TITLE:<\/strong> I Don\u2019t Want To Be Born aka The Devil Within Her
YEAR RELEASED:<\/strong> 1975
<\/span>DIRECTOR:<\/strong> Peter Sasdy
CAST:<\/strong> Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Eileen Atkins, Donald Pleasence<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REVIEW BY PETER FULLER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ex-stripper Lucy Carlesi (Joan Collins) gives birth to a 12lb baby boy, Nicholas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, she\u2019s been cursed by Hercules the dwarf (George Claydon) over her one-night stand with her former strip club owner boss (John Steiner), so the tyke turns out to be a little monster who, from the confines of his pram and cot, goes on a killing spree \u2013 drowning his nurse (Janet Key), hanging his dad Gino (Ralph Bates), decapitating the doctor who delivered him (Donald Pleasence<\/a>), and eventually stabbing mum Lucy with a pair of scissors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming to the rescue of Nicholas\u2019 soul, however, is Gino\u2019s sister in a habit, Albana (Eileen Atkins), who performs an exorcism on the murderous tot, causing Hercules to have a heart attack in the middle of his stage act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine The Exorcist fused with It\u2019s Alive and you\u2019ll have this woeful British exploitation in a nutshell. There are a couple of shocks and some gore on offer, but it\u2019s lazily directed by Peter Sasdy<\/a>, who was capable of far superior stuff, his excellent 1971 thriller Hands of the Ripper<\/a> being a prime example. <\/p>

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