It's Alive

Charla vacía y escenas innecesarias durante una buena mitad de la película. Larry Cohen era un hábil hombre de Hollywood, y podía convencer a Bernard Herrmann y lograr un cartel atractivo, pero construir una historia interesante y enganchar al espectador era demasiado para él. La película tiene una idea novedosa con un mutante asesino nato y unos padres que están en guerra con los remordimientos por un lado y el apego paterno por otro, pero nada de esto se aprovecha como motor psicológico viable para la película. Y las escenas de terror son baratas y como de serie B. (02.05.2021)

It’s not that bad. Cohen could, of course, have made a stifling psychological horror film about the dark side of parenthood with this premise, but instead of Eraserhead he went for an undeniably softer and grittier whodunit. Although the direction is surprisingly focused and quite engaging in the beginning, gradually Cohen gets narratively unhinged – not so much by what happens on a scene-by-scene level, because that's mostly boring, but by how the story unfolds and how darkly it ends. A murderous toddler unsuccessfully chased by the entire police force, a father with a raging parental existential crisis, and a last sentence that hints at the beginning of Armageddon and the endangerment of civilization. Don't have kids, there's enough of us already and they're gonna eat us! 65 % (22.04.2022)