{"id":3447,"date":"2009-10-27T22:37:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T02:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2009-10-27T22:37:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T02:37:24","slug":"its-alive-1974-larry-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3447","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Alive (1974, Larry Cohen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, man.  I was really expecting a classic, great horror film, something at least as awesome as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1827\">God Told Me To<\/a><\/em>.  After all, this had <em>sequels<\/em> and a <em>remake<\/em>.  That adds up to horror classic, right?  But I guess even <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/980\">Maniac Cop<\/a><\/em> had sequels and a (sorta) remake, so no guarantees.  Not that <em>It&#8217;s Alive<\/em> sucked &#8211; it&#8217;s got that 70&#8217;s low-budget 16mm look which I always mistake for gritty realism, and an interesting central dilemma: a couple&#8217;s child turns out to be a murderous monster, so they help in the manhunt for the creature, but parental emotions win out and they end up trying to protect it.<\/p>\n<p>Glimpse of the creature:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/itsalive1.jpg\" alt=\"img\"><\/p>\n<p>Dad: John Ryan of the Wachowskis&#8217; <em>Bound<\/em>, <em>Class of 1999<\/em>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/itsalive3.jpg\" alt=\"img\"><\/p>\n<p>Mom: Sharon Farrell of <em>Out of the Blue<\/em>, <em>The Stunt Man<\/em>:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/itsalive4.jpg\" alt=\"img\"><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately more exciting than the plot were the 70&#8217;s fashions on display.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/itsalive2.jpg\" alt=\"img\"><\/p>\n<p>This one brings back memories:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/itsalive6.jpg\" alt=\"img\"><\/p>\n<p>My favorite shot, by far:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image09\/itsalive5.jpg\" alt=\"img\"><\/p>\n<p>Stinger: &#8220;Another one&#8217;s been born in Seattle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, man. I was really expecting a classic, great horror film, something at least as awesome as God Told Me To. After all, this had sequels and a remake. That adds up to horror classic, right? But I guess even Maniac Cop had sequels and a (sorta) remake, so no guarantees. Not that It&#8217;s Alive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,54,61],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-horror","tag-larry-cohen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}