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A 3 Minute+ Trailer For The Remake Of IT'S ALIVE Is Somehow On The Nets!!
Merrick here...
A long trailer for the remake of Larry Cohen's 1974 film IT'S ALIVE is online again. First the trailer was there, then it wasn't, then it was...so who knows what'll happen next.
If you've never seen the original film, it's about the birth of a murderous, monstrous baby and its effects on a hapless family.
This new iteration is directed b y Josef Rusnak, who wrote and directed an under-appreciated film called THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR back in 1999 - which Roland Emmerich produced. It got buried by THE MATRIX, but has some interesting stuff in it. Of course, he also directed THE ART OF WAR II: BETRAYAL (see Vern's review HERE), so...
The folks at Bloody Disgusting dug this up, and talk about it in an article you can find HERE.
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Never seen it.
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Ha "is the first one good..." clever.
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But seriously, is the first film good?
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I used to have nightmares about that kid. But I suppose the main thing people will talk about in this talkback is the boob shot.
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Finally!!!!
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Ballsack
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the fonts of the little phrases make it seem dtv. and nice of them to totally give away a death in the trailer. i mean i'm sure its obvious he would die based on the sorta movie it is but now we know when and how it happens, lovely. lol
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this freaked me out when i was a kid....now...it's back...and its ALIVE!!!
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One woman. One time. Been sad every since.
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there, now someone talked about it. but seriously, that was bad editing because the boob shot was clear as day but the scenes of her looking at em where nightime/blue-ish.
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Give that kid a teething ring!
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Looks like it could be funny in parts...perhaps during the "serious" investigation discussions and the "young Mrs. Voorhees/flipped out mom" role; guess we'll have to see later.
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The actual original movie was called ITS A LION.
I saw it. -
This was up months ago.
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This trailer looks good but as though it could have been directed by anybody. Outside the bizarre concept, this pretty much looks like the average horror flick of the month. Still, I really did like Rusnak's THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR, so maybe this will be good.
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The original was frightening even though it was clearly a puppet. In this trailer, the baby appears normal looking in every scene it's in...how is that scary? What were they doing...saving on the makeup budget?
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Im sold
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is hot. Hot I say.
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the baby looking like a normal baby...that was the whole point it was a crazy big headed mutant baby. I dont buy that shot of the Doctor getting spun around in the air like that. Serious overkill...no baby's gonna be able to do that. Now...jump on your face and start eating you...that i'll buy...but c'mon.
Yeah the first movie freaked me the hell out as a kid. I think they're even sequels. -
there are...whatever
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...loved how as the mutant baby was ripping the milkman to shreds inside the milktruck, they had a shot of all the milk pouring out of the truck, said milk gradually turning from white, to pinkish, to red as the milkman's blood started gushing out. Classic schlock-movie death of a milkman!
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back in the day. It was disappointing as a horror flick, and a pretty stupid premise to boot. As I recall, the mutant baby was a result of pollution (and the subsequent effect on the mom) and the idea was that these babies might stat popping up all over the place.This looks like a better take, but it's still a pretty stupid premise.
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When I was a little kid this movie scared the shit out of movie, the sequels not so much. However, I imagine watching it 30+ years later, it won't hold up so well.
Heck, most movies that old don't hold up that well. I just rewatched Robocop for the first time in ages, and it isn't the untouchable masterpiece everyone claims. -
At this rate we'll have a remake of The Beast Within around the corner! I'm sick of remakes, but I'd like to see this guy rise back out of DTV. I'm kinda getting a Teeth vibe from this though: cool concept, but will they just ride the fact that it is one? I want scary mutant baby! And the car chomping scene looks cartoonishly over the top (Ichi would be proud of those blood sprays). Remember when kids were really fucking scary? Remember Pet Cemetery? Anyway, a lot of it looks like a really poorly constructed trailer is to blame... bust sadly not all. Still, hope it's good!
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As long as it leads to an over-the-top remake of Island of the Alive. That... would be worth it.
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volunteer your mother in law to baby sit?
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Nice c................
