{"id":28115,"date":"2018-05-21T04:03:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T08:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=28115"},"modified":"2018-05-21T04:03:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T08:03:14","slug":"its-alive-trilogy-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/21\/its-alive-trilogy-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Alive Trilogy [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Larry Cohen\u2019s horror film \u201cIt\u2019s Alive\u201d didn\u2019t always get the respect it deserved. While it\u2019s certainly a seventies shock horror film about a mutant baby, it\u2019s also about fear of genetic and birth defects, the question of abortion, and the idea of euthanasia in children. It thrives on being a horror cult classic, but it\u2019s also a socially relevant movie that pounces on a lot of important issues. Larry Cohen\u2019s classic film gets a wonderful treatment from the folks at Scream Factory with all three \u201cIt\u2019s Alive\u201d films on one box set, and it\u2019s a collector\u2019s set that\u2019s impossible to pass up.<\/p>\n

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Cohen\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s Alive\u201d is an entertaining horror drama about Frank and Lenore, a couple going on to their second child. On the way to their hospital Lenore gives birth to what happens to be a ravenous mutant baby. The baby massacres the doctors and nurses, and escapes the hospital making its way across the city, leaving a wake of bodies in its path. Though Frank and Lenore are convinced the baby has to die, they aide in hunting it down and realize it\u2019s merely the product of experimental birth control. While I\u2019m not a fan of the anti-contraceptive message, it\u2019s at least a top notch monster movie with solid performances, and a gut wrenching finale; there\u2019s also the great effects by Rick Baker, who is behind a lot of the gore and monster effects.<\/p>\n

And it has Bernard Hermann scoring, of all people. The baby from \u201cIt\u2019s Alive\u201d lives! Again! In \u201cIt Lives Again!\u201d Cohen brings us not one but three mutant monster babies. But this time they\u2019re more a response to the pollution of the environment than anything else. They begin to reproduce and now it\u2019s up to a secret organization and Frank, the dad of the original mutant baby to hunt down the trio of babies. But things aren\u2019t completely as they seem as the as Frank seems intent on helping them along with a group of covert scientists that hope to domesticate and help the mutant babies from growing up to be monsters. It\u2019s a road trip horror film\/parental nightmare like the former film that takes a while to get going but it\u2019s an okay follow up nevertheless.<\/p>\n

Last but not least \u201cIt\u2019s Alive III: Island of the Alive\u201d finds two new parents, Stephen and Ellen, who have spawned a new mutant child. The government is now implementing death squads to find and eliminate the mutant children around the world. With the parents leaving their child in an island where the mutants are abandoned, things get worse when the full grown mutants want back in to society. If you can appreciate the silliness that ensues with the giant mutant babies, \u201cIsland of the Alive\u201d might prove to be a fun monster movie and capper to Larry Cohen\u2019s mutant baby saga. I like it for being so ridiculous and it admittedly has sentimental value as I fondly remember watching it on late night cable back in the nineties.<\/p>\n

The Blu-Rays come packed with new transfers and reversible cover art. On Disc One there\u2019s an audio commentary by writer and producer Larry Cohen. There\u2019s the eighteen minute \u201cCohen\u2019s Alive: Looking Back at the It\u2019s Alive Films\u201d which features interviews with Cohen, producer Paul Kurta, actors James Dixon, Michael Moriarty, Lauren Landon, cinematographer Daniel Pearl and historians\/journalists John Burligame, FX Feeney. \u201cIt\u2019s Alive at the Nuart: The 40th Anniversary Screening\u201d is a thirteen minute Q&A set on the special screening.<\/p>\n

There are Radio Spots, TV Spots, the Theatrical Trailer, and a Still Gallery. The disc for \u201cIt Lives Again\u201d features an audio commentary with writer and producer Larry Cohen. There\u2019s also the original trailer, and a still gallery. The disc for \u201cIt\u2019s Alive III\u201d features an audio commentary with writer\/producer and director Larry Cohen. There\u2019s also a ten minute interview with Special Effects Makeup Designer Steve Neill, who discusses his work on the film, working with Rick Baker and Larry Cohen, and his ideas on evolving the mutants from the first film. Finally there\u2019s the original trailer and a Still Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Larry Cohen\u2019s horror film \u201cIt\u2019s Alive\u201d didn\u2019t always get the respect it deserved. While it\u2019s certainly a seventies shock horror film about a mutant baby, it\u2019s also about fear of genetic and birth defects, the question of abortion, and the idea of euthanasia in children. It thrives on being a horror cult classic, but it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[246,477,701,906,1087],"class_list":["post-28115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","category-movie-reviews","tag-cult","tag-horror","tag-mutants","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28117,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28115\/revisions\/28117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}