It's Alive

It's Alive

Please be quiet. Do not wake him up.

200982 min4.1 / 10

A dark, tense horror film that perverts the intimacy of new parenthood by making the newborn itself a source of brutal violence and dread.

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.

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