Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

GL84 Determined to prevent another incident, the group who battled the creatures previously spring into action when reports surface of another potential killer baby being born and bring it to an isolated study center only for one to escape which makes them try to track it down and kill it.This was quite a dull and unnecessary sequel. One of the few things that works here is the fact that the creatures are made a focal point of the for a much longer period of time than what had happened previously. Given more of an emphasis for being there in the area this time around, with the majority of the first half consisting of them getting the information out of the group and what their intentions are which carries into the need for the security at the hospital for the birth of the creature and the resulting chaos afterward. Consisting of the abduction and eventual hostage part in the truck where it really gets even bigger with the incidents in the back part of the truck, this here is a fine start to things which is later played off nicely in the later half where the creatures are loose in suburbia and have plenty of enjoyable encounters between the creatures and the swarm hunting them down. As this provides the action with some decent gore effects, these are what hold this one down over its rather large flaws. A lot of the film's problems stem from the same issue that befell the original in that there's just not a whole of interesting things going on here. Taking the guise of a loose remake where this starts off with the creatures' birth and the eventual escape from the hospital only this time it takes far longer to get to the point of the story which here makes no sense at all. The point of keeping mutant, bloodthirsty deformed freaks alive and healthy in the manner attempted here is not only colossally irresponsible but also moronic by keeping known threats to humanity alive. The fact that we don't really get much of anything about their point to be conducting the experiments on the creatures or what they hope to learn from them at the facility which makes their mission even more problematic overall. As these here are all in disservice to the pacing here, this one is just so dull and barely interesting that it feels a lot longer than the others which makes it incredibly hard to get into this one. Added together with the unimpressive action scenes that don't really mean much of anything that happens here is interesting, this one is quite the bland and unappealing effort.Rated PG: Violence and Language.

Vomitron_G "It Lives Again" is a very consistent sequel to the 1974 original "It's Alive". Of course it is, since both films are written, directed and produced by Larry Cohen. He picks things up after the events of the first film, by having Frank Davis (John P. Ryan) - father of the Davis monster baby which was killed at the end of the first film - visit soon-to-be parents Eugene & Jody Scott (Frederic Forest & Kathleen Lloyd). Davis suspects that their baby will be of the same mutant kind of offspring and offers his help (together with a team of doctors, operating outside the authorities' knowledge). For what they want to do, is to save the baby in order for it to live, while the authorities want to exterminate this sudden rash of mutant newborns. That in itself is an original spin on things, and one way for this sequel to differentiate itself from the original. Another thing being that there are not one but three monster babies this time. Also, this time the script expands a little further on the human drama, which wasn't a bad choice of Cohen. The concept of mutant killer babies remains as (un)convincing as it was in the first film. So does the movie's ecological/pharmaceutical message. It's just something you'll have to fly with, as both films play things with a straight face. "It Lives Again" has a slightly higher pace to the events than the original had and about the same production values, making it a worthwhile sequel that's pretty much on par with the original. At the time young SFX artist Rick Baker returned to create the killer babies (don't expect his best work here; he was only getting started). So does composer Bernard Herrmann, who delivers a tense musical score just as decent as he did on the first film. So, the outcome is simple: if you've enjoyed the first film, go ahead and enjoy this sequel. If, however, the concept of killer mutant babies doesn't appeal to you, then you shouldn't bother watching any of these three Larry Cohen films (the third one being "Island of the Alive" from 1987).

Tommy Nelson Stars: Frederic Forest, Kathleen Lloyd and John P. Ryan.A government conspiracy to kill all of the mutated babies has Frank Davis (Ryan) helping a pregnant couple out and stopping them from going through what he did. The first 15 minutes of the film are Frank talking to the couple at their baby shower and it is actually the 15 most enjoyable minutes in the film. Larry Cohen gives us an unneeded second dosage of similar material that is neither an improvement nor worse than the first one. Some people might enjoy this better for more screen time for the babies, and some may enjoy it less for rehashing material from the first. I liked it OK, but it was nothing special.My rating: ** out of ****. 90 mins. R for violence

Backlash007 ~Spoiler~ I was very surprised that I liked the original It's Alive. I liked it a lot actually, enough to buy it. I'm not a big fan of Larry Cohen; I recognize his oddball talents and his contributions to the genre, but I just don't love his movies. Later I saw It's Alive III and that was exactly the crapfest I was expecting. It's Alive III is more like the usual Cohen goofiness. It Lives Again falls somewhere in between the two. It's not nearly as good as It's Alive but it's far superior to Part III. However, I will never sit down to watch it again. It Lives Again seems to be a pointless sequel to me. John P. Ryan returns as Frank Davis and the story centers on him informing a new couple that they have a "monster" baby on the way. So Davis talks the couple (played well enough by Frederic Forrest and Kathleen Lloyd) into joining the underground and saving the mutant baby. The first part of the movie is quite compelling. Once again Cohen creates the question of whether these babies should become victims of infanticide or should they be allowed to live? Unfortunately, this time he answers the question, definitively. How can we side with the babies after they kill the sympathetic Davis character and all of the doctors who were attempting to save them? After Frank Davis dies, I hated the babies and didn't care what happened to them. No, scratch that. I wanted the evil things to die. I got my wish but I still wasn't satisfied because Cohen still tries to make them sympathetic in the end. It just didn't work. While I regard the original as a minor classic, this one is avoidable.