The Baby Movie Download

3 / 10

Even polished trash remains schlock.
I found myself holding my head from shaking too much in fear it might fall off after seeing what this disturbing film was all about. no matter how polished it is, it’s nothing more than a higher budgeted version of a John Waters movie, and I could easily picture individual cast members from water stock company in the roles in this film.

With a smoky voice and an unforgettably commanding presence, Ruth Roman reminds me of an older Suzanne Pleshette here, and her character is quite the most demented Mommy Dearest outside of a John Waters movie. She’s the mother of two daughters and a 21 year old son who cries like a baby, wears diapers and sleeps in a crib. Marianna Hill and Suzanne Zenor are her two equally demented daughters, and David Mooney is the infantile titled baby, creepy in every way and uncomfortable to watch.

The real star is Anjanette Comer, a social worker troubled in her personal life who takes an interest in the string circumstances and after being drugged by Roman and her daughters kidnapped baby and takes him home to her own mother. it becomes a battle of wills between her and the crazy family as they try to get baby back, and this leads to a last half hour is that takes 1970’s hag horror films schlock into a new direction.

What is really disturbing about this film is that someone could actually sit down and write this story let alone turn it into a 90-minute movie script. The 1973 annual “Screen World” designated one small paragraph in it’s “also released” section, a category left for films of such embarrassing low-quality that the publishers didn’t even want to acknowledge that these films existed.

This is Roman’s entry into the “hag horror” playing a character so vile and unlikable that it’s an embarrassment to see the veteran film noir femme fatale stooping to such levels to get an acting job. I could easily see Divine playing this role and making a hoot out of it, but unfortunately, this film is just simple bad taste, leaving out the camp element that would have made it laughably fun. Her daughters in the film seemed like rejects from the Manson gang and have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Comer tries her best to be the one sane presence in the film, but when you’ve got to strip like this, sanity is nowhere in the vocabulary.Read More