Frank and Lenora Davis are expecting the birth of their second child. As Frank waits with bated breath in the waiting room, Lenora is experiencing the miracle of birth, WRONG! Instead of a beautiful baby boy, Lenora has just given birth to a horrendous mutated baby that craves blood more than a bottle.

OK, first this was made in 1974, so I can give the effects a little break, but other than that this one is a stinker. Lenora gives birth to a baby that has severe defects, from what you can see it has fangs, a misshapen head and small muscular arms with claws and apparently no legs. I hate to admit this because of my love for him, but the baby in this movie had to be the inspiration for Belial in Basketcase.

The way the baby attacks, screams and looks are all very similar to Belial, and if anything I thought Belial was original, this just goes to show you not to have any heroes in life cause you always get let down. Anyway there is never a clear reason given why the baby looks as it does, but it attacks when it is frightened, and of course when you look at it you get scared, it gets scared and then you get your face ripped off. They also almost never show the monster, well at least clearly. It is always in a dark room or a bright light may be near, but most of the time they show the view of the kills through the baby's eyes.

As sub par as the effects are the acting is so horrible that it is good. John Ryan plays Frank, who looks and acts like a mobster but works in a press firm of some kind. The police chief and doctors are hysterical in the way they act and move, They all look at the camera and the dialog is lengthy and disoriented, like this review.

There is a few decent kills and lots of bright red blood. The baby wipes out an entire hospital staff in the first seconds of it's life, not bad for a new born.

What starts as horror comes down to a love story as the parents are finally forced into a showdown with their devil child. Will true love win out or will carnage abound. The ending of this film takes place in a sewer, which is also where this one belongs.

2/10