Réalisation:
Josef RusnakPhotographie:
Wedigo von SchultzendorffMusique:
Nicholas PikeActeurs·trices:
Bijou Phillips, James Murray, Raphaël Coleman, Owen Teale, Ty Glaser, Skye Bennett, Arkie Reece, Atanas Srebrev, Michal Yannai, Miroslav Emilov (plus)VOD (1)
Résumés(1)
Graduate student Lenore (Bijou Phillips) has put her education on hold in order to have a child with her architect boyfriend, Frank (James Murray). They're planning a new life together in the country when their unborn child begins growing at an alarming rate, and doctors are forced to conduct an emergency C-section for Lenore's safety. When every medic in the operating room is brutally killed, the frightened new parents rush their newborn home and do their best to pretend everything is normal--but it isn't. Their newborn son, Daniel, is an abomination, and prone to savagely attacking anything--and anyone--that gets in his way. Though Lenora does her best to protect Daniel even after it's plain to see that he can't control his murderous impulses, the evidence that something is terribly wrong becomes too powerful to deny when the mangled corpses of dead animals and people begin turning up in the area, and all signs points back to the demonic little bundle of rage with an unholy appetite. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (2)
A very pleasant surprise. Extraordinarily serious psychological horror (unlike my expectations of entertaining B-movie silliness) with an unsettling atmosphere and good performances. It doesn’t have any annoying teenagers or stupid heroes whose behaviour is impossible to comprehend, but living characters with credible behaviour and motivations (though the character of the mother would be very easy to hate with another actress). But you shouldn’t expect gore, that’s not what this is about – there are a couple of blood splatters and corpses, but no more than that. Josef Rusnak gets a lot of out of the premise, delivering a film made with ambition that may not scare you (though there are a couple of moments), but that has plenty of tension. The CGI child monster is fortunately shown only once, and it would have been even better without it, because it looks very bad. Otherwise, I’m very satisfied, it’s better than the recent Grace.
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The movie "It's Alive" not only suffers from literalness, but also the fact that these individual phases are not fully developed to the end. The massacre in the hospital almost feels lost, but it can still be swallowed. Most of the characters are there only to end up dead, which makes the film a bit unnecessarily stretched. As a remake of an average movie, it's acceptable, although it doesn't surpass the original film in any way.
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