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When social worker Ann Gentry takes on the Wadsworth case, involving a full-grown man with the mental capacity of a helpless infant, ideals clash. Ann is convinced with the right encouragement and incentive, “Baby” can learn to be a man but Baby’s mother isn’t convinced and she’ll do everything in her power, even kill, to keep Ann and social services from coming between her and her child.
This bizarre little film may be a fetishist’s wet dream but it’s also disturbing as hell as featuring such controversial themes as incest, Paraphilic infantilism, Pedophilia, Sadomasochism, murder, drug use and kidnapping. For a film that, on the surface, appears to be a made-for-TV movie-of-the-week, The Baby comes out of left field with a kind of twisted horror rarely seen in 70′s fare. Director Ted Post (Magnum Force, Beneath the Planet of the Apes & Hang ‘Em High) masterfully avoids exploitation and successfully creates sympathy for David Mooney’s Baby and, at times, an unbearable amount of tension between Anjanette Comer and Ruth Roman (Strangers on a Train).
The Baby may be dreadfully dated (read: gross hippies) but it’s a brilliantly odd and interesting film that, thanks to Severin Films, will now receive the attention it deserves from genre fans and critics alike. Older fans that remember the film fondly will now be able to revisit this in a brand new (gorgeous) transfer and younger fans that have never seen this film will now get the opportunity to experience The Baby for the first time, looking better than ever.
Whether you’re into exploitation or just whacked-out horror thrillers, The Baby is definitely the kind of film one simply must see to believe. From a disorienting beginning to the mind-blowing insanity of the finale, you’re guaranteed to remember (and hopefully appreciate) The Baby long after you purchase this release, the final credits scroll, you check out the insightful extras and you slide this into your DVD collection. Bravo Severin, bravo!
[...] (read: gross hippies) but it’s a brilliantly odd and interesting film that, thanks to Severin Films, will now receive the attention it deserves from genre fans and critics alike. Older fans that [...]