Ann Gentry is a recently widowed social worker
returning to her job. Upon coming back, her first case is the Wadsworth family.
She goes to meet them and is introduced to Mrs. Wadsworth and her two grown, peculiar daughters, Germaine and Alba. Shockingly, what has led Ann to this
family is the youngest of the family. A crawling, bottle nursing, diaper
wearing, twenty-one year old baby. Ann
makes it her mission to take the child known only as Baby out of their home.
At first, you let the movie roll and you may be
surprised at how seriously the movie takes itself. The plot sounds like an Adam
Sandler feature, but director Ted Post and writer Abe Polsky had no comedic
intentions at all. The middle of the movie tends to drag a bit, and after I
almost abandoned any hopes of significant plot development, the last twenty
minutes are when the movie does the unthinkable. It blows your mind.
I had limited expectations when watching The Baby.
As a fan of not just horror movies, but their history, I’ve been let down on
several occasions when I see a movie from yesteryear, like the 1960’s and 1970’s
because of all the hype surrounding the movie, whether it was banned from
certain countries or it was deemed a cult shocker. Most of them are primetime
dramas compared to todays over the top blood fests and demon orgies, but The
Baby was able to do what so few horror movies of any year have been able to do.
It shocked me. It might not shock you as much, and folks might and can see this
movie as being just plain stupid, but I took what was offered and it got me.
Plus, there’s a lot of nice looking women in the movie.
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