I Don't Want to Be Born (1975)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1975
Running Times: 92m 33s (UK - theatrical)
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: Eastmancolor
Ratio:
Sound: mono

DIRECTION

Directed by: Peter Sasdy

PRODUCTION
Copyright: © Rank Film Distributors Limited MCMLXXV [1975]
Production Company: The Rank Organisation presents a Unicapital production  a Peter Sasdy film
Executive Producer: Nato De Angeles
Producer: Norma Corney (uncredited)
Production Supervisor: Christopher Sutton

SCRIPT
Screenplay by: Stanley Price
From an Original Story by: Nato De Angeles

DIRECTION
Assistant Director: David Bracknell
Assistant to the Director: Jill Bender
Continuity: Renee Glynne

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Kenneth Talbot
Camera Operator: Bob Kindred

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Keith Palmer
Processed by: Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, Bucks

MUSIC
Music Composed and Conducted by: Ron Grainer

SOUND
Sound Recording: Kevin Sutton
Sound Editor: Don Challis
Dubbing Mixer: Gordon K. McCallum

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Wardrobe Supervisor: Brenda Dabbs
Make-up: Eddie Knight
Hairdresser: Stephanie Kaye

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Bert Luxford

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Roy Stannard
Assistant Art Director: Ted Ambrose

OTHER CREW
Choreographer: Mia Nadasi

LOCATIONS
Made at: Pinewood Studios, London, England

CAST

Joan Collins (Lucy Carlesi)
Eileen Atkins (Sister Albana)
Ralph Bates (Gino Carlesi)

with
Caroline Munro (Mandy)
Hilary Mason (Mrs Hyde)
John Steiner (Tommy Morris)

Guest Star
Donald Pleasence (Dr Finch)

Janet Key (Jill)
George Claydon (Hercules)
Derek Benfield (police inspector)
Stanley Lebor (police sergeant)
Judy Buxton (Sheila)
Andrew Secombe (delivery boy)
Susan Richards (old lady)
Phyllis MacMahon (nun)
John Moore (priest)
Floella Benjamin (1st nurse)
Penny Darch (2nd nurse)
Lopez, Susie Lightining (strippers)
Val Hoadley, Janice Brett (dancers)

Ex-stripper Lucy Carlesi, now married to Gino, is awaiting the birth of their first child. She delivers a baby boy after a monumental labour but the new-born is extremely hostile, physically attacking its mother. A flashback reveals that Lucy once spurned the advances of an over-sexed dwarf she partnered in a stage act and was cursed by him, resulting in the abnormally large demonic baby. When a nun, Sister Albana, tries to bless the child, it screams hysterically and later causes many deaths. Sister Albana must face the demonic dwarf to safe the baby's soul...

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Fox-Rank

USA
Theatrical Distributor: American International Pictures
Video Distributor: Axon Video

Australia
Rating: M

Sweden
Rating: 15

UK
Rating: X, 18

USA
Rating: R

1975
January
28: UK - rated X by the BBFC

May
Day Unknown: UK - theatrical release

1976
August
30: Sweden - theatrical release

Not Since "Rosemary's Baby"...

Conceived by the Devil, only she knows what her baby really is!

Baby, The - working title
Bebé de Sharon, El - Venezuelan title
Bebé infernal, El - Argentine title
Devil Within Her, The - US title
Djävulens baby - Swedish title
Dogmak istemiyorum - Turkish title
Evil Baby - French title
Exousiastis, O - Greek title
It Lives Within Her - US video title
It's Growing Inside Her - US television title
Monster, The - UK re-release title (1982)
Paholaisen lapsi - Finnish title
Satansjong, Het - Flemish Belgian video title
Sharon's Baby - Italian/US title
Teufel in ihr, Der - West German title
Wil Niet Geboren Worden, Ik - Dutch title

SEE ALSO
Exorcist, The (1973)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)

PERIODICALS

CinemaTV Today 7 June 1975 p.14 (UK)
illustrated article (The stars turn out for a night of horror...)

BOOKS

Ten Years of Terror pp.230-231
illustrated credits, review (by Nigel Burrell)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

babies, children, curses, dwarves, exorcisms, nuns, the occult, possession, revenge, strippers, the supernatural

Last Updated: 16 May, 2009