 Thanks for checking out this movie review. This is for the 1973 film The Baby and This is a doozy First thing you just want to let people know up front. There will be spoilers for this. It's an older movie This that's what I'm doing. There will be spoilers So I would say My quick recommendation if you like movies that are not good, but are kind of crazy wacky nutty And are kind of like what am I watching? What the hell by the end? Turn around go watch it then come back and watch the remainder of this video because lots of spoilers It's something Anyway, so it's actually fitting because I was watching this at night and then I was like I'll just record the review of it another day like the next day or whatever. I was just like no You know what now's the time now that it's fresh on my mind. I can give the best reaction possible to this because Okay So it's fitting. I'm actually wearing my pajamas and this is The Baby. Obviously. It's about a giant man, baby This guy who's basically kept as a as a infant by his mother and sisters And there's all sorts of other wacky stuff But we'll talk more about that as we go on this is currently streaming on shutter when this review is going up So you can check it out there It's weird because the the film feels like it's not horror until like the very very end I mean, it's wacky and weird and to some people just the premise of the whole man baby thing is kind of horrific But that's not really horror in my opinion. It's just kind of like odd and uncomfortable But the actual horror stuff comes at the end. So I'm like, okay, there it is So let's talk about some background stuff on this not a whole lot I was directed by a man named Ted post now I can't really figure out why Ted post took this job unless he was offered a lot of money or he was connected with someone who Wanted this film made I don't know Because this guy actually had directed a lot of TV and directed some movies, too He had a lot of directing credits on IMDB. So he did he did a bunch of stuff He did the film beneath the planet of the apes He did 56 episodes of the show Gunsmoke and he did 24 episodes of the show Rawhide and he even did four episodes of The Twilight Zone so this guy like had a pedigree like he could direct and you can see it in this film Like there's legitimately good directing in this film. It's just It's a nutty film like the script is insane. Who greenlit this stuff. Well, I guess I understand Like it was produced by the guy who wrote it and someone else with the same last name So I assume as a family member. So I assume the guy who wrote it had the money and was like I wrote this script I've got all this money. We need to make this crazy film and this Ted post guy was just like I like money Let's do it. You know, like that's my best Interpretation of probably what happened So I was written by a man named Abe Polsky and other than that he did not write a whole lot I think you wrote like a TV episode of something here or there, but not much So it came out Obviously it came out in 1973 and then it came out on VHS and DVD in 2000 Yeah, VHS VHS was still being made in 2000. That's a weird thing that popped up for me I was like really we're still doing VHS in 2000 and I was really thought about it I'm like, yep, that's correct because I do remember still buying VHS at that point And then in 2011 it came out in DVD again and Blu-ray this time through Severin films Now Severin has a lot of fun stuff. That's where I done a review for the Blu-ray They put out of Invasion of the Blood Farmers, which is another movie. It's just like it's it's a terrible movie But it's like fun terrible and the baby is kind of that way in my opinion I don't know if this has rewatch value to me unless I'm showing it to another person and being like watch this wacky thing You'll never believe it But other than that I don't think I'm gonna like rewatch it by myself or anything But I'm glad I saw it because it's it's nuts and I can tell people about it Okay, so the beginning of this with the photos already feels weird Like the way that Anne's character is like looking at these photos and her mother is like kind of hanging over her And looking at these photos you get the sense that there's something very off about that scene But it doesn't really start to click until much later in the film Well, like when the kidnapping actually happens and then you know babies being don't even have a name Babies being kept at Anne's house and you're just kind of like there's something else going on here And then you start thinking back to the weird photo thing and you're like There is something else going on here and then you find out in the end there is something else going on here And it's wacky, but anyway, we'll talk about that a little bit later So it's odd that this social worker was so interested in feeding the baby The man baby like that that's your first indicator with this film Well, okay beyond the photo thing because that you know that could be anything to be honest That could just be an awkwardly set-up scene, but her enthusiasm with wanting to meet the baby and feed the baby is like That's your biggest indicator there. You're just like this woman's not Right, like there's something else going on here Nobody would be that excited to meet a man baby and then even more so Feed the man baby like maybe meet the man baby to just be like is this a real thing I need to find this out and then meet them and be like, yep, that's a thing Well, I'm gonna go tell people I know Not like oh now let me feed the man baby. So it's just like it's weird, man As soon as it said one of the previous workers disappeared you feel like oh my gosh, something's up but that ends up actually not turning into anything really because It's good though because putting that in there like gives you the sense that like Oh this family really didn't want people to get too close to the baby and you see that with how the mom reacts with Ann and So you just get this feeling like they're overly protective And it's because they would murder people and they kind of like show that intent a little bit when they Tie up Ann and leave her in the basement. So like maybe they would have killed and I don't know We don't know but it is kind of a good like red herring in the beginning when they're kind of like Oh, this one social worker just disappeared because then it makes you think yep the family murdered her But then we don't come back to it. So I mean maybe that happened, but maybe very well may not have happened. We don't know So one of the things that occurred me is the guy who played a