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Let's be realistic.

best movie i've ever seen.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The TV commercial for It's Alive terrified me. The music, the slowly turning bassinet, the fact that a demon baby was inside - it was too much for my child brain to handle. I would cover my ears and yell every single time I saw it. The power and memory and latent fear for this thirty seconds created stayed with me for decades, ensuring that I would never watch this film. Until now. Frank and Lenore Davis are excitedly expecting the birth of their second child. They've been waiting for years and properly planned the child's birth, with Lenore using birth control pills until the time was right. However, their infant is a monster, a deformed creature with fangs and claws that is so horrifying, one of the doctors instantly tries to suffocate it. The baby kills the team who delivered it before escaping, leaving a crying Lenore and frightened Frank.The baby goes on a murderous rampage while Frank denies that the child is his, as a parallel is made to Frankenstein and how Dr. Frankenstein abandoned his creation. It turns out that the birth control drugs Lenore was on may have caused the mutation. To protect their bottom line, they want the child destroyed.The baby finds its way home, where Lenore embraces her child. Their first son, Chris, becomes homesick (he'd been staying with Charley, a family friend) and returns home, where he meets his sibling and promises to protect him. Frank discovers that the child is being hidden and shoots at it, but the baby escapes and kills Charley.The police and Frank track the child to the sewer, where the father realizes that the beast is his flesh and blood. Hiding the baby in his coat, Frank tries to escape, but he's caught by the police. Then, his child leaps from his arms to kill the pharmaceutical company representative who is with the cops. The police open fire, killing the child and the man who he is attacking.As the police take the Davis family home, we learn that another deformed child has been born in Seattle.When Larry Cohen completed the film, he learned that the executives who had produced the film were all gone. It's Alive got a paltry one week run in Chicago and a limited release. Three years later, after that team of executives were replaced, Cohen convinced Warner Brothers to re-release the film with the ad campaign featured above, leading to a successful run.It's Alive preys on our worst fears - that our children will grow to become monsters. However, Cohen takes it a step further. These children instantly are monstrous killers.Two sequels - It Lives Again and It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive - followed, as well as a remake. The original - shot at the same time as Hell Up in Harlem by a crew that was doing day and night shoots 7 days a week - is an impressive film. Like all Cohen's work, the idea is stronger than the budget and the final product looks so much better than the dollars it cost to create would suggest.

I was too young to see this when it came out but vividly remember the ads and was very intrigued at the time. I'm so glad it was R-Rated and had to wait to see it. It's one of the worst horror movies ever! The acting was truly awful. The story is pathetic in every way, from the characters, to the plot development and especially the thrill factor. There's zero suspense, very little gore and even the attack scenes didn't raise my pulse one beat. It also completely lacked the proper amount of "cheese" for a good 'B' Film. Don't waste the 91 minutes of your life on this piece of junk. There are absolutely no redeeming qualities about this movie whatsoever!

A pregnant couple (well, the wife, anyway) have a baby in a hospital while leaving their son babysat by their friend. While the wife is in labor, the husband discusses with a group of other men the way urban cities have all kinds of pollutants in the air, water and food... as it turns out in this hilarious yet creepy old b-movie, the baby has been mutated somehow and kills when it gets scared, from the nurses in the delivery room to the family cat. Only the father can seek out his child and accept it despite its unnatural appearance.I think what I liked most about this movie is towards the end, when the father rescues the child. I didn't appreciate the environmental propaganda message behind the movie, and It's Alive has its flaws, but hey, what low-budget horror movie doesn't? That's what makes them so much fun to watch! The acting was fairly decent and the soundtrack was pretty good, all in all it's a great little horror movie.

But, it's not the worst.This film is about a husband and wife who give birth to their second child. Unfortunately for them, the baby is a mutant, and they must do all they can to kill it.Simple enough, but there were enough elements in it that kept me interested. For example, throughout most of the film, the baby is kept mostly in the shadows, which I think is a very effective portrait of the baby. It works, and it makes the baby even more creepy when we do see it in full light.Unfortunately, there were some flaws, but the main one that I had was that the acting could have been much better. That being said, it is still better than most acting in horror movies today, where the hot females chicks only say stuff like "Oh my God! Ahhhhhhhhh!" So, it could have been better, but it could have been worse as well.All in all, a decent enough horror film. However, do not go in expecting something like A Nightmare on Elm Street or Jaws, because this is in no way as good as those two, or any other movies along that line. Just go in expecting to be thrilled, and leave your brain at the door. 7/10 for me.