As an avid fan of horror cinema for the majority of my life, I’ve seen some pretty strange themes being explored. Very few of these, however, strike me as being as strange as Ted Post’s “The Baby.”

This 1973 film is not like most horror films. It’s not gory, there are no serial killers terrorizing innocent victims, no other supernatural acts being portrayed… Instead, “The Baby” tells the story of a mother who mentally and physically reprimands her son so [...]