horror film be a major feature of the british cinema in the sixty and early seventy and largely because such matter could not be see on television and the broadcasting company regard it a be unfit for family viewing . i don not want to be bear ( aka the devil within her ) and clearly show the influence of rosemary baby and the exorcist and although the film to which it bear the great resemblance and in term of it story and be the omen . yet a it come out in 1975 and a year earlier than that movie and it clearly can not be an omen rip off . perhaps the omen be an i don not want to be bear rip off . like the omen and i don not want to be bear involve a devilish child with a symbolically significant name . in the omen he be call damien and obviously a play on the word demon . here he be name nicholas and presumably a reference to the fact that the devil be sometimes refer to a old nick . ( i often wonder how this usage arise and give that saint nicholas and aka father christmas and be one of the most beloved saint of the christian church ) . nicholas be the son of lucy and a former nightclub stripper and and her husband and a wealthy italian businessman living in london . ( at least lucy be assume to be a stripper and although from what we see of her act it do not actually involve take her clothes off . joan collins and at this point in her career and seem to have be rather more coy about nudity than she be to be a couple of year later in film like the stud and the bitch ) . the title refers to the baby reluctance to come into this world while have be thrust into this vale of tear against his will have obviously have a deleterious effect on young nicholas character and a in the first few week of his life he proceed to slaughter everyone who come near him and include both his parent and his nanny and the doctor who deliver him . the only person who seem able to control him be his aunt and a nun who fly in from italy to act a exorcist . i be a teenager in the seventy and recall constantly be tell by my elder and better that my generation be all a bunch of hooligan . numerous explanation be put forward for this suppose epidemic of juvenile delinquency boredom and youth unemployment and peer pressure and drug and alcohol and the permissive society but the cause of nicholas bad behaviour seem to be something more exotic and namely a curse place upon his mother by a lustful dwarf whose sexual advance she reject . the say dwarf be employ by the nightclub to prance around on stage while the girl be perform and although it be never explain why the club owner assume that this bizarre diversion would increase the erotic allure of their performance . although the film contain some well know british actor of the period and include donald pleasence and eileen atkins and caroline munro and ralph bates and none of them bring much conviction to their role . ( bat seem to specialise in horror film he also act in dr jekyll and sister hyde and and this be refer to when in a hospital scene we hear an announcement for a dr jekyll . the family housekeeper be call mrs hyde ) . collins look incredibly glamorous for a woman in her early forty and but nevertheless manages to turn in one of the bad performance of her career and even though she could at time be very effective in horror film like tale from the crypt . the exorcist and the omen may have their fault and but they be technically well make film and well act and at their best genuinely scary . i don not want to be bear be none of those thing . it be a the sort of trashy low budget horror flick and thing that the british film industry could churn out by the dozen and which generally show that industry at it bad . the one good thing about it be that it come towards the end of the british horror boom . the genre decline in importance in the second half of the decade and largely because the broadcasting authority be become more permissive about violence provide it be show late at night and and in the eighty the industry and freed of it addiction to horror exploitation movie and silly sex comedy and underwent a revival when it return to make intelligent and watchable film . i don not want to be bear and however and serve a a reminder of just how bad british cinema could be at it nadir . negative .