The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever scared. And it's easily scared.
Practical Effects
The mutant baby puppet is gloriously grotesque and weirdly emotive
Direction
Cohen wrings genuine pathos from absurd premise
Sound
Bernard Herrmann's final score: screeching strings for killer infant chaos
Director
Larry Cohen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rick Baker built three animatronic babies; the crawling one kept malfunctioning and looked unintentionally pathetic, which Cohen embraced.
Cohen conceived this after seeing a birth deformity article and reading about thalidomide—1970s parental anxiety weaponized.
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