Girls, You Have GOT To See This One!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              OK, so, last Saturday I told David I wanted to watch something "fun."  You know, where you check your brain in at the door.  He had recorded "It's Alive," which I had heard of but never seen, and let me tell you it is a BAD movie.  Not fun bad, not as humorless as "The Monolith Monsters," but it has to be seen to be believed.

                                 First, writer-director Larry Cohen, whose only known film work this was--and when you see it, the reason will become clear--I feel was out to do some comic riff on Ira Levin's "Rosemary's Baby," which was a hot property several years back, then.

                                  So, he comes up with this story, set in Los Angeles--where John P. Ryan and Sharon Farrell play a couple, Frank and Lenore Davies, who give birth to a mutant baby.  Before I go further, let me say that John P. Ryan was a lifelong member of the Actors' Studio.  Many luminaries were, but what good did it do him?  Sharon Farrell, who plays his wife, Lenore Davies, when young, started out as a dancer in ABT.  Obviously, she did not make it, but ending up here?  Be careful, with a career in the arts, boys and girls!   You never know where it is going to take you.

                                     The only actors of any note in this crap, is Andrew Duggan, and Guy Stockwell, the less talented brother of Dean Stockwell.

                                      But, the mutant baby!  It steals the show!

                                     To believe this story, it must be accepted the thing, which weighs 11 pounds, and is a boy--pretty large for a baby, but not a human--can just leap out of the vagina, never mind cutting the umbilical cord, has teeth and claws, and devours everyone on sight in the delivery room.  It can pull toys a child his size would never be able to, and you have to see the scene where the baby is hiding in the bushes, and you can see the tech moving the wire!

                                       Apparently, this baby can move faster than the adults can!  They are afraid it will go into the LA sewage system, where it will emerge from to kill anyone.  During the course of all this, it is discovered that the baby has been sequestered at the Davies house, because Lenore has been bonding with it, feeding it and tending to it.  In fact, it bonds to all the Lenore family!  So, they rush to the sewage system, and, in a scene right out of "THEM!," (visually, that is), Frank and a doctor plead with authorities not to kill the infant, who has feelings, and a doctor wants to study it.  But, in a moment straight out of today, trigger happy cops open fire, killing the doctor and the infant.

                                             But, in an ending straight out of 1959's "The Giant Behemoth," the news broadcasts that a new mutant baby has been born--in Seattle.  These embryos know their prime cities, I will tell you that!

Isn't this baby cute?

I just have to end this post with Buzz Clifford's "Baby Sittin' Boogie!"