Bijou Phillips Movie:

		List Price: $24.98		Label: First Look Pictures Salesrank: 24442 Released: October 6, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: Unrated Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: 10/06/2009 Rating: Ur

It's Alive Reviews:
Yet Another Unnecessary 70s Horror Remake
2009-12-13 - I'll make my review brief as there's not much to say about the 2008 version of "It's Alive," except that it is yet another unnecessary remake of the 70s horror film. Also, I might add that the new film is not entertaining (in whatever way you might define it), and not definitely scary.

Bijou Phillips is a grad student Lenore Harker taking a break because she is expecting a baby. She is happy to live with her loving boyfriend Frank Davis (James Murray) and his younger brother Chris (Raphaël Coleman). But strange things start to happen at the hospital where the baby Daniel was born and her home too, and everything points to the obvious conclusion that most viewers know before the film begins.

I said "strange," but the fact is it is much worse than just "strange," involving several dead bodies. However, the film (directed by Josef Rusnak best known for his "The Thirteenth Floor") completely fails to generate tension. The film is hardly scary and death scenes are all bland and dull. It doesn't even have a campy charm that makes some horror movies entertaining. Its 80 minute running time feels very long.


WORSE than I thought it would be
2009-11-15 - If You've seen the Trailer....You've seen the whole Flick......The original was a great Exploitatiuon classic...this,,,,a waste of Film and Your time.

It's Alive
2009-11-10 - I enjoyED THIS MOVIE. i AN SURE OTHERS WILL IF THEY LIKE HORROR MOVIES,

Bad remake
2009-11-02 - I thought the original was okay. I could barely make it all the way through this one. Maybe I've developed some taste in movies since I saw the original. :-)

IT's ALIVE..............(almost)
2009-11-01 - It's Alive the direct to video remake of the shlocky Larry Cohen movie from the 70's is not better or worse than the original but it's certainly no better. The parents in the new version are younger but differs from the original in that the father in the older film was the monster babys protector. Another change from the prior film is the baby in the original looked like a monster while this baby looks like a normal infant until it opens its mouth and has the teeth of a barracuda. Bijou Phillips plays mommy and she acts like an airhead and can't even read her lines not sounding like she was reading directions off a box of brownie mix. And as the movie progresses she seems more over-psychotic than over-protective. She even enjoys looking at her mutilated nipple from breast-feeding her bouncing, hungry baby boy.

The movie then spends most of the time finding some lame excuse for visitors to the house only to end up as snacks. Two of the munchables are an idiot of a sherrif and his female deputy. The sherrif is convinced something wrong is happenening at the house and when he and his deputy arrive at the house the power is out-and when the deputy nervously asks "should I call for back-up?" the genius sherrif says, "Naw let's just look around for a bit". BINGO!- Dinner Time.

As for blood and gore, it seems tame for an un-rated movie. If you blink you miss it. So you haven't missed anything if you miss this.

The creative team missed a golden opportunity for at least a cheap laugh. The baby's name is Daniel.......wouldn't it have better to call the child IT? After all......IT'S ALIVE!