It's Alive

It's Alive

Please be quiet. Do not wake him up.

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Release Date

8/15/2009

Runtime

80 mins

Overview

When Lenore Harker learns that she's pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend Frank in the country. The happy new family's lives takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a mysterious connection to their newborn.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$1,035,267

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A lean, darkly comic body horror premise executed with visceral tension: what happens when your newborn is a biological weapon? The film treats its monstrous concept with deadpan seriousness, generating sustained unease from a setup that should be absurd.

Mood

UnsettlingDread-soakedTense

Themes

FamilyComing apartSurvival

Tone

Matter-of-fact

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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