'I don't Want to Be Born' (1975) – Peter Sasdy.
Sinister celluloid mastermind, and all-round Hammer Horror hero Peter 'The Stone Tape' Sasdy's blissfully camp, good taste trashing, fatally Natal nightmare 'The Monster' aka 'I don't Want to Be Born' is a hallucinatory, Brit-Horror masterclass in diminutive demonic despotism! And alongside the indomitably fabulous, luminescently-domed Donald Pleasence it also stars the darkly lustrous, enticingly voluptuous terror-temptress Caroline 'Dracula A.D. 1972' Munro, Cor! Not ruddy 'arf, mayte! Unfortunately it also 'stars' Joan Collins, but you can't win 'em all, squire! Only kiddin', the macabre Matriarch Joanie's a reet B-Movie Bobby dazzler too! (Ish!) All boorish jocularity aside, the hugely talented Thespian Eileen Atkins is suitably divine as the sternly sin-slashing Sister Albana, and nun more suited than she to exquisitely exorcise the ignominious, ferociously face-clawing imp! This patently absurd freak-show, while admittedly small in stature, is delightfully deformed! A murderous umbilicus of preternatural horror draws ever-tighter around the viewer's fear-constricted throat until the frightful film's final trimester of teat-tormenting terror will have you grasping for your terminal breast! While a great many of the maligned film's detractors claim its merits to be stillborn, I'm still nappily screaming its praises, baby! Amen!
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