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Tough and unpleasant, It's Alive throttles the viewer with its bizarre mutant baby theatrics. Read Critics Reviews
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It's Alive is a marvel, with a solid performance by Ryan and a mesmerizing score by the late, great Bernard Herrmann. Full Review | Aug 11, 2018
113 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. Just enjoy the silliness. lost-in-limbo 10 December 2004. A hideous mutant baby is born and escapes from the hospital, now it's scared and killing people. They learn that its on its way home, to find protection from its parents.
Apr 23, 2021 · Ghoulish in its concoction but pitiable in its existence, the creature forces us to question the ethics of science run amok, the mortal nature of life, and mankind’s seemingly innate disgust at the things it doesn’t understand.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, It's Alive holds an approval rating of 67% based on 24 critic reviews and has an average rating of 6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Tough and unpleasant, It's Alive throttles the viewer with its bizarre mutant baby theatrics." [8]
Dec 2, 2012 · It’s Alive opens like any traditional drama about expecting parents. Frank (the great John P. Ryan), a public relations executive in Los Angeles, is awakened by his pregnant wife Lenore...
Sep 28, 1974 · It's Alive: Directed by Larry Cohen. With John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan, Guy Stockwell. The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever it is scared. And it is easily scared.
3.8K. A couple expecting a baby discover it's a monster that kills when it's scared. Terror, like all good things, begins at home. Set to a chilling Bernard Herrmann ("Psycho") score, this...
Jan 18, 2019 · It's Alive is an enjoyable Larry Cohen freak show, despite the polyester and archaic depiction of a husband's role during childbirth. Revisiting the film today, watching Frank pacing the waiting room is almost as surreal as that old Winston cigarette commercial with The Flintstones.
The best mutant killer baby movie ever made, Larry Cohen’s horror thriller is at once a great suspense/monster film and a darkly comic soap opera about strained parent-child relationships.
