IT'S ALIVE (1974) - Best Horror Movie You Never Saw
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- čas přidán 6. 04. 2021
- In March of 2019, writer and director Larry Cohen passed away at the age of 82, leaving behind over sixty years of work that fans of film and television will continue to enjoy for many decades to come.
Among Cohen’s credits were some awesome genre films; for example, he wrote the Maniac Cop movies, and directed The Stuff. In this episode of the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw video series, we’re taking a look back at the first horror movie Cohen directed, the 1974 killer baby classic It's Alive… That's right, this movie is about a killer baby, and it’s great
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The sad scene involving the father finally showing compassion towards the baby when it's in pain, cold and terrified.
It honestly broke me and I was instantly having tears run down my face, the actor playing the father did a superb job in this movie. 🥺👏
I was 9 when this came out and I remember running and hiding every time the commercial came on the television it would scare me so bad. Looking back now it seems so silly, but it was pretty intense for the time.
me too, i saw this movie in the theater at 9 or 10 and it scared me so much i closed my eyes...lol
I remember and that commercial was creepy for sure. "There's only one thing wrong with the Davis baby.............."
@@bgood4449 ...it's alive. Sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it.
@@PhoenixHinds - And that cradle slowly turning around. Heard the movie was not scary at all.
@@bgood4449 The movie itself, I found ridiculous when I finally got to see it...but that commercial was VERY effective.
I SO remember seeing this as a young teen in the theater and it has stuck with me. Also, the Bernard Hermann score is terrifying
They don’t make horror movies like this anymore. Classic
"It's got your eyes, dear. No wait, those are the Doctor's. Junior, you little rascal."
You know the movie will be great when the trailer freaks you out. I was about 7 or 8 when that movie came but didn't see it till I rented it about 8 years later....always been a favorite
Back in '74, I was just five years and the commercial/trailer for this movie absolutely terrified me. Whenever it came on during a commercial break I would leave the room and cover my ears until it was done. I love the movie now, though
Bro…same. I was 5 and totally freaked out by just the ads.
@@DoubleDguitar I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one
Me too, I was 4 years old at the time and I have stark memories of that trailer. When the baby carriage turns enough to see the claw hanging out, I would cover my eyes. Crazy to think I still have that memory from such a young age, but it goes to show you how powerful imagery can be for a young child. Still haven't seen that movie to this day.
@@mcstrangelove It took me a long time to watch it, but I eventually did - great cast and surprisingly good - but those early childhood memories can still make my skin crawl!
Same here!
The images from Willard are from the 2003 remake, and the shot of the baby that's alluded to be from the It's Alive remake is actually from Brain Dead, aka Deadalive (1992).
I was about to comment the same thing. 😁
I realize it's kinda off topic but do anybody know a good place to watch newly released movies online ?
@Boone Leon lately I have been using FlixZone. You can find it on google =)
@Cullen Juan yup, been using flixzone for since april myself :D
@Cullen Juan thanks, I went there and it seems to work :) I really appreciate it !
I first saw this in my local cinema in the UK back when it was released. It totally blew me away! It has tension, dark humour and a lot of heart - especially in the way the family is depicted: ordinary suburban folks thrown into turmoil. Like you, I would recommend this and, although they lack the punch of the original, it's sequels.
Is there a British version? Similar , where the baby doesn't want to be born and from.the baby's eye view it scurries around bumping folk off whilst breathing heavily ..😅😅
Saw it and loved it. Classic 70s horror.
Yup!!👍
I watched this movie when I was single digits old and I had nightmares for YEARS even after I forgot about watching movie 😂
My first film I was only 11yrs old horrifying!!
I was born in 72 and watched it before 1980. This is the only movie that terrified me as a child. There is no way I should have been watching that at my age. However, thanks to this movie, I was able to watch all Friday the 13ths, Elm Streets etc. with ease. That wasn't easy to do as a young child back then. I never forgot the name "It's Alive" since. Nor have I watched it ever again even though I own them.😂
I remember seeing this for rent when I was 7 or 8 in the mid eighties.Just the VHS cover scared me.The big claw hanging out of the crib instantly drew me in.Of course back then you could get away with renting most horror movies as a kid.The monster baby going from crying into this hideous scream got me every time.
