It Lives Again

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Dave S Could there actually be a method to the madness of It Lives Again? Is it possible that it offers an opinion on the age-old abortion debate in America? Or could it be a commentary of some sort concerning human evolution? Possibly, but probably not. Larry Cohen's sequel to It's Alive features three troublesome mutant babies eating their way through the general populace…and that would be pretty much all that there is to the plot. The problems with the movie are extensive. Much of the dialogue is pointless, the acting is terrible, the editing has no sense of rhythm to it, the lighting is a mess, many shots are out of focus, and director Cohen proves time after time that he has no aptitude for framing shots or effectively blocking scenes. If you have to watch a movie about psychotic infants, stick with the original. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/22/23 Full Review Audience Member A good horror sequel. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/20/20 Full Review Audience Member A basic retread of the first movie. Though this one has a great ending and the leads are more likeable. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Writer/director Larry Cohen follows up his cult classic with this okay but not as good as the original sequel. The monster baby epidemic continues and now the father of the first film's killer monster baby is part of one extremist group seeking to warn parents of a government conspiracy to kill their monstrous and dangerous babies. Frederic Forrest and Kathleen Lloyd play the main new couple who Ryan tries to help. Like most of Cohen's films, he infuses his low budget exploitation films with social commentary and here he tackles the abortion debate, which is not a topic you often see in genre pictures. However, on a straight entertainment level, this film isn't as exciting or subversively funny as some of this other films, but it's still a entertaining film and worth checking out for people who enjoy films about monster babies and such (especially when you have Rick Baker doing the monster baby special effects). And Cohen reuses the Bernard Herrmann score from the first film since Herrmann has passed away by the time this film was made, so anytime there is a Bernard Herrmann score, that's a good thing. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member While it is a bit boring compared to the first one, Larry Cohen's It Lives Again is still an enjoyably insane piece of horror cinema that features an epidemic of evil babies. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member If You Thought One Baby Was Bad, Try Triplets--Decent follow up expanding on the original!! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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