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It's Alive (1974) - Just A Very Very Big Baby

All seems well, though mom Lenore (Sharon Farrell) is a little worried, with dad Frank (John Ryan) waiting in a Santa Monica maternity ward, then writer-producer-director Larry Cohen with as dramatic a mood shift as you’ll see, in the killer-baby horror hit It’s Alive, 1974.

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Idyllic if foreboding opening (Bernard Hermann music), writer-director-producer Larry Cohen gives us the evening it looks like the baby’s coming, Sharon Farrell the mom, John Ryan the dad, with a nice Walter Brennan impression, Daniel Holzman the kid, from It’s Alive, 1974.
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The L-A cops (James Dixon, Michael Ansara) pretty ho-hum about finding another victim of the killer baby, then the mom (Sharon Farrell) with an new iffy nurse (Nancy Burnett), dad (John Ryan) intervening, then a bit of director Larry Cohen’s subjective killer-camera, in It’s Alive, 1974.
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