It's Alive (1974) Original

It's Alive (1974) is the horror movie extreme of the white trash "I'm not the daddy!" baby nightmare It's Alive is about a killer baby (deformed baby that is a monster & kills people) and it spawned two sequels and a 2008 remake. The film is number 43 on Bravo's list of 100 Scariest Movie Moments. At first glance the film can seem boring or hoaky and dated, but it did several things well: the beginning scene is so calm that it makes the first and biggest scare of the movie all the more scarier. The movie has some cool 1st-person POV shots from the view of the baby, and the whole movie uses the father denying his relationship to the baby as an allusion to frankenstein, the father is worried that people will eventually equate this "thing" with him just as people get Frankenstein and Frankenstein's monster confused with each other. The movie finally picks up in the last twenty minutes or so with some great scenes of chasing the monster in the sewers, and a twist ending. I give it a 3.5-4/5