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It's Alive

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It's Alive	label	It's Alive
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It's Alive	comment	In this 1974 horror film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen, diaper rash... turns into diaper rage.Los Angeles PR executive Frank Davis (John P. Ryan) and his wife Lenore (Sharon Farrell) are overjoyed at the imminent arrival of their second child. Unfortunately, their baby... comes out a little odd. And it turns out to have a nasty habit of killing when it's scared. Which is pretty much all the time.Followed by two sequels, It Lives Again (1978) and It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive (1987), as well as a very poorly-regarded 2008 remake.Not to be confused with the show about fermentation on Bon AppÃ©tit.
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It's Alive / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
It's Alive / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The novelization provides background as to why the baby turned out so screwed up (Lenore had been using experimental fertility drugs shortly after she stopped taking birth control pills).
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It's Alive / int_289f1260	type	Impending Doom P.O.V.
It's Alive / int_289f1260	comment	Impending Doom P.O.V.: Quite a few scenes are shot partially from the baby's point of view. It has double vision, probably because it's still learning to process information from its eyes.
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It's Alive / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
It's Alive / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Frank manages to find an emotional connection with the baby, but the police kill it minutes later. Not to mention his wife has been driven insane due to the whole ordeal, and another mutant baby has been reported born in Seattle.
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It's Alive / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
It's Alive / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Frank reappears in the sequel trying to atone for his actions in the first film by helping other parents of mutant children, though unfortunately this results in a Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome about halfway through.
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It's Alive / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
It's Alive / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Mallory in the second film. Sure, killing babies might be harsh in principle, but the fact remains that the mutant infants are undeniably dangerous and unpredictable.
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It's Alive / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
It's Alive / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The infant, whose homicidal rampage turns out to be driven by birth trauma and separation anxiety, and who longs only to be reunited with his family.
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It's Alive / int_a5a6d7b3	type	Mutants
It's Alive / int_a5a6d7b3	comment	Mutants: The infant is born with multiple abnormalities, including fangs, claws, and apparently the ability to move about despite being a newborn infant — all of which make it very dangerous when upset, as newborns tend to be immediately after birth. These mutations seem to have been caused by an experimental fertility drug given to the mother, a la thalidomide.
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It's Alive / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
It's Alive / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible/Fetus Terrible: The entire premise of the series, the mutant babies are extremely deadly and hostile from the second they're born, and will viciously attack anyone they see as a threat... which is basically everyone.
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It's Alive / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
It's Alive / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Frank, waiting in the hospital hallway, sees an intern emerge from the delivery room... and collapse to the floor.
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It's Alive / int_b9882b33	type	Bizarre Baby Boom
It's Alive / int_b9882b33	comment	Bizarre Baby Boom: At the end of the film, Frank learns that another mutant has been born in Seattle. The sequel, It Lives Again, picks up this plot thread, as the corporation that produces the fertility drug tries to cover up the resulting mutant baby boom.
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It's Alive / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
It's Alive / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: The first two films received them: Richard Woodley novelized Itâ€™s Alive while actor James Dixon, a Larry Cohen regular who played Lt. Perkins in the Itâ€™s Alive trilogy in addition to co-writing Cohenâ€™s A Return to Salemâ€™s Lot, novelized It Lives Again.
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It's Alive / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
It's Alive / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The film takes its title from the famous line in the 1931 Frankenstein, and both that film and the original novel are discussed by Frank. Frank impersonates Walter Brennan's Red River character while driving with his wife and son at the beginning.
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It's Alive / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
It's Alive / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: The company behind the fertility drugs causing the mutation wants to cover it up, and orders the babies terminated so they won't be held liable.
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It's Alive / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
It's Alive / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Frank and his wife give each other this exchange in regards to the infant. He wanted to kill it, while she wanted to hide it.
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It's Alive / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
It's Alive / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: While Frank is unscrewing a basement light bulb to change it, something emerges from behind him and touches his shoulder. It's a large papier-mÃ¢chÃ© doll tumbling from a shelf.
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It's Alive / int_efbb5f9c	type	Down L.A. Drain
It's Alive / int_efbb5f9c	comment	Down L.A. Drain: Where the baby is tracked at the film's climax.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

It's Alive	hasFeature	Bizarre Baby Boom / int_b9acfa7f
It's Alive	hasFeature	Down L.A. Drain / int_b9acfa7f
It's Alive	hasFeature	Fetus Terrible / int_b9acfa7f
Its Alive	seeAlso	It's Alive
It's Alive	hasFeature	Mutant Media / int_b9acfa7f
It's Alive	hasFeature	Mutants / int_b9acfa7f
100 Scariest Movie Moments	seeAlso	It's Alive
It's Alive	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Horror / int_b9acfa7f

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