i do not want to bear open in a hospital delivery room where mum to be lucy carlesi ( joan collins ) be give birth . dr finch ( horror film veteran donald pleasence ) be on hand to assist . he look at at the nurse and claim and this baby doesn not want to be bear . so he give the little lad a help hand and use some large medical tongs he grab hold of the baby and pull him out and nice . wait in some room elsewhere in the hospital the dad gino carlesi ( ralph bates ) hear the good news from dr finch . finch informs gino both mother and baby be fine . however thing take a turn for the bad almost immediately and they hear scream and they rush to lucy who cheek have be scratch by the little lad . dr finch put it down to basic survival instinct and that lucy be hold him too tightly . once the family be back home thing do not improve . the baby wreck his room and breaking and throw thing all over the place and and he start to have a violent fit of some sort when lucy and gino try to christen him in a church . lucy know something be wrong and talk to her friend mandy ( caroline munro ) she confess that she think he may be possess by the devil . mandy and a any good friend probably would and try to comfort her . but lucy start to tell a story and the film now go into flashback a we see lucy dance on stage at a sleazy strip club . back stage fellow performer hercules ( george claydon ) and a dwarf ( . ) hit on her . she make it perfectly clear shes not interested and the club owner tommy morris ( john steiner ) burst in and throw hercules out and have sex with lucy . hercules seem to hold a grudge because a lucy be walk out of the club he jump out and put a curse on any future child lucy might have and he say your child will be as big a i be small and and will be possess by the devil . and thats about it really and thats all he do and and it work too . either that or this kid have some serious problem . add ginos sister and a nun from italy sister albana ( eileen atkins ) and extremely worried babysitter and dr finch constantly try to explain the baby problem through medical reasoning and bizarre death and an exorcism and we have the mid 70 horror i do not want to be bear . direct by peter sasdy this be a real product of the 70 and everything scream the 70 and clothes and hairstyle and car and the interior of house and office and music and the way london look and absolutely everything . thats not really a criticism and just an observation . the acting be ok and i especially liked john steiner a the sleazy wise crack strip club owner . there a bit of nudity and some sex but no real violence or gore in it and but the killing be good enough . i think the film fail slightly because the idea just isn not develop at all and the whole film be basically the baby be violent and kill the odd person and other character like lucy friend mandy and dr finch be introduce and but nothing be do with them over the bare minimum . one more thing i find odd be that the baby be never give a name and at least no one call it by any name at any point . the film get a bit dull after a while and and it drag in a couple of place too . ok i guess and nothing special and worth a watch if you can catch it on tv for free ( like me ) and but it not really worth pay good money for .