2009 · horror · sci-fi · monster
It's Alive
Directed by Josef Rusnak1h 22m2009
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.
Our read: It's Alive (2009) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · sci-fi · monster entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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