It’s Alive II [It Lives Again] *** (1978, Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd, John P Ryan, Andrew Duggan) – Classic Movie Review 8295

There are three mutant toddlers this time in director Larry Cohen’s 1978 It’s Alive II [It Lives Again], the goodish, dark-toned, serious-minded horror sequel to his 1974 hit It’s Alive, in which Frank Davies (again played by John P Ryan), the father of the original mutant monster baby, is back with scientist professor Dr Perry (Andrew Duggan) to battle the killer babies.

Frederic Forrest and Kathleen Lloyd play a Tucson married expecting couple, Eugene and Jody Scott, John Marley plays Mr Mallory, James Dixon plays Detective Lieutenant Perkins, and Eddie Constantine co-stars as a doctor, Dr Forest, in his long-delayed return to America after years in French movies.

Bernard Herrmann is credited for the score, though he died in 1975 and it is his original music from It’s Alive, reworked by Laurie Johnson. There are good Rick Baker effects again.

It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive followed in 1987, again directed by Larry Cohen.

RIP Larry Cohen (1941–2019).

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