropper for even the most jaded horror fan. Roman gives a full-throttle performance as the blowsy, cigarette-puffing mom of the twisted little nuclear family, and her two daughters are close behind, with poor Baby (who has no other name) crawling, bawling, and dirtying his diapers. The scene where the three sneak up and find a teen babysitter breastfeeding Baby (yes, really), then beat the stuffing out of her with a belt is enough to scare the bejesus out of General George Patton. The girl wasn't asked to babysit again, incidentally. TV director Ted Post gives the film a bland movie-of-the-week look which, along with its sunny California climes, somehow makes it even more unnerving. Some may find The Baby offensive, some may find it inadvertently funny, but there's no question that it's a bizarre, uncomfortable movie that's highly recommended for cult-movie aficionados and fans of the depraved. --Jerry Renshaw
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Rating: - Big Disappointment_Wah-Wah
As a fan of weird/obscure/b-movies and after reading some of the reviews here on Amazon, I was excited to watch this movie. Boy, what a disappointment. First off, the movie isn't really a horror movie. Yes this movie is weird and the plot is somewhat bizarre but it wasn't "weird" or "interesting" enough to pay around $20.00; trust me on this.
Some of the bad points of the movie were: The grown man (who actually looks a little like Keith Moon in his later years) acting like a baby was pretty lame. On top of that, there were no cool sets or visuals. The acting was horrible (and not ... Read More
Rating: - A bazare, twisted, strange film!
This well-acted film is a gothic, southern, horror psychodrama from the early 1970's.It played mainly in drive-ins across the country in the mid-seventies."Baby" is a man/child in his twenties kept in a infantile state by his twisted, husky-voiced, chain smoking mother(played perfectly by Ruth Roman) & sexy adult sisters(Suzanne Zenor & Marianna Hill). He is not allowed to walk or talk and has been kept confined in a crib his whole life. When a social worker starts investigating, the bizarre family quickly grows suspicious of her intentions. There is a reason the social worker wants "Baby" ... Read More
Rating: - 4 Stars for the Censord Version
The first time I seen this film, I caught it on the late, late show (remember those?) when I was about 11. I never forgot it, and neither will anyone else who enjoys , disdurbing movies from the early 70's.
I believe this version, which is censord, is the same one that was aired on tv many years ago. In the passed few years I bought the older uncensord version, which has more scenes and explains more of how, and why this man could never matured any further than a baby. And a somewhat important part relavent to the ending of the film.
If I never veiwed the uncensord version, ... Read More
Rating: - Twisted
If you like your cinematic excursions laugh out loud, stark raving loony, bizarrorama howl at the moon weird, you might just find something to like with Ted Post's 1972 release "The Baby." This eerie little number is to cinema what Ed Gein is to psychopathology; it's the equivalent of dancing around on your property wearing a mask made out of bacon and singing Debbie Boone songs, or papering every wall in your house with pictures of Uncle Fester. Yes, "The Baby" is that offbeat, weird, whatever label you want to stick on it that translates as "strange." After watching the final credits roll, I pondered ... Read More
Rating: - Downright disturbing
As the first editorial review of this film states, it's hard to really know where to begin discussing "The Baby." It's a disturbing film on so many levels...and all the ways in which it is disturbing coalesce to make it a really memorable thriller. In fact, this little thriller is so memorable, it may very well give you nightmares for a long time after you see it.
I first saw this film as a child, when it was on the "Million Dollar Movie" one Sunday afternoon. The whole strange story and really unexpected plot twists, as well as its dark and eerie denouement, stayed with me for 25 years till ... Read More
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