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Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Paul Andrews It's Alive is set in New Mexico where college student Lenore Harker (Bijou Phillips) & her boyfriend Frank Davis (James Murray) are expecting a baby boy, while taking a shower Lenore feels labour pains & know's that she is going to give birth. Frank rushes her to the hospital where Lenore is taken into the delivery room, some time later an orderly enters the delivery room & finds four of the medical team dead having been brutally torn to pieces while Lenore & her baby boy seem unhurt. The cops have no clues & Sergeant Perkins (Owen Teale) has no leads except Lenore who was under anaesthetic at the time, Lenore & Frank with their newborn baby son Daniel are allowed to go home but there's something not quite right with the young baby. Lenore finds Daniel eating dead animals & when she finds a dead body torn to pieces Lenore know's there's only one explanation but how could a young baby boy be a vicious killer...Directed by Josef Rusnak this is a remake of the Larry Cohen written, produced & directed horror film It's Alive (1974) which was a considerable success at the time of release & spawned two sequels of it's own as well as this remake which Cohen himself co-wrote. I personally have no problems with remakes at all, the original film still exists so I don't see any issue whatsoever, while the original It's Alive was a good solid horror film that had a little bit of wit, black humour & intelligence the It's Alive remake is more bland but I did still quite like it for what it was. Predictable to appease to the teen horror film crowd the mother & father in this remake are pretty young teens rather than grown adults as in the original but you could say that the script deals with the pressures & problems of young parents which is a much, much bigger issue now in 2010 than it was back in 1974 so in a way the script has just been adjusted for a new generation & a new society where it's actually very relevant, issues of blind maternal love, abortion, premature birth & the emotional effects of caring for a newborn baby are touched upon but are never gone into with any great depth or intelligence. At only 80 minutes long It's Alive is short, very short & not that much happens really although it does have a few nice moments & the somewhat downbeat choice of ending was surprising although also welcome. The first twenty five minutes follows the original quite closely as a woman gives birth to a mutant baby that kills the medical team but instead of having the baby go on the run & being hunted down the mother tries to protect it & cover up for it's crimes in a decent twist on the original, having said that surely anyone finding their newborn baby eating dead animals & killing people would have a hard time loving it & protecting like Lenore does here.Available in both 'R' rated & 'Unrated' versions I saw the Unrated cut which is gorier than than the original with better effects & attack scenes, slashed dead bodies are seen, severed limbs are shown, someone is ripped in half, there's lots of blood splatter & someone gets a tiny baby claw fist punched through their head. There's a bit of nudity as well, while being breast fed Damien bites his mother's nipple & draw's blood in another glaring sign something was wrong that Lenore chose to ignore. Surprisingly the mutant baby effects are extremely restrained & there's only ever one shot of it during the entire film, strangely there are no scenes of Daniel as a normal baby either as he is kept off screen for virtually the whole film. Don't let anyone tell you the original three It's Alive films are classic either, they are not with It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987) easily the worst out of the four films, I should know I have now watched all four It's Alive films in the space of four days (yeah, my head hurts just thinking about it).Filmed in Bulgaria the IMDb says It's Alive had a $10,000,000 budget which I don't believe for a second, there's no way this cost that much & if did have a budget that big it wouldn't have been shot in Bulgaria. The acting varies, the main cast do alright with Bijou Phillips quite good as the mother.It's Alive the remake is a decent little horror film in it's own right actually, don't let anyone fool you that the original is some untouchable classic because it's not although I would still say it's a bit better than this remake overall. A good pace, nicely shot, there's some good gore & virtually no CGI computer effects work means It's Alive the remake actually turned out better than I had expected.

Claudio Carvalho The pregnant college student Lenore Harker (Bijou Phillips) leaves the college before the end of the semester to move to the isolated house in Larkspur of her boyfriend, the architect Frank Davis (James Murray). When Lenore is ready to deliver the baby, they drive to the hospital. In the surgery room, the two doctors and the two nurses are found slaughtered and Lenore and the baby are found covered of blood. When Lenore is released, the family returns to Frank's house. Sooner Lenore discovers that her son is a mutant monster hunger for flesh and blood and she protects him hiding his murders. "It's Alive" is a stupid remake of the 1974 movie. The story is too imbecile and predictable without any surprise. There is no fun, no scare, only gore and this film does not deserve spending time writing a review. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Anjo Maldito" ("Damned Angel")

kirk-246 I found "It's Alive" to be an effective and rather gory tale of a woman who gives birth to a monster of a baby that has an appetite for flesh and blood.I'll admit that I have not seen the 1974 original movie that goes by the same name and was directed by Larry Cohen.Instead, a friend and I watched this remake and we both agree that this was a good horror film.The death scenes of the movie are fast-paced and violent, the baby is a satanic monster, and the mother knows about the baby but refuses to tell anyone.What more could you people want? I mean really, a 3.8? I was not in any way disappointed by this movie.It's no contender for a best picture nomination, but it's good entertainment that only some people don't claim it to be.If I had a problem with the movie, it would be the ending.I thought the ending of "The Stepfather" was bad, but this one was something else.But I am giving a recommendation for "It's Alive" and I hope that the reviews that come in after mine are mostly positive.7.5/10

e-dantes-weinfeld Even I have to leave comment regarding this movie. We just sat there with our jaws wide open thinking : "Is this for real or is this a student movie from 1st semester". The story is so retarded.My 3 year old nephew could have written a better story. I mean a disformed baby that eats human and animal flesh.....okay....could work....but not if your CGI looks like you bought it over ebay and the screewriter was so high on drugs he just wrote down anything for his next fix. Seriously......we laughed the whole time and the only time we where scared was whas when we accidentally hit the replay button after the rolling credits. If you want to see the possibly worst horror movie ever produced go and rent " it's alive". And don't forget to watch the director's interview. You will be pissing yourself how he actually sells the movie as one of the best of its genre. OMG. Enjoy