USA, 1978
68m (France), 87m, 91m
35mm film, Technicolor, 1.85:1
mono, English
An American horror film directed by Larry Cohen.
Plot Summary
Frank Davis, the heartbroken father of the mutant baby from Los Angeles, is roaming the United States looking for other families who have been affected by the experimental drug that maimed his son. In Arizona, he finds one and tries to persuade the parents to let him help their mutant child.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Larry Cohen
© MCMLXXVIII [1978] Larco Prod. Inc.
A Larco production. A Larry Cohen film. Distributed by Warner Bros.
Produced by: Larry Cohen
Associate Producer: William Wellman Jr
Assistant to the Producer: Pamela Cohen
Production Executive: Peter Sabiston
Tucson Production Manager: Jack Young
Tucson Production Coordinator: Vincent Federici
Written by: Larry Cohen
Based on characters created in the Motion Picture “It’s Alive”
Assistant Director: Reid Freeman
Photographed by: Fenton Hamilton
Additional Photography by: Daniel Pearl
Camera Operator: David Lewis
Film Editors: Curt Burch, Louis Friedman, Carol O’Blath
Color by: Technicolor
Music by: Bernard Herrmann
Musical Adaptation and Additional Music by: Laurie Johnson conducted by Mr Johnson
Music Editor: Paul Clay
Sound Mixer: Ken Scrivener
Special Make-up by: Rick Baker
Assistant to Rick Baker: Greg Cannom *
Locations: San Francisco, California, USA *; Tucson, Arizona, USA *
Unit Manager: Doyle Toliver
Tucson Accomodation Courtesy: Sheraton Pueblo Inn
Chrysler Cars from Hart Fullerton Leasing
Location Equipment by: PSI
Filmed with Panavision equipment
Cast
Frederic Forrest (Eugene Scott)
Kathleen Lloyd (Judy Scott)
John P. Ryan as Frank Davis
John Marley (Mr Mallory)
Andrew Duggan (Dr Perry)
Eddie Constantine (Dr Forrest)
James Dixon (Detective Lieutenant Perkins)
Dennis O’Flaherty (Dr Peters)
Melissa Inger (Valerie)
Victoria Jill (Cindy)
Bobby Ramsen (Dr Sando da Silva)
Glenda Young (Lydia)
Lynn Wood (Judy’s mother)
Greg Cannom [baby monster] *
Alternative Titles
It’s Alive II
A Jednak zyje, czesc II – Poland
Les Monstres sont toujours vivants – France
Sigue vivo – Spain
Die Wiege des Satans – West Germany
Links
Sequel to
It’s Alive (1974)
Sequel
It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive (1986)
References
Periodicals
- Screen International 7 July 1979 p.7 – credits
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction by Phil Hardy (ed) pp.342-343
- Educational Institutions in Horror Film: A History of Mad Professors, Student Bodies, and Final Exams by Andrew L. Grunzke p.91
- Film Review 1979-1980 by F. Maurice Speed p.147
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.200
- Horror Films of the 1970s by John Kenneth Muir pp.550-553 – credits, synopsis, review
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film Sequels, Series, and Remakes by Kim R. Holston and Tom Winchester pp.300-301
- The World of Fantasy Films by Richard Myers p.68