baby his name is David Mooney. Yeah, the guy who played baby First of all, I don't know how you audition for that Second of all, I don't know why you would audition for that Third of all, I don't know how you get work after that fourth of all, I Think he did a good job for what the role was To be honest like really think about what he had to do and what the role specifications probably were and he I think he Did a good job. It seems weird to say but he did a good job of I just I don't think I could do that like not that I wouldn't have the chops Necessarily is what I'm saying. It's just like I just I wouldn't want to have to be a lot of money involved, but Yeah, so I don't know like this this movie kind of like throws me off from time to time But the way he plays with things in this he's like he is like a dog Like there's a lot of things it's like dog like the way he plays with things And then at the one point when Anne's trying to like get him out of the house after she been tied up And she's like leading him by like the collar of his shirt and you're just like Yeah, like a dog again, and he's just like crawling around. It's it's crazy The scene with the babysitter giving into the baby and feeding him Was totally out of nowhere It's I mean for the character like the babysitter With with the short hair like towards the beginning where she where he like tried to like start suckling Sucking on her boob, and she was just like no no baby. No, and then she's just like Okay, and you're just like Wait what? Like no no no no no no no no no no no At no point, did it seem like she would even be close to open to that idea and then she does it and it's like this is weird sexual connotation to it and you're just like what and it's I don't know. It's confusing like this film is confusing like I I was all over the place watching this I was just like I'm like, I don't know how to feel right now like this is really messed up But it's also like kind of entertaining. I don't I don't know Whoo, then the cattle prod. Oh my gosh Like the cattle prod coming out of nowhere because they just said like oh, how do you discipline baby? I'm like, oh, you know, he gets a spanking and then later you find out that like the sisters like jabbing them with a cattle prod But then what's even worse than the use of the cattle prod in this point is the Response that the other sister and the mom have when they find her doing the cattle prod on baby They're just like, oh, no, don't do that. Like that's the equivalent of their response. It's not like, oh my gosh What are you doing? It's oh, no, don't do that. That's that's a little too much. It's like okay So we reached a new new level though when the one sister I think her name was Linda crawl like drops down her like negligee and crawls into bed with baby at night and You don't see anything obviously, but it's like it's Heavily implied by the way that was shot that she's having sex with him or at least molesting him I don't know it is it's nuts Like I feel like especially for 1973 like this movie crosses So many lines and so many weird ways that like I understand why it wasn't a big thing then and why it Has now become a cult classic because a lot of people are kind of like pulling up all like the schlocky movies And just like the the old terrible movies that people are like, oh my god Look at how funny that it is because it's so bad and there's definitely like fits into that You definitely see how controlling them up the mother is Not just because of how she reacts with baby But also because of the fact that her daughters are like always right by her side Like it seems like they don't do anything without her pretty much unless they are staying at the house because she's going somewhere else and So yeah, so that they did a good job of like kind of showing how closely knit that family is well Not closely that more like controlled by the mother. So The guy Dennis at the party so the house party scene where it's a birthday party for baby When that guy Dennis starts to hit on Anne I wrote down this guy comes on to women like a serial killer At first he makes a comment about like oh, you have beautiful skin First of all, that's a serial killer come on and then he's just like oh, are you alone and he doesn't say like Oh, did you come here with anyone or something? He's like are you alone and then later on even when he's like getting on with I think her name was Alba He was like they start having this like weird metaphor conversation and he's like Oh does a cannibal like meat and it's just like dude the skin The are you alone and the cannibal stuff like you're psycho, man Weird character The dancing at the birthday party looks like people were having seizures by the way Particularly the mother Mrs. Wadsworth and the the older gentleman that she grabbed onto the dance floor those two in particular were like Looked like they were having seizures on the dance floor. It's crazy One of the things that occurred to me at that point Well, first of all like that whole day the like party scene in the dance scene like went on way too long You're just like why are we still doing this like there's not enough going on during this to? Yeah, necessitate the party being this long or us sticking with the party that long But during that when then you know They're doing all the stuff in the basement and they tied up and everything and then baby goes down there The part where like baby knocks the food the jar of food off the shelf and I believe it breaks And then a little bit later you see like babies like eating it wouldn't baby be eating glass at that point Like and then Anne's not even saying anything about it. She's just like I mean I understand she's like concerned about getting herself untied, but at the same time I would think she was so concerned about baby, especially from what you see in the end that she would be like Don't eat glass. Don't do that crazy And I wrote down Anne would need an insane amount of time and resources to teach baby to be a grown adult Once she gets him to her house She's like I'm gonna make him big again And so I mean you find out that that's basically like a ruse but the fact that she kind of presents that to The mother to Mrs. Wadsworth and the sisters and they're like believing it They're like, oh my god, she's gonna make him a grown man in like a day or two It's not even possible, but you find out that like that's not her intent. She's just gonna keep him a baby basically Did I miss something or how did they find out where Anne lives? Because the mom and and and daughters show up I feel like there