The Baby (1973)
7/10
Weirdly Wonderful
6 June 2008
How can you go too far wrong with a film that centres much of its action around a fully grown man in a nappy!

On many levels this is a mess, and yet it's still utterly fascinating, shocking and very very funny. Could be read as an early feminist backlash film given the way that women feature as utterly exploitative and controlling figures who seem to want to do nothing other than mother and infantalise men. Ted Post's direction is typically rough and ready, though you can see a little of the influence of Peckinpah (for who Post was a regular cinematographer) in the over-blown, lurid quality of the film and the way it tends to handle female characters. It also owes a fair bit to Russ Meyers and other exploitation film makers of the late 60s and early 70s. I highly recommend it - I promise you will never have seen anything quite like this before and you certainly won't see it's like again.
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