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Aren't there some real movies out there to talk about?
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but it did have early Rick Baker make up design and a Bernard friggin Herrmann score. This looks to be like the Sisters remake...soon to be on the shelf of your local Blockbuster.
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If only they could convince Andy Garcia to star in it. Heh.
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...I used to LOVE the first one. I got creeped out by the premise and the baby's hideous cry, but all the kill shots are lame or off camera. They never show what happened in the delivery room. Only the aftermath. The sequel is dull, and my GOD, if you want a serious laugh, go rent the third one where the mutant babies have been bannished to an island to grow into adults. Fucking hilarious.
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Because Craig Bierko comes off as a smarmy, condescending ass in every movie he's ever made. No one wants to watch that on the big screen.
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I remember sitting in the living room by myself at night when I was a kid and the ad came out. It played "kiddie music" with xylophones and stuff, then it ended with that mutant baby scream. Man, the lights went ON after that. Freaked me out.
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And that scream is still haunting.
This one, not so much. -
That movie and its sequel were some of my favorites when they were rotated on Showtime during the 80's.
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. . . of the seventies, everybody better have seen Q, The Winged Serpent of whatever it was called. Awesome crapness there.
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those creepy talking baby ads for E*Trade.
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Be afraid, be very afraid. Or quiet, apparently. Whatever. A 3-minute trailer? Always a bad sign.
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Fucking babysitter took me and my sister to the original... When I was 7!! New subdivision construction behind our house with brand new, giant sewer tunnels we used to play in.... um, thats how the babymonster travelled = months of nightmares = scarred 4 life. Fuck babymonsters!
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Cause there weren't enough B TV actors with real American accents to cast?
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That's messed up. My babysitter decided I could just sit and watch ALL of Humanoids From the Deep on HBO. WARPED me for years. Mom and Dad returned home just in time to see the very last scene. Babysitter wasn't paid & never rehired.
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Hopefully they won't try to undermine the howls of unintentional laughter to had by TRYING to make it funny. If they go deadly serious with this, I predict rivers of giggle pee running down the aisles of theaters (or at least on living room floors with the DVD.)
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Looks like a laughable premise for a movie to me.
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is it him? can't be, surely? (uk)
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...awesome idea ever. Killer infant. Genious.
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Floor was awesome. Any of my Europeans Brethren out there remember how big a of hit that damn H.I.M. song was?
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I wish we could get some more of these.
Maybe they can redo Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elmstret, Children of the Corn, Poltergeist and Childs Play next... oh, wait a minute.
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in that sitcom with that revoltingly hyper-skinny unsexy twit ally mcbeal...but the original totally freaked me out as a kid. The trailer may be one of the best horror trailers ever, it was that simple and yet that creepy. That scream and the "baby's eye view" from the bushes as the milk truck rolls up. Classic! If they've turned the IT's ALIVE monster-baby into normal baby and then poof, monster baby...then that sucks total ass in the most ass suckingly way possible. The original had the aftermath in the hospital, blood, mom unconscious, no baby anywhere. If I remember correctly, the cops thought it was a cult that took the baby and slaughtered everybody or something. I just don't remember having a lot of fun watching it and that fucking mewling mutant scream the thing had...not the kind of stuff you want pouring through your head when you're face-first over the toilet trying to think of fuzzy kittens and spring meadows to avoid puking from a long night of drunken debauchery, no?
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Wow. Just wow. I really hope this is a DTV because if it's not this movie is going to tank and tank hard.
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movie? "Stupid premise" is almost redundant there! That's almost like saying his "Little Shop of Horrors" was ridiculous!
Even with no money, Rick Baker was always awesome. Mutant babies! What's not to love?! -
Aug 21, 2008 12:20:38 PM CDT
Christ, the dearth of original thought is sometimes depressing
by i am_notreal
as all hell, and surely must be a sign of some greater societal ill. Maybe I shouldn't have been as hard on The Dark Knight, even with its copious and prominent flaws. OK, OK, I take it all back. Sorry.
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Bizarre, I might see this on DVD. Trailer's too damned long, but nice nipple shot!
