This film has the best plotline of any movie in the history of cinema. Really!
Joan Collins stars as a stripper in a burlesque joint. Her co-star is a gypsy dwarf named Hercules. He makes advances on his co-star but when she knocks him back he places a curse on her unborn baby making the unborn child psychopathic.
If that wasn't enough, the film also co-stars Donald Pleasance, Ralph Bates and Caroline Munro. Kids TV legend Floella Benjamin even stars as a nurse. Holy great casting, Batman.
The film effortlessly captures the period with 70's London looking beautiful but with a sleazy underbelly as exemplified by the strip club. The film also gives La Collins an opportunity to look breathlessly fabulous in every scene. And every scene necessitates a costume change for Joanie.
And then there are the fantastic kills from the baby from hell. I love how the film cuts from some awful act of violence to the cutest baby you've ever seen. It feels completely jarring, surreal and works really well.
I Don't Want To Be Born also goes by other titles such as The Devil Within Her, Sharon's Baby and The Monster which is the title that is being used for a new Blu Ray release from Network Releasing who are fantastic with their titles and so I look forward to how great this title will look. 70's Joan Collins in High Def! We really don't deserve it. And we've only just had Blu Ray releases of both The B*tch and The Stud.
I actually think this film is a masterpiece. It's also my favourite film from 1975. Yes, I think it's better or maybe just as good as Jaws and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Of course there are those who dismiss this title as just 70's exploitation fluff. But that lazy summation disregards the beautiful cinematography, the time capsule aspect of the time the film captures both on and off camera (there was a real thirst for horror movies amongst British cinema goers in the 70's) and the set design which is pinpoint perfect. Oh, and the acting is pretty fantastic too. This film may be an Exorcist/Rosemary's Baby rip-off but just like Beyond The Door it more than holds it's own just like Piranha did in the wake of Jaws or Zombie Flesh Eaters after Dawn of the Dead.
A classic film. Seriously.
Joan Collins stars as a stripper in a burlesque joint. Her co-star is a gypsy dwarf named Hercules. He makes advances on his co-star but when she knocks him back he places a curse on her unborn baby making the unborn child psychopathic.
If that wasn't enough, the film also co-stars Donald Pleasance, Ralph Bates and Caroline Munro. Kids TV legend Floella Benjamin even stars as a nurse. Holy great casting, Batman.
The film effortlessly captures the period with 70's London looking beautiful but with a sleazy underbelly as exemplified by the strip club. The film also gives La Collins an opportunity to look breathlessly fabulous in every scene. And every scene necessitates a costume change for Joanie.
And then there are the fantastic kills from the baby from hell. I love how the film cuts from some awful act of violence to the cutest baby you've ever seen. It feels completely jarring, surreal and works really well.
I Don't Want To Be Born also goes by other titles such as The Devil Within Her, Sharon's Baby and The Monster which is the title that is being used for a new Blu Ray release from Network Releasing who are fantastic with their titles and so I look forward to how great this title will look. 70's Joan Collins in High Def! We really don't deserve it. And we've only just had Blu Ray releases of both The B*tch and The Stud.
I actually think this film is a masterpiece. It's also my favourite film from 1975. Yes, I think it's better or maybe just as good as Jaws and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Of course there are those who dismiss this title as just 70's exploitation fluff. But that lazy summation disregards the beautiful cinematography, the time capsule aspect of the time the film captures both on and off camera (there was a real thirst for horror movies amongst British cinema goers in the 70's) and the set design which is pinpoint perfect. Oh, and the acting is pretty fantastic too. This film may be an Exorcist/Rosemary's Baby rip-off but just like Beyond The Door it more than holds it's own just like Piranha did in the wake of Jaws or Zombie Flesh Eaters after Dawn of the Dead.
A classic film. Seriously.