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Director:
Peter Sasdy
Writers:
Nato De Angeles (story)
Stanley Price (screenplay)
Release Date:
30 August 1976 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Horror more
Tagline:
Not Since "Rosemary's Baby"... more
Plot:
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Ey, issa me - Italian Ralph Bates! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Joan Collins ... Lucy Carlesi
Eileen Atkins ... Sister Albana
Ralph Bates ... Gino Carlesi

Donald Pleasence ... Dr. Finch
Caroline Munro ... Mandy Gregory
Hilary Mason ... Mrs. Hyde
John Steiner ... Tommy Morris
Janet Key ... Jill Fletcher
George Claydon ... Hercules
Derek Benfield ... Police Inspector
Stanley Lebor ... Police Sergeant
Judy Buxton ... Sheila
Andrew Secombe ... Delivery Boy
Susan Richards ... Old Lady
Phyllis MacMahon ... Nun
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
It Lives Within Her (UK) (video title)
It's Growing Inside Her (TV title)
Sharon's Baby (USA)
The Baby
The Devil Within Her (USA)
The Monster
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Runtime:
95 min | Belgium:90 min (video version)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Argentina:16 (re-rating) | Argentina:X (original rating) | Australia:MA (cable rating) | Australia:M (original rating) | Sweden:15 | UK:X | USA:R | Norway:18 (video rating) (1982) | Norway:(Banned) (1975-2003) (cinema release)
Company:
Unicapital more

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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Prime Suspect: Scent of Darkness (1995) (TV) more

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Ey, issa me - Italian Ralph Bates!, 11 September 2008
Author: Seb from United Kingdom

Poor old Ralph Bates looks miserable in this movie and it's not hard to see why, it really stinks.

Joan Collins plays a stripper and proves she dances as well as she acts. It's really bizarre, I think it's supposed to be erotic but it looks like she is having some kind of slow-motion embolism. Correctly deciding that she isn't cut out for being a stripper she leaves to marry her Italian lover played with a comedy accent by long-suffering Ralph with his sad face and highly unpredictable accent.

Before she goes though she gets cursed by a dwarf who she spurns. She promptly has a baby that has unusual powers. Oooer, spooky - you'd imagine they might give it demonic powers or something but no, it has sharp nails.

Time and time again we see actors stagger back from its cot screaming "it scratched me, with its sharp nails" - cue closeup to harmless baby without sharp finger nails.

This atrocious plot goes nowhere and throughout it all there's a soundtrack of a baby crying, for goodness sake. What were they thinking of? It's impossible to watch this movie without getting a blinding headache. It's almost worth it to hear Ralph Bates trying to be Italian though, it really is the worst accent I've ever heard in a movie.

Dreadful from start to finish and with a supporting cast that are just ludicrous thrown in for good measure. You can see why they had to rename it about 50 times, I pity the person who was tricked into seeing this film twice.

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