10 Horror Franchises Where Every Movie Is Good

3. It's Alive

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Larry Cohen It's Alive is a 1974 cult classic horror about a couple reckoning with the fact that their newborn baby is a grotesque, murderous mutant.

Cohen's film has endured as something of a deranged cult curio over more than 50 years, in large part because of its sheer strangeness and unexpectedly character-driven nature.

It also led to two sequels, both of which carried the unhinged torch forward.

It Lives Again was a scaled-up retread of the same concept - to surprisingly solid results - and threequel It's Alive III: Island of the Alive splintered off in a totally insane and unexpected direction.

None of the It's Alive trilogy were critical bangers, but the films do retain a solid rep among the horror community for their surprising commitment to exploring social themes, and also the innately bizarre nature of Cohen's execution.

As an example of thoughtful, bewildering low-budget horror craftsmanship, it's a genuinely strong trilogy you shouldn't sleep on.

 
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