Lack of good storyline.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I was too young to see this when it came out but vividly remember the ads and was very intrigued at the time. I'm so glad it was R-Rated and had to wait to see it. It's one of the worst horror movies ever! The acting was truly awful. The story is pathetic in every way, from the characters, to the plot development and especially the thrill factor. There's zero suspense, very little gore and even the attack scenes didn't raise my pulse one beat. It also completely lacked the proper amount of "cheese" for a good 'B' Film. Don't waste the 91 minutes of your life on this piece of junk. There are absolutely no redeeming qualities about this movie whatsoever!

If you haven't read the synopsis, or previous reviews it seems customary to give you some summary. The movie revolves around a couple who have given birth to a murderous monstrosity. In in the initial stages of the movie, this couple (especially the father) do everything they can to distance themselves from the creature they have created and even participate in the hunt to track and destroy it, but eventually attitudes change.I found this to be better than I expected and very much above the average for a early 70s B-horror movie. I recently wrote a review on another film where I stated that it had failed the "Val Lewton Test" to me. In other words, had you removed the monster's scenes from the movie, what you would have had left was not a very effective movie at all. This movie is almost the polar opposite. What I found was a fairly effective chiller, with some moments of real tension built up, but ultimately I kept being pulled out of the experience by the ridiculousness of a "killer baby" scenario that wasn't helped along any by the awful hokey creature effects on the baby itself. Each time I found myself being absorbed into the movie, I was yanked away by cheap effects and gags that I was never quite sure where being played for laughs, or just the work of a budget not good enough to achieve the desired effect.If you can forgive the bad effects, though, what's left is actually pretty good. John Ryan is excellent as the father struggling with the emotions of this situation he's been thrust in, and the outcasting from society that results. Sharon Farrell shines in the birth scene as a mother facing most parent's worst nightmare of a difficult birth. As the movie progresses, she begins to lose her grip on sanity and comes off a little bit Renfield.The movie has a lot to say about society. We have the boss playing as if he cares about his employee's family turbulence, while secretly shoving him out the door to avoid scandal. In the same manner, then nurse under the guise of caring for the mother, while secretly planning to exploit them for writing material. We see the ways that society shuns those who birth deformities as once upon a time society shunned those who birthed disabled children (maybe not so once upon a time?).Of course, there are doctors who want to examine and study the child. The pharmacy companies want to make it go away to avoid any potential bad publicity. The authorities just want to massacre it, which I found realistically odd. I mean, not to get to technical, but even the worst mass murderers get a trial, right? Then a baby with no knowledge of the evil of what it's doing just gets slaughtered? Perhaps, I'm putting way too much thought into that.In the end, if you like 70s b-horror, then by all means give this one a shot. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

All is happy in the Davis household as parents John P. Ryan and Sharon Farrell are expecting the arrival of a new baby. But after a difficult labor Farrell gives birth to something out of Alien. It kills the delivery team in the hospital leaving mother alive, but shattered beyond belief and not knowing really what's going on. A beautiful Bernard Hermann score is really wasted on a cheap horror exploitation flick that spawned to sequels itself. Although Farrell as the mother should by all accounts be the protective one even though this thing which we never quite see, it is Davis as the father who tries to save it in the end. Even though Davis is only the father in the sense that Joseph is the listed father on the birth certificate in the Nazareth Hall of Records. In fact we're never really sure what caused Farrell to bring this into the world.Fans of gory horror films will love It's Alive, not sure how others will take it.

For a movie about a killer mutant freak child, this is pretty goddamn boring. Though the premise seems very fun and interesting, the execution is about as stale and disappointing as movies get. To me, the most bothersome thing about this horror flick was that there was just no suspense at all. Just, none. Okay, not entirely true, the milkman scene was pretty effective, but that's about one minute of the movie. All the rest is kind of a chore to sit through really, the charm of characters we've barely seen before and barely care about getting killed off-screen kinda escapes me. Even compared with the rather similar and also quite flawed "Basket Case", this just doesn't hold up. At least "Basket Case" had a cool puppet and some hilarious state-of-the-art stop motion effects, this one just has an okayish puppet and no effects. I just couldn't get into this movie at all, though I must admit the climax well, wasn't as bad as the rest I guess. I also liked the lead actor, who's about the only thing that made me keep watching. Good idea, weak movie, that about sums it up for me.