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Just sayin
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Is skank. Is skank I say.
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For the love of all that is holy, please stop remaking every horror movie!
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I love that goofy little McNugget.
I rented "It's Alive" once back in the 80's because the gang at Fangoria really liked the birth scene. I liked that scene too but I didn't care for the rest of the picture. -
movies like this are sure-fire comedies!
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As Robert DeNiro was to Scorsese. Remember the killer yogurt movie. That's a classic '80s concept..killer yogurt. Leave it to CohenI still say after Phone Booth and Cellular he should write/direct "iTerror!".
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I usually come in here and defend projects from pre judgment and to give the players a chance...buuuuuuuut OH DEAR GOD I"VE NEVER SEEN A MORE INSANELY IDIOTIC IDEA IN ALL MY LONG YEARS.... that said we should reserve judgemnet.
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starring Kirstie Alley as the head mutant baby and Gerald Butler as the protagonist father searching for her. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.
Not included are fun, originality or accountability. -
Directors need to learn about a mysterious force called .....PHYSICS.
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Aug 21, 2008 1:10:18 PM CDT
Who wrote this trailer narration, Elmer Fudd?
by slyandthefamilystallone
Be very, very quiet. Heh heh heh heh.
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The best horror taps into a very basic, instinctive, primal fear, so obviously everybody's fear that something is going to be wrong with their baby is a goldmine of terror to be tapped. Conversely, the idea is a killer newborn is ludicrous for anyone who's spent 5 minutes with a baby, so how you get over the believability hurdle and deliver the scares in something approaching realism is a narrow line to tread.
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I thought Island of the Alive was Its Alive III
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1977's Demon Seed."A super computer succeeds in raping its creator's wife in order to recreate itself in a hybrid baby."Who wouldn't rather see that, in a Hard R, than a remake of It's Alive (and yet somehow boring)?
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I don't want LEON to be the next obituary. :(
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Films like The Omen and especially Rosemary's Baby really tapped into the fear of children and childbirth, but fear of a hyper aggressive baby just doesn't seem to translate to film.
By the way, didn't Cronenberg take on a film with a similar concept called The Brood? I haven't seen it but if anyone else has could they tell me if it fits in the same category as It's Alive and the above two films. -
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What a great movie. This one is begging to be remade. Forget "It's Alive" and "Deathrace". Get to work on "Demon Seed" right now, Hollywood Hacks. You have your orders. -
My bad.
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...right? That was painful to watch... except for Bijou. She's always willing to be naked for the team. You gotta love her intrinsic need to be naked in every movie she does. Her best performance was in Bully, as she's riding Micheal Pitt and pouring hot wax on his chest. The girl was not acting, she was being!
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...than American Carol that's for sure. The original was a cheap, fun, partly-tongue-in-cheek exploitation picture. It had a certain low budget flair and a little social commentary but this just looks like standard, pedestrian modern horror with a few unintentional laughs thrown in.
Who was it above who credited Little Shop of Horrors to Cohen? Really, if you can't differentiate between Larry Cohen and Roger Corman you should hand your Geek card back pronto.
rbatty - The Brood doesn't fit into the category of any other film, it's batshit insane. I really liked it but probably in a minority I think -
Who the hell thinks up this shit?
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And while we're talking about Demon Seed, how bout a remake of The Entity. Who's boobs should the entity fondle this time? Barbara Hershey was the bomb!
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from the same era, watch "the Incredible Melting Man". Very dumb movie, but Baker at his best.
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"He just gets so hungry sometimes."
Wondertrash that I shall own. -
And I rewatched Robocop the other day and it still is fucking awesome so maybe you are a fag. And in the brood she birthed them but they weren't babies, they fit in 6 year old clothes and were kinda gobliny.
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Now I have to watch it. Maybe I can do a double feature of The Brood and the new It's Alive. I think I'll regulate It's Alive to an opening act. Kind of like the funny cartoon before the feature film.
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That's BAD GIRLS the sleazy Brit prison drama (soon to be remade for the colonies) not BAD GIRLS the blowdried Jonathan Kaplan western.
