It's Alive

     This movie rides a fine line when it comes to being a comedy or a horror film. I mean it's about a killer baby for goodness sake! That alone makes it worth watching. Plus the movie poster was very clever... a deformed clawed hand coming from "something" inside a baby carriage. 

      Anyway, this little gem opens with a couple that is proudly expecting a rather large (10 pounds... ouch.) but an otherwise healthy baby boy. All seems well until the actual birth when after the proud father walks in, he discovers a delivery room slaughterhouse. The umbilical cord looks chewed off and apparently, there's now a killer baby on the loose! Whoo, I'm all a panic. 

      We don't see much of the baby actually, only the occasional "baby's point of view" shot. The baby has some serious double vision, fangs, a rather large head, and long claws. It makes the most hilarious cry/screech when it kills the milkman for some moo juice. All things considered, it is still a baby. 

      Dad decides to pursue it while Mom proceeds to lose her mind. I guess having your newborn infant on America's Most Wanted list tends to take a toll. The "baby" finally figures out that it should be with Mom and Dad and finds its way back home. It eats the family cat and crawls into its crib, all is well.  

     Since he helped bring this monstrosity to life, Dad feels that it's his duty to kill it. Dad and the police chase it into a sewer, Dad has a change of heart and wants to love it and at the last moment tries to save it. But with half the American Armed Forces waiting outside, he doesn't get very far. Dad pleads for the life of his son saying that it can't hurt anyone. I guess he hadn't yet picked up the newspaper and learned about a killer baby on the loose with about 20 victims already under its belt. The baby screeches like a banshee lunges at a cop and gets pulverized with about a gazillion bullets. 

      At the very end of the movie, we learn that another monstrous baby has been born in Seattle. Leading the way for two more sequels that really sucked. If you really want to have a few laughs making fun of a movie that was intended to be pretty scary and came out totally hilarious, this Bud's for you. The movie also has a great tagline... There's only one thing wrong with the Davis baby... It's Alive!!!