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20 Reasons To Watch This Film! (SPOILERS)

posted 14 years ago by ukjf
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My tribute to a film that after a single viewing is now firmly added to my canon of "so bad it's good" movies

20 Reasons To Watch This Film!

1) Ralph Bates' ludicrous Italian accent!
2) It's got an obese randy dwarf!
3) Donald Pleasence desperately trying to add class to the proceedings!
4) The line "He is possessed by the day-vell"!
5) You get to see Joan Collins in some naughty undies!
6) A baby drop-kicks a nun in the head!
7) Eileen Atkins' EVEN MORE ludicrous Italian accent!
8) It's got a greasy club-owner working his way though all his strippers!
9) Ralph Bates' mid-70's two-tone Ford Capri!
10) A glorious jazz/rock/prog soundtrack by the bloke who wrote the theme to Steptoe and Son!
11) It's got a screaming old lady walking a couple of dogs!
12) The line "I didn't think I'd be discussing mysticism with an Italian nun"!
13) It's got a stripper with (even by 1970's standards) an enormous bush!
14) A sour-faced cleaning woman drinks a cup of tea with a mouse in it!
15) Ralph Bates gets hanged by a baby and then shoved down a coal-hole!
16) Some great shots of the Kings Road in the mid 70's!
17) Donald Pleasence acting in a scene with Floella Benjamin!
18) Ralph Bates' splendid kipper tie!
19) It's got a nun killing a dwarf!
20) The film's American title is Sharon's Baby, even though there's no-one called Sharon in the film!

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[–] BigPerm1974 13 years ago

LOL! The Dwarf's line to Collins was so funny. I put a course on you!

[–] theblackestmagic 11 years ago

How about the scene where the baby punches the s**t out of Collin's former a-hole lover, followed by his classic line, "That little bastard's yours alright"! PRICELESS!

[–] YouToober 11 years ago

Haha! This movie is pure camp!

The reasons you listed were great. Good reasons to watch this film. I also like the scene where the nun gets sliced by the "baby" with a safety pin (when she tells the baby she's going to pick him up). Then the camera then shows a close up of the baby's face, then the dwarf's face (dwarf's mean spirit inside of the baby, i guess), then the nun and then a close up of the baby's face again. It's amazing thinking the makers of this movie, when they filmed that scene, thought that was supposed to be scary. You see the nun shocked that she had been slashed, then they show that cute baby's face. No horror make-up. None whatsoever. Just a cute, little adorable baby, with big doe eyes. Like i said: Pure camp!

The scene where Donald Pleasence's character finds the husband, and meets his fate. That, in my opinion, was very good special effects for the '70s.

This is definitely one of those films to watch with some good food and some of the "good stuff" (i like rum) or with a group of friends (and the "good stuff").

[–] JSFound 11 years ago

Rope falls down from the tree, the husband literally steps into the noose. Hilarious. More hilarious were the shots of the baby, certainly the cutest baby possessed by the devil.

[–] cookiela2001 10 years ago

Additionally, it features:

* A sister-in-law who's not only a nun, but a scientist specializing in "animal pathology".
* This B Movie Wonder is played by the highly respected stage actress Eileen Atkins (who's played VIRGINIA WOOLF, for god's sake!)
* Joan Collins wears a series a thick, bouncy wigs, plus A TURBAN.
* Fresh milk in glass bottles being delivered door-to-door.
* A baby's angrily called 'a little monster' because it's kicked off its blanket and tossed toys out of its carriage.

[–] singjohn 9 years ago

Seeing Joan Collins get felt up by a dwarf was worth the rental.