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The Baby
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The Baby is a 1973 B-movie directed by Ted Post. The film is usually classified as horror, but it is actually more of a psychological drama.Ann Gentry (Anjanette Comer) is a social worker whose husband has recently been injured in an accident. She gets assigned to the Wadsworth family which consists of Mrs. Wadsworth (Ruth Roman), her two adult daughters Germaine (Marianna Hill) and Alba (Suzanne Zenor), and "Baby" (David Manzy), a grown man who acts and is treated like a baby. Ann takes on the case because she thinks the Wadsworths have been mistreating Baby, but there is also another reason she is interested in him. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Wadsworths. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Alba shows signs. The look on her face as she shocks Baby with a cattle prod is one of pure sadistic glee, she says that they should've sold Baby to a circus to be a sideshow attraction (which garners a negative response from both Germaine and Mrs. Wadsworth), and she instructs a guy who tries to flirt with her to burn his hand. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Mrs. Wadsworth breaks her legs and is then Buried Alive next to her recently killed daughters. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: Baby's mother and sisters. | |
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Surprisingly Happy Ending | |
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Surprisingly Happy Ending: Ann, Ann's mother-in-law, and the two "babies" (Baby and Ann's husband) are all happily playing in their new pool, which was built on top of the dead bodies of Baby's old family! | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Unlike her mother and sister, Germaine keeps up a pleasant facade around others throughout the film, even while kidnapping Ann or molesting her younger brother. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Each Wadsworth kid was fathered by a different man, which is probably why their mother Does Not Like Men. | |
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Girlish Pigtails | |
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Girlish Pigtails: Alba wears them in a couple scenes. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Mrs. Wadsworth and Germaine are disgusted with Alba when she suggests they should've sent Baby to the circus. | |
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Disposing of a Body | |
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Disposing of a Body: Mrs. Wadsworth and her daughters are buried in the Gentrys' backyard and a pool is built on top of them! | |
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False Widow | |
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False Widow: Ann. At first we assume her husband died, but it turns out he survived. He's just brain damaged and acts like a baby. | |
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Psychopathic Manchild | |
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Psychopathic Manchild: Alba definitely shows signs of being this since she's shown bullying Baby while hurling childish insults at him. She also doesn't exactly dress like an adult, either. | |
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Parent-Induced Extended Childhood | |
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Parent-Induced Extended Childhood: Mrs. Wadsworth and her two daughters have spent years keeping her son from maturing mentally, ensuring he retains the mindset of an infant despite being biologically twenty - to the point that they are more than willing to zap him with a cattle prod if he even tries standing upright. As such, the crux of the film involves a social worker attempting to get "Baby" away from Mrs. Wadsworth so he can achieve psychological adulthood... except it turns out that she has no intention of doing such a thing at all, instead adopting Baby so he can become a brother to her husband, who has been left in a similar state due to brain damage sustained in a car crash. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: At first, you'd think this movie was about a giant killer baby, when in actuality, Baby is harmless. It's his family who are the dangerous ones. | |
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Does Not Like Men | |
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Does Not Like Men: Mrs. Wadsworth and her daughters. Ann believes this is the reason they keep Baby, a baby. | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Brother–Sister Incest: Germaine is heavily implied in one scene to be molesting Baby. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Evil Matriarch: Mrs. Wadsworth is the primary antagonist of the film and raised her two daughters to keep Baby down. | |
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Screen-to-Stage Adaptation | |
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Screen-to-Stage Adaptation: It was performed in Los Angeles in 2013 and Toronto in 2015. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: It's a pretty serious work, aside from the "baby" part. | |
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Nice, Mean, and In-Between | |
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Nice Mean And In Between: Downplayed, as none of the Wadsworth women are nice people, but the way they behave towards Baby and around others shows shades of this, Germaine is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who handles most of the interactions with the outside world and keeps her sexual abuse of her brother underwraps, Alba is a sadistic individual who openly enjoys hurting Baby and has no problem with being rude and short-tempered with outsiders, Mrs Wadsworth does seem to genuinely care about Baby to an extent and often stops Alba from abusing her brother, but is far more openly hostile and abusive towards him than Germaine. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: When Ann takes Baby away from his family, she tries to get him some help. After learning that there's nothing actually wrong with his brain (by which he has no congenital mental conditions or learning difficulties), she then tries to teach him how to be an adult. For a while it seems to be working, but after Ann kills Baby's mother and sisters, it's revealed that she instead decided to keep Baby as a playmate for her brain damaged husband. | |
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You're Insane! | |
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You're Insane!: Ann and her mother-in-law got nothing on the Wadsworths. | |
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Big Sister Bully: Alba is shown being much meaner to Baby than her sister and mother, most notably in the scene where she's shocking him with a cattle prod while also mocking him. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Mrs. Wadsworth. Evil Matriarch tendencies aside, she does seem to genuinely care about Baby, as shown when she shocks Alba with a cattle prod for doing the same to Baby and later scolding her for suggesting that he should've been given to a circus. | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: Baby, because he was Not Allowed to Grow Up. Ann's husband is one too, as a result of his accident. | |
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His Name Really Is "Barkeep" | |
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His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Baby's actual name is, in fact, Baby. | |
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Dark Secret | |
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Dark Secret/Twist Ending: Ann's husband is also a "baby" (he became brain damaged from the car crash). | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Ann is very nice and pleasant, but don't cross her or you'll end up buried beneath her new pool. | |
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