What do you name your devil baby movie anyways? Do you settle on calling it The Monster? I love how Amazon and IMDb sometimes call a movie completely different things. Also, I do wonder why? If the rights to playing the movie spell out that it should be titled The Monster, then shouldn't IMDb change their sheet to say that too? Does any of this matter? Am I the only one who gives a shit? Yes. The answer, is yes.
Another thing...while we're on the title. Sharon's Baby is a fine name and all, but who the fuck is Sharon? The main character in this is named Lucy...you know, the woman...with the baby....Sharon's baby? Lucy's baby? I'm done. There is no one named Sharon in this movie, and the closest you get is a side character named Sheila.
What you DO have, instead of a Sharon, is a woman named Lucy who used to work as a stripper and has a shady past. Her and her new husband Gino are expecting a baby, and there are complications with the birth. Donald Pleasence is the doctor who exclaims "This one doesn't want to be born." Once the baby is out, it grows faster than normal and is dangerous from day one. Mixed in with all this is Lucy's flashback to a dwarf she used to dance with who came on to her one night, she denied him, and he cursed her. Hence, the baby is possessed etc etc.
There's a few good moments of unintentional comedy, there's some cool deaths, there's some random scenes of nudity. In other words, this has the ingredients. This is fast moving enough, wacky enough, has Donald Pleasence in it, and these all add up to an enjoyably bad movie. They also put a ton of weird sound effects around the baby, so at times the baby is apparently a semi truck dragging pots and pans with a siren going on in the background.
It's a subpar send up of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist. If those had a nude stripper that also liked dwarfs. Put this on the list of movies I've seen with evil midgets, and similarly, the whole "unexplained midget" thing. I'm not saying you always have to explain your midget. But this is a trope in movies, and it's one that I see pop up a ton.
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