"It's Alive!"

TerrorFirmer

Okay, good god, what is the deal with these films. I mean it's a trilogy of movies, a trilogy of crap movies. And okay we've all seen bad movies. My gripe is that this one must have done well enough to let them make a second and third movie and it was also distributed by movie giants Warner Brothers.

Anyone seen them? It's basically the chronicles of a poor misfortune family to birth a mutant killer baby.

The most hilarious thing is that despite the fact it has the grace of an episode of Barney it must have done somewhat well to warrant a trilogy of movies.

For instance. One scene exits on the mother giving birth, with the staff commenting its an abnormally large baby. And then, the next scenes sees us in the delivery room, blood everywhere, staff violently murdered.

There is no evidence of the infant.

So naturally, as you do like, the police assume the baby born must be a killer mutant baby??! Sounds credible, right? Someone musta gotten the big bucks for this script. Which brings me onto the next bit:

The father is driving home the very next evening, ONE DAY LATER, and hears on the radio: "Police suspect a mutant infant is responsible for the killings at the local hospital...."

I mean jesus, the film was, I must admit, a fantastic laugh the morning after a drinking session. But as a film itself it was one of the most god awful things I've ever seen. Did it actually do well?? How was there a trilogy made?? Why does Warner Brothers have anything to do with this????

Apparently judging from the trilogy box set a babies cry will never be the same again. I dunno, I don't know many babies that sound like wild boars when crying. Maybe that's just me. And the wierd babies I know.

The mind boggles. I have yet to watch "It's alive! 2" and "It's Alive!: Island of the Alive" to complete this epic trilogy.

Comments from anyone who's seen this rubbish, please.

mike65

Its Alive is written and directed by the great Larry Cohen who also did B-flicks like Q The Winged Serpant and Stuff. Larry is a legend in Hollywood where his ability to crank out a handy script in double quick time is appriciated.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169540/

Mike.

Xcom2

If you did not like the first one then I guess your in for a treat with the sequel's:p I love these cheesy films and will watch just about anything.

The nice postman delivered my Kolchak:the night stalker and hardy boy's/nancy drew box set's today(guess I'm not sleeping tonight either).

LundiMardi

MobileInfantry wrote:

Okay, good god, what is the deal with these films. I mean it's a trilogy of movies, a trilogy of crap movies. And okay we've all seen bad movies. My gripe is that this one must have done well enough to let them make a second and third movie and it was also distributed by movie giants Warner Brothers.

Anyone seen them? It's basically the chronicles of a poor misfortune family to birth a mutant killer baby.

The most hilarious thing is that despite the fact it has the grace of an episode of Barney it must have done somewhat well to warrant a trilogy of movies.

For instance. One scene exits on the mother giving birth, with the staff commenting its an abnormally large baby. And then, the next scenes sees us in the delivery room, blood everywhere, staff violently murdered.

There is no evidence of the infant.

So naturally, as you do like, the police assume the baby born must be a killer mutant baby??! Sounds credible, right? Someone musta gotten the big bucks for this script. Which brings me onto the next bit:

The father is driving home the very next evening, ONE DAY LATER, and hears on the radio: "Police suspect a mutant infant is responsible for the killings at the local hospital...."

I mean jesus, the film was, I must admit, a fantastic laugh the morning after a drinking session. But as a film itself it was one of the most god awful things I've ever seen. Did it actually do well?? How was there a trilogy made?? Why does Warner Brothers have anything to do with this????

Apparently judging from the trilogy box set a babies cry will never be the same again. I dunno, I don't know many babies that sound like wild boars when crying. Maybe that's just me. And the wierd babies I know.

The mind boggles. I have yet to watch "It's alive! 2" and "It's Alive!: Island of the Alive" to complete this epic trilogy.

Comments from anyone who's seen this rubbish, please.

the way you've described it makes me want to see it!!

TerrorFirmer

I forgot to mention I watched the other two, the second one was, somehow, even worse but the third one was comic genius, the mutant babies have turned into bodybuilders and the film contains the most hilariously random exploding helicopter scene I have ever seen.

I have the box set sitting in my bed room along side the Basket Case trilogy. Some weekend I plan on watching all six films.

TerrorFirmer

Oh god, don't get me started on Basket Case...

BlitzKrieg

i'm confused...i though havoK liked bad films?

Karl Hungus

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

i'm confused...i though havoK liked bad films?

I suppose there's bad, and then there's bad?

TerrorFirmer

My issue wasn't really with the quality of the film, more with the fact that a major company actually backed this film, and that somehow, it did well enough that they were able to make a terrible sequel, that in turn must have done well enough to spawn yet another sequel. Which was also crap, but in one of those brilliant ways. Even the first film was great for a laugh, I watched it redhairedguy after a night out, it was essential viewing. The second though was just utterly worthless.

cormie

I spent weeks/months downloading this from a crappy source thinking it was something by another "L. Cohen" (Leonard). Was a bit disappointed when I saw it was some cheesy looking film. Haven't watched it yet, funny to see a thread about it as I've never heard about it other than here and downloading it:o