Le monstre est vivant

Original title: It's Alive

1974
16
1h 31m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

9.4K

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Body Horror Horror Sci-Fi

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

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

9.4K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

Frank
(as John Ryan)

Sharon Farrell

Lenore

Andrew Duggan

The Professor

Guy Stockwell

Bob Clayton

James Dixon

Lt. Perkins

Michael Ansara

The Captain

Robert Emhardt

The Executive

William Wellman Jr.

Charley

Shamus Locke

The Doctor

Nancy Burnett

Nurse
(as Mary Nancy Burnett)

Patrick McAllister

Expectant Father
(as Patrick Macallister)

Daniel Holzman

Chris

Diana Hale

Secretary

Herbert Winters

Expectant Father
(as Gerald York)

Jerry Taft

Expectant Father

Gwil Richards

Expectant Father

W. Allen York

Expectant Father

Director
- Larry Cohen
Writer
- Larry Cohen
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Trivia
Le monstre est vivant (1974) was filmed and edited simultaneously with another Larry Cohen film, Casse dans la ville (1973), which was shot on the weekends during the production of Le monstre est vivant (1974). This means that many of the same cast and crew put in consecutive seven-day work weeks to create both of these films.

Goofs
At the end of the film when Frank is holding the baby in his arms, the cover accidentally reveals a patch of hair, revealing it to be a dog.

Quotes
Lieutenant Perkins: Hunting and killing babies doesn't seem to be my specialty.

Connections
Edited into Les monstres sont toujours vivants (1978)

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Featured review

Intelligent and engaged.

A fantastically focused and engaged socio-horror film from the last golden age of the 1970s. Anchored around a most committed and persuasive performance from John Ryan and Larry Cohen's empathetic and savvy direction, It's Alive might display some raggedness and lapses in style, but it more than makes up for this with searing intelligence, sharp and sad gallows humour and a beating heart on the side of the ostracized and ridiculed. A fine example of what genre movies can really do.