What in the what . . .
So Petal and I tried to watch the newest film sensation on Shudder—Skinamarink. We tried. But what a load of shit that movie is. I don’t mind intentionally bad acting and special effects, like the goofy, over-the-top stuff Troma puts out. But intentionally bad camera work and sound . . . no thanks. We lasted twenty-four minutes before deciding Skinamarink was as boring and slow-moving as watching grass grow in the dead of winter. So we found something else.
What we found on Shudder’s The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs was The Baby.
I don’t know how I never heard of this movie prior to finding it on Shudder. I’ve done searches for kink and fetish films in the past (check out Videodrome, Preaching to the Perverted, The Night Porter), and that’s clearly what this is. It’s about a mother and her adult daughters who care for the mother’s son, also of adult age but with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.
In every way other than his size, Baby (David Mooney) is an infant. It gets awkward quick. Baby sleeps in a crib, cries like a baby, wears a diaper, gets fed bottles, and one chick even tries to breastfeed him. And then one demented sister goes up to Baby’s crib in her nightgown and . . . well, the nightgown comes off.
A social worker, played by Anjanette Comer, comes to know of the situation with Baby and begins working with him, supposedly trying to help him progress out of babyhood. But things only get more bizarre from there.
I’m not going to give away the ending, but it’s superb. I did not see it coming. Definitely one of those What the fuck? endings. Actually, this movie probably has more What the fuck? moments than anything I’ve seen in quite a while. The way all these full-grown ladies seem to get-off on babying this man is wild, to say the least. And the acting from all of them is very convincing. They all seem legit crazy, including the social worker. No, especially the social worker.
PC3’s Horror and Exploitation Movie Scale of Awesomeness!
Gore - 3
Special Effects - 3
Nudity/Sexuality - 7 (there is no nudity and the sexuality is very off-putting, but it’s without a doubt a very sexual film)
Wow Factor - 6
Acting - 7
Fear Factor - 0
Story/Plot/Originality - 8
Cinematography/Atmosphere - 6
Sound/Music - 5
Fun Factor - 6
So The Baby gets a very respectable 51 PHEMSA score. If you have a grown baby fetish, well, you’re in luck. You can find it on Shudder.
If, however, you are interested in grown adults with a pig fetish, check out my short story “Pigs” from Visceral: Collected Flesh with Christine Morgan.