It Lives Again (1978)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Larry Cohen

Writer:

Larry Cohen (written by)

Release Date:

10 May 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

The 'It's Alive' Baby is back... Only now there are three of them.

Plot Keywords:

Second Part | Sequel To Cult Movie | Sequel To Cult Favorite | Monster | Terror

Cast

Frederic Forrest	...	Eugene Scott
Kathleen Lloyd	...	Jody Scott
John P. Ryan	...	Frank Davis
John Marley	...	Mr. Mallory
Andrew Duggan	...	Dr. Perry
Eddie Constantine	...	Dr. Forrest
James Dixon	...	Detective Perkins
Dennis O'Flaherty	...	Dr. Peters
Melissa Inger	...	Valerie
Victoria Jill	...	Cindy
Bobby Ramsen	...	Dr. Sando da Silva
Glenda Young	...	Lydia
Lynn Wood	...	Jody's Mother

Also Known As:

It's Alive 2: It Lives Again (USA) (DVD box title)
It's Alive II

Runtime:

91 min | France:68 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:(Banned) | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 (orginal rating) | Norway:16 (video premiere) | Australia:R | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Larco Productions

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: When John P. Ryan and Kathleen Lloyd are sitting on the couch talking after the baby shower, the boom mic is blatantly visible sticking out from under the coffee table.

Movie Connections:

Features Enter the Dragon (1973)

There's a magic about the IT'S ALIVE films I love them and can't understand why people hate them

It's Alive epitomizes the realization of the perennial fears: this could really happen and the (Frankenstien-esqe) ideal of setting something in motion that cannot be controlled or committing an act that you cannot repeal or take back. The First Its alive is truly an epic, we have Davis wanting to kill his monster-baby and evolving to the point of wanting to protect it--an adroit display of humanism. It Lives Again multiplies the fears of the first film exponentially by 3 (there are three babies) and the motives of the main characters evolve as well.

Part 3 still manages to pull on my heart-strings yet its tired-feeling. I look beyond the technical deficiencies of all three films and am captivated my their magic. Somehow fans allow themselves to watch King Kong 1933, Phantom of the Opera 1925, The Lost World 1925, and Niosferatu 1922 and three of these films don't have sound and all are shot in black and white and King Kong's effects are far out-dated. We have to look beyond a lot of things to really, to be carried away . . . too often our expectations are too high and we're not humbled in our approach to these genre pictures. A lot of us don't go to church because we feel its boring because there's nothing there . . . same with the movies . . . we have to allow ourselves to feel sometimes what's really there in order to love the films.