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I Don't Want to Be Born (1975) Country of Origin: UK PRODUCTION SCRIPT DIRECTION PHOTOGRAPHY EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION MUSIC MAKE UP AND COSTUMES SPECIAL EFFECTS DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION MISCELLANEOUS CAST 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... In the wake of this dreadful film, any serious attempt to position Peter Sasdy as the last best hope for British horror cinema was made entirely untenable. The promise he had shown in his early work for Hammer (Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969), Countess Dracula (1970), Hands of the Ripper (1971)) now seemed to be revealed as pure luck, Sasdy looking like a man whose impressive work thus far had been mostly thanks to the talents of the people he worked with. This time, he's let down badly by Stanley Price's terrible script, that blatantly cribs from Rosemary's Baby (1968), It's Alive (1973) and The Exorcist (1973) and by a suitably embarrassed looking cast. After this appalling farrago, Sasdy abandoned horror altogether. It was a sad finale to a career that once promised so much. UK USA Australia Sweden UK USA 1975 May 1976 Not Since "Rosemary's Baby"... Conceived by the Devil, only she knows what her baby really is! The Baby - working title SEE ALSO BOOKS Ten Years of Terror pp.230-231 babies, children, dwarves, the occult, the supernatural, revenge, curses, exorcisms, nuns, possession, strippers
Last Updated: 15 October, 2008
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