I still remember the genius campaign for the theatrical (re)-release. Instead of still pictures and posters there were only black sheets of papier with alledged quotes and citations from shocked previous audiences. It was pure showmanship, but 9 year old me totally fell for it.
The trailers for Paranormal Activity (showing only the audience reacting to the movie), were obiously inspired by the It´s Alive campaign.
I'll never forget sneaking into the living room, turning on the TV to watch some horror movies in the middle of the night, but instead getting this. I almost got caught I laughed so loud at that ridiculous baby scuttling around killing people!
I saw It's Alive in the theater at 6 years old and it left me completely wrecked. One of the all-time creepiest from my childhood. I have NEVER gone back to watch it a second time. This review will be the first time I've revisited the film in any fashion. I feel like this is the best way to break loose from the hold it's had over me for over 40 years! 🤣🤣
Thanks for another great review. Knowing now that it stars John P. Ryan, it's definitely time to watch it again. I'm ready! lol
The poster for this thing was diabolically effective. It scared the crap out of me when I was a little boy.
I remember this back in the 80's. I loved it! Haven't watched them since though.
My mom.and I saw this on USA Network in the late 80s. We loved it.
Have always loved this movie....1970s greatness!!
The Birth-Scene was actually included in the Bravo-network's 'Top 100 Scariest Movie Moments' list. That was actually how I came to discover this film.
I'll never forget nodding off on the couch and then waking up in the middle of the night with this starting on TNT's Something Weird block. This movie was alternately creepy and hilarious at the same time! And it really does work! Seeing it half-asleep really ramped up the horror of it. Later, I bought It's Alive and It Lives Again and watched them wide awake. They're both really good flicks. Really creepy stuff! I never saw the third film, but I've always wondered what they could have done with one where the kids are adults. Really messed up potential there.
The great John P. Ryan. Most memorable to me for his role in the awesome "Runaway Train".
A very tender, heartfelt, ultimately tragic film that raises all sorts of moral conundrums.
That one shot where they showed the close-up of the baby's bloody fangs munching down scared me out of my mind.
We had the poster for the movie in the Band house back in the 1970's. A baby carriage with a hoof foot hanging out as I recall.
Babies are some of the most frightening beings of all. I don't need this film to be stricken with fear at the sight or even the idea of them.
I so do love drama in film.
Hearing babies laugh gives me the heebie jeebies.
The it’s alive movies went on Brazilian tv late in the nights of Saturday during the 80’s. So great! Really fun to watch. Never watched them after though.
The commercials for this with the baby carriage and the claw or whatever it was hanging out of it at the end TERRIFIED me as a kid...over and over on television!
Mutant Child, killer Baby,
Homicidal Infant -
Saw this in theaters with a couple friends.
For kind of a strange subject, the actors take it seriously and really do a real good job.
I saw it with a movie called Black Christmas.
The movie's really good despite the idea.
7:27
*talks about the original Willard*
*uses a screenshot from the remake*
It had a short lived 1974 release..the re-release in '77 was a hit for Warners
My dad took my brother and I to the drive-in to see this during its 1977 re-release. I was 9 and the movie scared the crap out of me and my brother.
Loved this as a kid. Still have all three tapes.
I was 5 when this came out still ❤ it to this day it's alive rocks!!!!
This is a movie alot of kids were talking about when I was in the 6th grade the kids liked it it was scarry I don't think people had ever seen anything like it as far as a baby being a monster and the focus of the horror
I was born in 1954 at the hospital where this was filmed. It's ow a charter school. (Victory Hospital, North Hollywood, CA). Also I had a tonsilectomy operation there, in 1961.
My brother saw this film when he was underage, somehow he got into the theater. He talked about this film for years!
I saw this on a sunday afternoon show that used to show horror movies in the early 90s when i was like 8.
My teenage self took a date to the cinema to see this back in the seventies.
It was on a double bill with 'Flesh Gordon'.
She wasn't happy.
I just watched this again like 3 days ago, when I was little I use to call the movie BABY MONSTER.
This one broke me. Barely a teen when this came out. Hated walking home by myself at night for years….
Saw it when I was 8. It was released in the summer, i rode my bike over to the theater by myself one afternoon to catch the 1:00 showing, there was only like 2 other people in the entire theater. I made it about 80% through the film but at one point I could just feel that mutant baby crawling up the aisles, comin' for me! I ran outside, grabbed my bike and zipped to the center of the almost empty parking lot so I could see all around me, make sure I could see it coming! Lol!
I rode home but I only lived a block from the local hospital, you could see it from my front yard, which was full of bushes - I didnt feel any safer! That fear lasted for a while, then of course years later I watched it and laughed through half of it but a few scenes still sparked that old fear - the milk running out of the truck, then blood mixing in with it! I never forgot its crying scream, good stuff!
Classic drive-in horror film with enough cheese for everyone!
John P Ryan is awesome in any film he's in!
I watched it as a 6 year old, it actually made me sad even though i had watched a bunch of gore horror movies and was the kind of kid who always got in trouble in school, i was never an emotional kid but this scene made me feel related to how i was treated and how i felt i should've been treated to prevent all the troubles i was causing.
We watched this movie in middle school about 40 years ago during an assembly!
Still have this on VHS,scary stuff
Man you sparked my curiosity, I'm watching it right now
I used to have nightmares after watching the original. Man I was terrified.
Oh,i saw this movie, as a kid and it scare the hell out of me.🍼
God i love this channel!!! Keep pumping them out!!
The USA Network used to used to show It's Alive all the time. This was sometimes on NIghtFlight(not 100% sure), other times it was on Commander USA's Groovie Movies. Old school USA Network was pretty awesome.
If your watching this in November 2023, like me, CZcams has the this movie to watch for free, and it is worth watching too! I saw this in theaters as a kid, I remember it was late 1970s, because we saw the original and then also saw It's Alive 2: It's Alive Again in 1978! It was sort of a double feature! My mom loved horror movies, and used to bring me and my older brothers to see movies during the summer, and sometimes after school! Also I recently, just a few days ago, watched the original on here, then I found the second one on another streaming service, so I watched them both! But I couldn't remember if there was a 3rd one or not, but I just looked and found that one as well, where I saw the 2nd one, it also has the remake, which i have never seen! So I guess I will go watch at least the 3rd one!
Bernard Herrmann scored this film!?! Now I definitely have to see it!
I saw this back in the day, it was awesome!
I watched this movie the night my son was born! Must have been nuts.
Lol I would have watched this on my lunch break had it been in my subscription feed like it should have been, CZcams.
Watching it before bed, and just as happy though!
Saw this movie when I was 12, haunted me for a long time.
I remember seeing this at the videostore in the 90's. Now I regret that I never watched it!
Watched all 3 movies + the remake of the first one. Good stuff. :)
I was 11 years old saw this movie 🎥 In Soledad California theater 🎭. I remember those days at 9 years old was watching horror movies In Soledad theater 🎭. Alway with my younger brother
Great movie. So much fun and so u unusual and twisted. A real original.
That's the principal from 3 O' Clock High it was so classic when he yelled "don't fuck this up Mitchell!" LOL
I saw it and it lives 2. Great to see a review finally
Watched this on MonsterVision when I was a kid, I was peeping over the covers praying Joe Bob Briggs would come back on and say something funny so I wasn't so scared lol
I would love some more recommendations like this.
Always wanted to see these
3:04 Great Moments.
i was 8 or 9 years old when i watched this movie.. scared the crap out of me.. still creepy at 52 years lol
Loved this movie way back when,kids still creepy me out
Just watched this last weekend.
I saw it, in 1976, when it was re-released, at the tender age of 11. Scared the SHIT out of me!
Larry Cohen doesn't get the popularity and respect he deserves; his stuff is great!
As for this film specifically; yeah, the fact that the movie plays it straight works in its' favor. Cohen was great at taking "silly" premises and giving them depth.
BTW, if you like Cohen's stuff, I would like to recommend "God Told Me To", in which a police officer investigates a series of seemingly random murders in which the killer says "God Told Me To" before committing suicide.
I barely remember anything from the flick but I know for a fact my dad had a copy. Never forget the silly box for part 3 in the video store.
I've seen it multiple times, my man.
Actually, I did see it. On my fourteenth birthday(in '74), my Mom took myself and, a bunch of my friends to see this, as that's what I wanted to do. I recall thinking it hilarious, though I haven't seen it, since. I'll have to re-watch.
The one film you should never watch alone.
ACKTUALLY...I have seen this. Back in the 90's.
I will never forget seeing the trailer which played on late-night tv. It showed no images from the film and we see only the white bassinet with the mutated hand hanging over the edge. Then we get the announcer saying: There's something wrong with the Davis baby. This followed the chilling cry. This was one of the trailers that scared the hell out of me. The other two were the ones for Magic and Suspiria. I remember being disappointed when I finally got to see it, probably because they did not show enough of the baby. The Bernard Herrmann score is quite good. I'm glad have the soundtrack to both films, although another composer embellished the themes he used in the first film. I have never heard how they got Herrmann to score the film. He could be very difficult to work with and I try to imagine someone pitching the idea of scoring a film about a mutant baby.
My dad worked part time in a theater, so I saw so many movies (some with my mom like Black Caesar and Hell Up In Harlem, Blacula movies), but this one was just my dad sitting me and my cousins in theater, saying behave and watch the movie. He always got compliments on how well behaved we were and didn't talk during movies, but the nightmares from some of these movies lol.
My first memories of low budget horror movies was this and Alligator then later Attack of the killer tomatoes and I thought that was very amusing when I was 7 or 8. I have to admit Alive did scare me but I was even younger than 7 or 8 when I saw it. This and the sequel were on TCM underground last night.
I saw this in the theater way back when, and I thought it was good....oh to be 15 yrs old again....
"... the least frightening thing in the world - an infant..."
Speak for yourself! 😖
Love this one, a little too much
I was 10 years old in 1974 , Soledad theater California, the days you didn't have age limit,
I still remember the milkman scene...the spilled milk getting mixed with his blood...
Saw it when I was 12 on tv, scared the shit outta me.
I saw It's Alive as a B movie along with Don't look Now in the late 70's.
I never seen this movie because i haven't had the chance to do so. but I remember as a kid,,I guess at age 7 watching TV and seeing the trailer for its release as they show the baby carriage with nice music then showing the babies claw and that scream let me know. No way in he11 was my 7 year old self gonna watch this. It freaked me out. LOL
Hope to see it one day. It looks good but then all 70;s movies were good.
The 3rd movie in this series is hilarious. Michael Moriarity stars as the proto Al Bundy shoe salesman.
This movie was underrated loved it
Got to find this flic :D
I saw this on Monstervision TNT with Joe Bob Briggs!
I saw it, and I loved it.
What a great movie!
My aunt snuck myself and my older cousin I to the drive in movie theatre during the re-release in 80-82?
I was 2 to 4 years old .
WTF Aunt Glinda
All I remembered was the milk man scene and no one believed I really saw it, no one knew it from my description.
Making it harder to find was that I thought it was a new movie in the 80s - I finally figured it out about 7 years ago and found the scene again .
Good times.
I loved this movie.
I saw it in my local cinema in 74.Early FX work from Rick Baker.
This movie scared the crap of me as a kid. I saw it at a drive-in. Then we got cats and I would always wonder if it was an It's Alive baby moving under my bed instead of a cat. Then I saw it's sequel at a high school lockin and that scared me too but not as much as the first one.
Never saw? I saw it a lot. We used to rent it often or watch it on TV
When you said the baby killed everyone, I was surprised