FilmPGMonster & Creature Body Horror Sci-Fi Horror

It's Alive1974

Name: It's Alive
Genre: Monster & Creature, Body Horror, Sci-Fi Horror
Released: 1974-04-26
Rating: 6

“There's only one thing wrong with the Davis baby...”

Directed by Larry Cohen

6.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 5.8Metacritic 72TMDB 6.0

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Year

1974

Runtime

91 min

Box Office

Budget

$500,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$7,100,000

🏆 1 win & 1 nomination total

The premise

The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever scared. And it's easily scared.

Horror Vault's take

When the Davis family eagerly awaits the arrival of a new baby, their joy turns to horror as the delivery room becomes the scene of something unimaginable. What emerges is no ordinary infant — it's a mutant creature driven by primal fear and lethal instinct, leaving a trail of carnage in its wake. Larry Cohen's low-budget 1974 shocker uses its killer-baby premise to probe deeper anxieties about parenthood, responsibility, and what society does to those it deems aberrant.

Content: Graphic Violence, Disturbing Imagery Involving An Infant, Bloody Creature Attacks