Larry Cohen's followup to It's Alive is fun in inverse proportion to the high seriousness with which it is played. But it is not (Robin Wood to the contrary) the outstanding American movie of its year. It picks up the thread of the original with a gripping opening scene in which John Ryan, repeating as the tormented parent of a homicidal infant (written up in Time Magazine, etc., and now making a living on the lecture circuit), crashes a baby shower in order to relay his harrowing tale to an imminently expectant young couple, and it effectively reworks a couple of the highlights of the earlier movie: the delivery-room scene (this time they are prepared for the baby, with guns hidden under towels, and a squadron of cops patrolling the corridor) and the long, suspenseful episode when the little monsters (this time there are three of them) are crawling about the house, untended. Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd. (1978) — Duncan Shepherd
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