Rating: Rated R for some violence including bloody images, language and brief nudity.
Review: It's Alive is a remake of the 1974 film of the same name except that beyond the killer baby motif absolutely nothing is the same as the original.
Directed by Josef Rusnak (The Thirteenth Floor) and written by Larry Cohen (Q, It's Alive III, Phonebooth), Paul Sopocy and James Portolese (JCVD's Until Death) this is a re-imagining of a film that really didn't need to see the light of day. It's Alive would have to work very hard from the off to justify it's existence.
Just before the end of her semester at college, Lenore Harker (Bijou Phillips) leaves to have a baby with her architect boyfriend Frank Davis (James Murray) at his remote log cabin in the woods. After discovering the baby has doubled in size in just a month they have to extract the baby by a cesarean section, without Frank being present. As the doctor cuts the umbilical cord all hell breaks loose, with the baby killing every doctor and nurse in the operating room. When we cut back to the new mother, the baby is asleep on her stomach and the room is painted a lovely shade of blood red.
After questioning by the police, Lenore is allowed to go back home with her baby (after all, a baby killing people would be ridiculous!) and is left to get on with her life while they organize a psychologist to help her try to remember what happened to the doctors. It's not long before Death Baby bites Lenore when she's feeding him and his taste for blood is revealed.
Gradually the baby gets the taste for rats, cats and weird bird things that look like penguins before progressing to killing fully-grown people. As Lenore refuses to accept her baby is seriously messed up it comes down to wheelchair bound kid Chris Davis (Raphaƫl Coleman) and his uncle Frank Davis (James Murray) to save the day.
Recommendation: I don't recommend this movie to anyone. It was really stupid and it wasted 80 minutes of my life. "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.