10 Horror Movie Creature Features That Broke All The Rules

10. It’s Alive

Directed by the infamous B-movie icon Larry Cohen, who brought us such esteemed efforts as Q: The Winged Serpent and The Stuff, It's Alive is an effort from 1974 which managed to make a movie monster out of the horrors of parenting.

Metaphorically speaking, that is. In literal terms, the movie's monster is a baby.

Sure, it's a mutant baby, but this was still a pretty audacious move for a creature feature to feature a killer infant as its antagonist.

Long before Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson would tread similar territory in his far sillier Braindead, this daring flick opted to take the idea of a killlr cannibal baby dead seriously and created an agreeable slice of schlock in the process. It's a film so solid that it managed to spawn (because it's a baby... get it?) a handful of sequels and a 2009 remake.

The flick is also notable for somehow garnering a PG rating upon its US release, despite the plot concerning... Well, again, a man-eating killer baby. Bit of an oversight on the part of the famously squeamish family-values-friendly MPAA there.