It Lives Again

[Gluttony]

After the original It's Alive became one of my favorite films, the sequels were at the top of the chopping block for my viewing list. I wasn't sure what to expect from the varying reviews, but I still had high hopes for both films.

Cohen's second foray into the killer baby genre isn't as good as the original, but the movie is still a decent continuation to the series. There's more babies, more to the human controversy, and a bundle of new characters as well as a few old ones.

Cohen plays a rather tender card in this entry, ending the first film concluding the baby wasn't bad, but at the end of this movie, it depends on the characters you side with. People switch opinions frequently and the changes are never as empowering as Ryan's in the original. The movie still manages to create a humaneness for the monsters, but the ending goes back on the original's events.

Ryan returns in an important role, he doesn stick around, but the his speech near the beginning is poignant and lasts until his enigmatic end. Sympathy after this point is rather hard to give because Ryan was the proof of the innocence still stuck inside them.

There's not much action this time around, some dead bodies and the babies are seen better this time around, but that doesn't work for this sequel. Several times, I wish the "Alive" could have stayed under the shadows... it's what made the first one scary.

The script does branch from the boundaries set before it, but the characters actually put in the full force of this entry. The new parents are well acted and convey the differing points and criticisms well. the story is well thought out, but the pacing could've been worked on and the editing done a little tighter.

All in all, this is a decent horror movie. One that dares to abolish and manipulate the peripheries of its cage. But the movie is flawed.

6/10

[countchocula]

I caught this flick on MonsterVision years ago, and if not for the almighty Joe Bob Briggs, I would have conked out halfway through. A stale, paint-by-numbers retread of the original.

[Gluttony]

You might want to try watching it again. Your comments are acceptable criticism, but the sequel isn't a paint-by-the-numbers retake on the original. The plot expands the movie satisfyingly and the movie isn't as slow asmost have made it out to believe.

I say that if you get the chance, you should see it again. Of course, that's just me. I'm sure there are plenty of movies that I should do that with too.

[blacksnake]

It Lives Again, is a sequel to the 1974 cult horror film It's Alive!. In the first film we meet Frank, and Lenore Davies, who end up having a monster baby that runs around town killing people. In this film a new couple named Eugene, and Jody Scott. They have a party celebrating Jody's pregnancy and Frank Davies, shows up having not known them but to tell them about his story about the monster child and to just give them a warning. While at the hospital police are lined up everywhere with guns but Frank, escapes them out aboard the back of a truck with a doctor and nurses where the baby is born. The baby does turn out being a monster like Frank's baby and it is taken to a place with two other monster babies that are under scientific testing. All three babies end up escaping into the town and killing people around them and the Scott couple look for their baby not knowing which one is theirs. This sequel came out four years after the original It's Alive! film and was followed by a third film in the series nine years later. This film is very similar to the first one but it still kept my interest the whole time. I'm now curious to see the third film in the series which you will probably see a review of on this site soon. The writer and director of this film Larry Cohen, also wrote and directed the film It's Alive! film as well as the third one which is titled It's Alive 3: Island Of The Alive. Larry Cohen, has written the new film Phone Booth, about a man who answers a pay phone and is told if he moves he will be shot by a sniper. The film was supposed to be released on November 15, 2002 but was postponed due to the sniper attacks in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, Virginia. The film will now be released on February 15, 2003. Larry Cohen, has also wrote another film called Cellular, which is rumoured to be released in 2004.