was nothing saying like how they found out where she lives and so it was just kind of really random They really drag it speaking about dragging out scenes like I was talking about the party scene being totally drug out the like break-in scene with the daughters going in and then eventually the mother like that was Really long and drawn out and it just took all the interest and fun out of it to be honest And then even when you get to the part where it's more interesting We're like this the daughters get killed and then she's fighting the mom Actually, and and her mother are fighting. This is what Mrs. Wadsworth Like that's supposed to be exciting parts and it's a little bit exciting at times But then it that also gets dragged on a little too much plus everything with the break-in leading up to it took way too long It's just like it's kind of boring Like for the end of it and for it coming to this like big crescendo. It's pretty boring to be honest And then the ending happened and I said to myself I actually wrote down well, that's one way to end the film Like the part where so I like I was totally with it the part where like she you know rolls the bodies into the hole And then eventually you find out it was you know, they're gonna put a pool on there Which the people doing the pool Wouldn't they come back and be like oh, why did you fill in part of this hole that we dug? Don't you think they feel suspicious about that? Anyway plot holes Whatever, I don't I don't think it matters for the script, but Yeah, so it's just a nuts ending because then you're just like wait what so she basically her husband Had I guess I had some sort of like brain and trauma and he's reverted to being a child So then she wanted a play a play partner for him It's How do you come up with this like that's the thing like I started thinking I'm just like like my mind was blown I'm just like how do you come up with this concept? How I don't get it I can feel like it would make more sense nowadays people coming up with that concept because We've done so much with film at this point. There aren't that many like You know original ideas. So if someone's gonna come up with an original idea It's gonna be out there most likely but for back in the 70s There was a lot of other things you could do. How did you come up with this Abe? Abe Polsky And then in the very end when you see like the whole family together, I Was just thinking I was just like I don't really like it's hard to tell I don't know who's worse in this situation was baby worse off Where he was initially or is he worse off in the end? I Mean, I guess if you just look at the aspect of baby, baby's probably better off Where he is in the end But if you look at who's worse, I guess Anne is and her mother are worse because they murdered people. I Mean there was intent potentially intended murder murder with Mrs. Wadsworth and her daughters But there was actual murder with Anne and her mother So It's crazy. I want to know what other people's thoughts are on this. Please comment down there I wrote down like the directing is actually solid in this There's no problem with the directing the music is actually pretty solid at times There's some really good cello work in them in the soundtrack at certain points too that I took note of I was just like Oh, this seems oddly inspired for a film like this So the guy David Mooney who played baby like I said he did a good job for the role He actually did get a few small roles after that Not a whole lot, but he got a few small roles And then I started thinking like did he refer to this movie to get other jobs? We just like check out my reel I was in this movie called the baby and I played a man baby. So Yeah Check that out. I actually liked Ruth Romans performance. She's the woman who played Mrs. Wadsworth I thought she had the strongest performance of anyone in the film And I actually thought that she should be in actual films like she should be in other films other than this And maybe her talent was kind of wasted You know I Didn't look up to see if she did other stuff, but hopefully she did because she was good But I have to say on the other end you have and Jeanette Comer who was Anne and I wrote down She was too aggressive and odd with her line delivery It's like she's trying to push words through her mouth like it's hard to do Yeah, there are many times where she was just like it felt like she was just like trying to like force things out of her mouth with her lines and it was kind of like Anxiety inducing to watch her act because I was just like don't hurt yourself It's crazy If you know what I'm like if you've seen it I hope you know what I'm talking about if you don't go back and watch at least a little bit of it like some of Her portions and you'll see what I'm talking about like It's it's so like It's crazy. It's like I Mean I described it the best I can it's like she's trying to force words out of her mouth and her mouth is in cooperating It's nuts. It's very weird. Okay, so anyway, that's all I have to say about the film. Obviously, it's insane I want I definitely want to hear comments on other people who have seen it like I gotta know what other people think about this film So Star ratings kind of tricky So I'm gonna do it the two ways like I like to do with bad films that are kind of fun so in in The first rating is out of five stars with half stars in play and it is based on all films like in the pantheon of film One star Yeah, one star Maybe I between one and one and a half, but I'm gonna go with the one. Okay now rating it on the scale of just like bad movies that are like fun bad I'm gonna give it a two and a half Because it's worth seeing once But I don't think I want to see it after that and it's really out there and there's some fun in that But I don't want to go back to it and like I kind of enjoyed it But I kind of also did not enjoy it so it's just so I feel like two and a half is perfect because it's you know Smack dab in the middle of it. So But anyway Yeah, I hope I don't have nightmares tonight because it's a little bit nightmare inducing how weird it is But anyway, thank you people for checking out this review I'm like I said very interested to see what comments I get on this one You can give a thumbs up if you want to but the big thing is please hit that subscribe for me It's your it's your way to repay me at least repay me for watching this movie If nothing else but it takes you literally a second and it can mean a lot for my channel So I would appreciate that but anyway, thanks for checking it out and until next time keep it brutal