It's Alive Trilogy Blu-ray Review

It's Alive is a pretty weird and crazy movie from the mind of Larry Cohen, the man behind one of my personal favorites, The Stuff. It's Alive was not only well received by fans, but by critic's as well. It went on to spawn two sequel's and a remake. Scream Factory has aquired the rights and have put out the original 3 in a collector box set.

It's Alive deals with Frank and Lenore Davis, a typical couple who have been waiting to have a second child. To help wait Lenore was taking a new contraceptive pill. When the time comes she goes off of it and becomes pregnant. However to their horror she gives birth to a deformed monster of a child with fangs and even claws. It kills the nurses and doctors and escapes the hospital

It turns out the baby was born this way because of the contraceptive pill and now the pharmacutacal company wants it dead. 

Scream Factory has loaded this Blu-ray with lots of special features

NEW 2K Scan Of The Original Film Elements

NEW Cohen’s Alive: Looking Back At The It’s Alive Films Featuring Interviews With Writer/Producer/Director Larry Cohen, Actors James Dixon, Michael Moriarty And Laurene Landon, And More…

NEW It’s Alive At The Nuart: The 40th Anniversary Screening With Larry Cohen

Audio Commentary with Writer/Producer/Director Larry Cohen

Radio Spots

TV Spots

Theatrical Trailer

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The second film in the trilogy is It's Alive II aka It Lives Again. This picks up after the events of the first film with Frank trying to help other families who were also using the same contraceptive and may be on the verge of having mutant babies like he and his wife did. 

He finds a couple whos wife does in fact give birth to a similar looking mutant as in the first film. This time the pharmacy company is ready and they take the child to study it. Thus begins Frank and the families search to find it. This Blu-ray also includes special features

NEW 2K Scan Of The Original Film Elements

Audio Commentary With Writer/Producer/Director Larry Cohen

Theatrical Trailer

Still Gallery

Finally we have It's Alive III aka Island of the Alive. This one takes place a few years after the last film. This one centers around a man named Jarvis who's wife has given birth to a mutant child like in the previous films. Not wanting his son to be murdered he convinces a judge to spare its life. The judge orders the baby and several others like it to be banished on a remote island.

The pharmacy that created the pills that caused these mutant baby's find out where the island is and plan on going in to kill them so they can begin selling the pills again under a new name. Things go bad and the team sent in is murdered by the mutant children

Several years after this Jarvis goes to the island with a Doctor who wants to study the growth of the mutants, but things go bad for them as well.  Scream Factory has once again loaded this Blu-ray with special features as well.

NEW 2K Scan Of The Original Film Elements

NEW Interview With Special Effects Makeup Designer Steve Neill

Audio Commentary With Writer/Producer/Director Larry Cohen

Trailer

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All three films are not only fantastic horror films, with plenty of gore and jump scares, but they are also fantastic metaphors.on society's issues with regulated prescription drugs.
Each Blu-ray is packaged in it's on case and all three are stored in a very cool slip cover box

Like all their releases this is yet another must own from Scream Factory as well
Overall 4 out of 5 Stars