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It's Alive (1974)

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Release Date: Dec 31, 1973 Wide

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Horror journeyman Larry Cohen, writer and director of numerous quirky horror projects, made his first foray into the genre with this low-budget cult favorite about a murderous mutant baby on a suburban rampage. The story opens with a delivery-room massacre as the newborn child of Frank and Lenore Davies (John P. Ryan and Sharon Farrell) answers the doctor's slap by tearing him to pieces -- along with a few other medical personnel -- before fleeing the hospital for whereabouts unknown. The

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Larry Cohen

Oct 5, 2004

Warner Home Video

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A far-fetched cult thriller.

July 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

rather scary little 70s cheap horror

February 12, 2008

A deeply terrifying portrait of child-parent relationships and intolerant fears of "otherness" defined as much by its sociological sharpness as its gore.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness
Lessons of Darkness

Entertaining cheese.

September 21, 2005
Juicy Cerebellum

If not as packed with extras as one may have hoped, this It's Alive DVD is a much-welcomed event.

November 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

One part allegory on familial tensions and one part commentary on environmental and biological poisoning.

November 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

You wouldn't want to confuse what Cohen does for art, but for its genre It's Alive! manages a few neat tricks

October 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com
Filmcritic.com

...writer, producer, and director Larry Cohen did snap up a good, snarly idea for grossing people out by having a baby born with fangs and claws.

October 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

This is no Rosemary's Baby but more like a campy Godzilla in diapers.

October 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Choice Cohen schlock. 'There's only one thing wrong with the Davis baby...it's alive.'

August 11, 2003
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Audience Reviews for It's Alive

A mother gives birth to a violent mutant baby that goes on a rampage. It's a little silly but watchable comic horror. Most of the kills take place off camera annoyingly leaving you with just the bloody aftermath, but there's brief glimpses of gore now and then. I was also impressed with John P. Ryans performance as the father of the bloodthirsty mutant baby. Didn't like the film as much as I thought I would... dare I check out the remake?
April 26, 2008
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This movie is like a sequel to Rosemary's Baby combined with a bio-hazard type movie. I'm not sure whether or not it was a good idea, but it is creepy, and a pretty good horror movie, but it could be better.
January 18, 2011
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