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...as a dark comedy. If they try to do this as a serious horror film, it won't float. Looks pretty much like a waste of everyone's time and money.
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Julius Crary died of pancreatic cancer yesterday. Damn!
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The original was never that satisfying. We need someone like Bijou, who will really throw herself into the nakedosity
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I'll watch it.
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And it smells like Count Dooku!
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Bandwidth issues. The first It's Alive was surprisingly strong. It's not much of a concept, and its hardly a recognisable name for the tweens, so yet again I don't understand the drive behind a remake. I did however see the Thirteenth Floor. Very bad movie. Unless you rank it alongside direct to midday tv movies.
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for some of the trailer. That's about as close to Kubrick as this movie will ever get.
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How clever. Just about as clever as the YAWN running zombies Dawn 'update', or the pointless and frame for frame Omen remake.
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But, then again, so did Pearl Harbor. Altho, +1 Kool-Aid points for the nipple shot! Sadly, it made my whole day...
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Yes, that TV spot freaked me out... also the one for Prophecy (the pollution-mutated grizzlies) and a bigfoot movie. And Magic. P.S. This reminds me a lot of Jenifer from that Showtime series that shall not be named... only thousands of times worse.
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At least i won't have to sit through that now...seen it all and it looks like shit! Did Geoffery Rush have a look a like actor in there some where? As for The Thirteenth Floor, that is a solid pic. It had the guy who was the bad guy from The Long Kiss Goodnight.
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I don't see a creepy baby in this!? just an obscured real one I think might have a CG Tongue or something at the end like the wee baby at the end of Species!And half the cast off Brit TV shows!?
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...what took so long to get it here?
There was (is?; too lazy to check) a short trailer for the original on YouTube. It was merely a camera panning around a crib with that great line..."There's only one thing wrong with the Davis baby: IT'S ALIVE.". Good stuff. -
love that movie. it's so awful and so funny at the same time.
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I want a Monster in the Closet remake.
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the mother isn't the killer who's living out some sick MPD thingie? I don't know. I wasn't paying much attention to the trailer. Ignore that idea. The original trailer creeped me out, too. I'd like to see a good remake of The Evil, please. Okay, gotta go.
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It was me. I'm hanging on to my geek card through a couple of technicalities. First, it was 3 in the morning when I posted (so it serves me right). Second, I did give props to Baker.
Sorry. I'm all embarrassed now. -
The analogy still stands re: "the premise is ridiculous" and missing the forest for the trees.
Cronenberg should give a workshop to literal-minded fanboys about physical/literal manifestation of themes and symbolism in horror/genre films. -
I can't believe a movie with so much classic horror running through it's veins has been so ignored by AICN. Just watch the trailer on Quicktime and tell me that doesn't look fucking awesome.
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This movie looks boring and crappy. I love horror, but I hate bad horror.
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Superman's bastard child?
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...Those lucky bastards at Fantastic Fest get that and Deadgirl and Tokyo Gore Police, among others. God, thats the only festival, aside from porn ones, I'd ever want to attend.
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Aug 22, 2008 7:58:03 AM CDT
I always thought the 1974 TV spot was very creepy...
by lanemyersclassic
..and much more effective than that long trailer.
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I fear for his classmates in pre-school if he goes.
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W...T...F
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...so this can only be an improvement (aside from the Bernard Herrmann score being replaced by Steve Jablonsky).
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Not huge but perky and yummy. Oh, this movie looks like shit.
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ridiculously stupid series of horror movies. I think I saw the second one (It Lives Again) which had me and my friends rolling on the floor laughing. WHY remake this? Lets remake all those shitty Full Moon Pictures movies while we're at...
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Was the stupid growling sounds the babies would make.... makes me laugh just thinking about it.
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..."Spiderman 2", where the surgeons are being thrown around.
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I like the fact that in the first film the baby was a monster from BIRTH on. This looks like it will be a "normal looking baby" that bites when angry. Silly, bring on the mutant freak monster. Nice tit BTW : )
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