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      It's Alive

      PG Released Apr 26, 1974 1 hr. 31 min. Horror List
      67% 24 Reviews Tomatometer 41% 5,000+ Ratings Audience Score Leaving their son, Chris (Daniel Holzman), with a family friend (William Wellman Jr.), Frank (John P. Ryan) and Lenore Davis (Sharon Farrell) head to the hospital for the birth of their second child -- which turns out to be a mutant who kills many doctors and nurses as it escapes. Convinced his monstrous son must be destroyed, Frank ignores Lenore and Chris' pleas and tries to destroy the freakish progeny, unaware that the infant may be the blameless product of an experimental drug gone wrong. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered May 14 Buy Now

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      Tough and unpleasant, It's Alive throttles the viewer with its bizarre mutant baby theatrics.

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      acsdoug D So bad it's good? Nope, not in my book, just a bad 70s horror movie with an incredibly intrusive score. John P. Ryan, who was so good in Runaway Train, is about as emotive as a log in this one. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/24 Full Review Jay H Neat premise, but this movie gets old real fast. A lot of the editing is very poorly done. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/18/24 Full Review Steve D Too ridiculous and self serious to be taken seriously. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/08/23 Full Review deborah b I thought it was kind of cheesey this being the 2nd time I watched it. I guess at the time it was made it was good. U think that people should make their own opinions on this movie bot mine Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/26/23 Full Review desmond b There are lots of movies about kids that grow up bad (e.g. The Omen) or get taken over by something bad (e.g. The Exorcist) but Cohen had the revolutionary idea to make a film about a newborn baby who was bad from birth. Straight from the womb to the killing fields. We all have a savage, cannibalistic baby buried in our unconscious. This is why we're scared of small things – mice, grasshoppers, cockroaches. And Cohen's genius was to take the smallest, most innocent being we know, a tiny baby, and make him the monster from our id. My complete review is at https://thecannibalguy.com/2022/05/22/cannibal-baby-its-alive-larry-cohen-1974/ Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Solidly weird, sometimes suspenseful and a great score. 70s schlocky horror fun Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/22 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      David Robinson Times (UK) The film is too crudely cobbled together to make much of anything -- even a score by Bernard Herrman. Jun 27, 2023 Full Review Kim Newman Empire Magazine Larry Cohen's horror thriller is at once a great suspense/monster film and a darkly comic soap opera about strained parent-child relationships. Rated: 4/5 May 24, 2019 Full Review Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness A deeply terrifying portrait of child-parent relationships and intolerant fears of "otherness" defined as much by its sociological sharpness as its gore. Rated: A Jan 26, 2006 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy It skews on the amateurish side, with an intriguing premise compromised by bland characters, awkward dialogue, and lurching scenes. Rated: 2/4 Aug 29, 2021 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com It's Alive goes from foreboding conversations about pollution to full tilt nightmare rather quickly. Rated: 3.5/5 Aug 25, 2020 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...the picture slowly-but-surely loses its grip on the viewer as it progresses into an often unbearably meandering midsection... Rated: 1/4 Aug 11, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Leaving their son, Chris (Daniel Holzman), with a family friend (William Wellman Jr.), Frank (John P. Ryan) and Lenore Davis (Sharon Farrell) head to the hospital for the birth of their second child -- which turns out to be a mutant who kills many doctors and nurses as it escapes. Convinced his monstrous son must be destroyed, Frank ignores Lenore and Chris' pleas and tries to destroy the freakish progeny, unaware that the infant may be the blameless product of an experimental drug gone wrong.
      Director
      Larry Cohen
      Executive Producer
      Peter Sabiston
      Screenwriter
      Larry Cohen
      Distributor
      Warner Bros. Pictures
      Production Co
      Warner Brothers
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Apr 26, 1974, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 19, 2016
      Sound Mix
      Mono
      Aspect Ratio
      Flat (1.85:1)
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