A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. The problem is, the baby is twenty-one years old.
Acting
Ruth Roman's Mrs. Wadsworth: Mommy Dearest meets Tennessee Williams.
Direction
Ted Post squeezes genuine dread from dollar-store production values.
Writing
The script walks a tightrope between camp and genuine horror.
Director
Ted Post
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the 'weirdo family' horror boom of the early 70s alongside Spider Baby and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Studios realized suburban America feared its neighbors more than monsters.
Director Ted Post later disowned the film's marketing, which leaned into grindhouse sleaze. He insisted it was a serious study of psychological damage—though the wrestling scenes with 'Baby' suggest otherwise.
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