It's Alive (1974)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 5
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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
Dec 31, 1973 Wide
Oct 5, 2004
Warner Home Video
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Cast
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John P. Ryan
Frank Davies -
Sharon Farrell
Lenore Davies -
Andrew Duggan
The Professor -
Guy Stockwell
Clayton -
James Dixon
Lt. Perkins -
Michael Ansara
The Captain -
Mary Nancy Burnett
Nurse -
Robert Emhardt
The Executive -
Diana Hale
Secretary -
Daniel Holzman
Chris -
Shamus Locke
Doctor -
William Wellman Jr.
Charlie -
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All Critics (22) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (6) | DVD (9)
A far-fetched cult thriller.
rather scary little 70s cheap horror
A deeply terrifying portrait of child-parent relationships and intolerant fears of "otherness" defined as much by its sociological sharpness as its gore.
Entertaining cheese.
If not as packed with extras as one may have hoped, this It's Alive DVD is a much-welcomed event.
One part allegory on familial tensions and one part commentary on environmental and biological poisoning.
You wouldn't want to confuse what Cohen does for art, but for its genre It's Alive! manages a few neat tricks
...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.
This is no Rosemary's Baby but more like a campy Godzilla in diapers.
Choice Cohen schlock. 'There's only one thing wrong with the Davis baby...it's alive.'
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August 21, 2008:
Trailer Bulletin: It's AliveBijou Phillips sighting! The first trailer for Millennium's remake of the 1974 cult horror classic...
July 20, 2007:
Larry Cohen Plans Remakes of It's Alive, Black Caesar, and The StuffLong before he wrote movies like "Phone Booth," "Cellular," and (ugh) "Captivity," filmmaker Larry...
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Foreign Titles
- It's Alive (1974) (DE)
- It's Alive (1974) (UK)
