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''It's Alive'' is a 1974 American horror film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen. In the movie, a couple's infant child turns out to be a vicious mutant monster that kills when frightened. Notable talents involved in the movie were Bernard Herrmann who composed the score (noted for his work on many films of Alfred Hitchcock) and Rick Baker for makeup and puppet effects. ==Plot== In Los Angeles, Frank Davis (John Ryan) and his wife Lenore (Sharon Farrell) are expecting their second child. Frank is a successful public relations consultant and his wife is a stay-at-home mom for their first child, Chris (Daniel Holzman). The couple avoided having a child for several years while Lenore took contraceptive pills. When their child is ready to be born, they leave Chris with a family friend, Charley (William Wellman, Jr.), and go to the hospital. Their second child is born monstrously deformed, with fangs and claws. Immediately after birth, one of the doctors attempts to suffocate the child. The child kills the doctors and nurses and flees through a skylight. Lenore is left alive, screaming for her child as a horrified Frank discovers the carnage. Frank and Lenore are allowed to leave the hospital while the police investigate the killings. Unknown to anyone, the child is travelling to the Davis home, killing anyone it encounters. As the killings continue, the press and the police hound Frank and Lenore. When talking with medical researchers investigating the case, Frank is reminded of watching ''Frankenstein'' and Karloff's portrayal of the monster. He sees the child as symbolic of the monster and comes to see himself as Dr. Frankenstein, the true monster who created and abandoned the creature. Frank denies the child is his son, and joins the hunt for the murderous infant. The doctor who prescribed the prescription drugs to Lenore is contacted by a pharmaceuticals executive. The executive acknowledges that the child's mutations may have been caused by the drugs. He tells the doctor that the child must be destroyed to prevent discovery of the company's liability. The Davis infant reaches the Davis home. Lenore embraces the child and hides him in the basement. Chris becomes homesick and runs away from Charley's house; Charley follows him. Frank discovers that Lenore is hiding the infant. