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WYRD WAR PRESENTS IT’S ALIVE
1974
Director
Larry Cohen
Starring
John P. Ryan
Sharon Farrell
Andrew Duggan
Runtime
91 minutes
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Larry Cohen’s subversive classic IT’S ALIVE, universally panned by critics and hampered by a misfired theatrical release, is an unexpectedly riveting body horror drama disguised as a campy monster flick that spawned two truly campy sequels, countless ripoffs and endures as an unlikely PG rated cornerstone of topical 70s exploitation horror.
Acclaimed character actor John P. Ryan makes a rare leading appearance as Frank Davis who together with his wife Lenore, played by genre favorite Sharon Farrell, must reckon with the outrageous reality that their second child has been born a clawed murderous mutant that immediately escapes the maternity ward into the backyards, basements and storm drains of Los Angeles. Nodding to generational Thalidomide trauma and a deepening mistrust of big pharma, Larry Cohen takes a wild swing at environmental pollution and medical paranoia that gets more entertaining with age.
See the film critics called "stomach-churning,” “imbecilic,” “primitive,” “stodgy” and “drenched in supreme silliness.” IT’S ALIVE…again!
Larry Cohen’s subversive classic IT’S ALIVE, universally panned by critics and hampered by a misfired theatrical release, is an unexpectedly riveting body horror drama disguised as a campy monster flick that spawned two truly campy sequels, countless ripoffs and endures as an unlikely PG rated cornerstone of topical 70s exploitation horror.
Acclaimed character actor John P. Ryan makes a rare leading appearance as Frank Davis who together with his wife Lenore, played by genre favorite Sharon Farrell, must reckon with the outrageous reality that their second child has been born a clawed murderous mutant that immediately escapes the maternity ward into the backyards, basements and storm drains of Los Angeles. Nodding to generational Thalidomide trauma and a deepening mistrust of big pharma, Larry Cohen takes a wild swing at environmental pollution and medical paranoia that gets more entertaining with age.
See the film critics called "stomach-churning,” “imbecilic,” “primitive,” “stodgy” and “drenched in supreme silliness.” IT’S ALIVE…again!