Let us return to Jason Zinoman’s horror history, Shock Value. Of this film, he writes, “In 1973, Larry Cohen imagined a killing spree taking place inside a birthing room in It’s Alive, a monster movie with music by Bernard Herrmann about a father who wants his wife to get an abortion but instead she goes through with having the baby — to disastrous results. Early on, right after the delivery, the hospital room is a crime scene, dead nurses and doctors everywhere. The baby attacked. Cohen…said he got the idea for the movie from watching a child’s tantrum. ‘I’d never seen anything so violent in my entire life,” he says. “Pure id.” Suffice it to say, the baby does not go down quietly.
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