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Somehow as a kid in the early 80s I ended up with a vhs tape with the first of this trilogy of films on it. Watched it over and over as a kid. Then kind of just forgot about it until last year when I found the trilogy on DVD for cheap.
A expecting father enters the delivery room to see everyone dead and a trail of blood. His new born son is a mutant baby that kills. And the rest of the film is this father trying to find his son and protect him.
Great concept,playing off the various "these drugs if taken when pregnant will mess up your baby" scares of the 60s/70s,and Larry Cohen does a good job. Just wow this movie is slow as fuck. We don't see the mutant baby clearly until almost the end. Which makes the film feel a bit like a 50s drive in monster movie. When we do it looks a bit like a Cabbage Patch kid put into a microwave.
As a kid this was one of my favorite films. One I know I saw at least once a week. Rewatching it now it isn't as good as I remembered. Which kind off sucks. The film isn't bad. Just my brain had built it up as this gore soaked forgotten 70s classic. Which it isn't.
It's Alive gets a C.
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