Horrorwatch.com  
Movie Reviews | Book Reviews | Video Games | Articles | Horror Forums| Chatroom | Horrorshop
 
Main Menu


Submissions

Submit a Review

If you're involved in a horror movie, book or game and would like to see it reviewed on HorrorWatch, click here.

It Lives Again
The monster child returns - but now there are three!
Reviewed by jareprime

Eugene and Jody Scott are having a baby shower at their home. Happy to soon be first time parents, the Scotts have invited their close friends and family for the celebration. As the party draws to a close the Scotts notice a guest who they don’t know. The stranger is none other than Frank Davis, that’s right, Frank Davis the father of the Davis Baby that three years ago was born and went on a killing rampage the likes of which have never been seen. Davis warns the Scotts that their baby may in fact be one like his. Stunned, the Scotts must brace themselves for what may soon be the darkest time of their lives. Try to remain calm and prepare yourself for IT LIVES AGAIN!

If you saw the first film then you know at the ending a sequel was coming, why, I have no idea. Three years after the first film took place, crazy mutated babies are popping from the cootches of women every where. There is a great scene in this film where a doctor is looking into the hairy love canal of Jody Scott and although it is the baby that rips his throat out, the way the shot is done it looks like the poon sprouts arms and bitch slaps the doctor for sneaking a peek at the furburger.

What’s better than one mutant killing baby you ask? How about three. Turns out a lot of women were on a drug that caused the babies to come out this way, or it could be evolution, the frigging plot takes ya down both paths. A crazy doctor/hitman/scientist has been keeping the babies that they have been able to capture, most have to be killed at birth due to their savageness, it becomes a law for doctors to have firearms in the operating rooms during births in case they gotta put one down.

Frank and Lenora Davis both reappear in this second film as they now try to help other couples deal with having a - Bwamp ba wa waw waw wump crazy...baby.(Ozzy song reference for those of you with no music knowledge). As you expect the mad doctor tries to acquire the Scott's baby for his collection. Jody wants to keep her spud, but Eugene wants the evil hellspawn gone so they load it up in a crate and take it to the evil doctors house. Once there and with more of it's kind the babies stage a breakout and go wild.

At this point we get two great scenes. In one a baby sneaks into bed with a thug and in the second Eugene's own baby attacks him in a swimming pool, this scene looks like a man thrashing around with a pink beachball, which was probably what they used. After this the film almost becomes the first as the parents must once again confront their children.

Full of the same bad effects, dialog, characters and plot lines, It Lives Again, sucks as much as the first one and wasted yet another two hours of my life, oh well, I do it all for you.

Oh by the way, for some reason there is a scene at a birthday party where a cop shoots a rattlesnake that is about to bite a kid, this may be one of the worst effects of all time. The snake looks like one you get from a dollar store and I think they made it move with a magnet.

2/10



(1978) Larry Cohen

Frederic Forrest .... Eugene Scott
Kathleen Lloyd .... Jody Scott
John P. Ryan .... Frank Davis
John Marley .... Mr. Mallory
Andrew Duggan .... Dr. Perry
Eddie Constantine .... Dr. Forrest
James Dixon .... Detective Perkins
Dennis O'Flaherty .... Dr. Peters
Melissa Inger .... Valerie
Victoria Jill .... Cindy
Bobby Ramsen .... Dr. Sando da Silva
Glenda Young .... Lydia
Lynn Wood .... Jody's Mother

Also known as:
It's Alive II



Search the Site

Custom Search



hit counter
Horrorwatch, Horrorwatch.com and all content © 2003 - 2010


Horrorfind Banner Exchange