Andrew Duggan, Guy Stockwell, James Dixon

It's feeding time! This enjoyable schlock centers on an all-American middle-aged couple, the Davies (John P. Ryan and Sharon Farrell), who want to have one more child in addition to their 11-year-old ...( read more  read more... )son. When the big day arrives, however, the Davies' baby turns out to be a mutated monster that kills when it's scared ... which is pretty much all the time. Think Rosemary's Baby but more graphically gruesome (and funny!).

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PG, 91 min.

Directed by: Larry Cohen

Release Date: December 31, 1973

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DVD Release Date: October 5, 2004

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  • October 2, 2008
    This had the best PR and ad campaign. No big names, but it did well enough to garner two sequels. That's marketing friends!
  • July 19, 2007
    It has its good moments, but gets murky when the police go hunting the monster-baby down in the sewers. They try to make it scarier by only offering brief glimpses of the creature. It's actually better than "Rosemary's Baby" in showing what a demon baby can do. It has somewhat ch...( read more)eap production values, but there are some suspenseful sequences.
  • January 3, 2007
    Corny? Yes. Entertaining? Absolutely!
  • September 14, 2006
    Fun horror nonsense from Cohen.
  • September 17, 2009
    The special effects were decent enough for a low-budget film. Fine performances and a chilling score.
    Not a bad flix but my problem with this movie is that it suffers from pacing issues and even at 90 minutes it feels too long.
  • November 23, 2009
    An under-rated, extremly odd and sometimes quite silly 70's horror filck. Gets a lot of criticism for being very silly, or if not that, is often filed in the "So bad it's good" category because of it, but I beg to differ. It is not actually too silly, and has some moments ...( read more)of genuine chills and an unexpected emotional climax.

    To be honest, the only silly thing is the idea, and even then you can gleefully imerse yourself in that.

    The best part of this is not the performances, not the directing, not the screenplay but the score. Watching the titles credits at the start, I was even more excited about the film when I saw Bernard Hermann's name come up. His moody pieces always suit the film and are all beautiful pieces of music, that also incite dread. This score is no exception.

    The performances aren't as over the top as you would of first anticipate, but maybe that was for the best. Andrew Duggan as the baby's father is surprisinly good, especially at the climax. Although the other performances may not be exactly noteworthy, they are more than good and neither make the film worse, nor better.

    I thought Larry Cohen directed this rather well. He creates an atmosphere which is hard to match and really holds back on the stupidity, stopping it from becoming an awful comedy horror like it could have turned out to be. No. There isn't really any comedy in it, if that is what you are expecting. All for the best, really.

    So for an atmospheric, surprisingly good, horror, and aren't expecting a genre defining film (and you shouldn't) then this is actually worth a go. If ever a film deserves more praise than it gets, it is this one.
  • September 16, 2009
    ahhhhhhhh 70's babies are cool too.
  • August 11, 2009
    seen the gist of it.
  • March 22, 2009
    Saw it 'first run' in the late '70's. It scared the heck out of me!
  • March 18, 2009
    wow what a cult movie..i have just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch..its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie...i think that john ryan, sharon farrell, guy stockwell, john P. ryan play good parts throughout this movie....( read more)..i think that the director of this Horror, Classics movie had done a great job of directing this movie as u never know what 2 expect throughout this movie..its a good 1970's Horror, Classics movie 2 watch

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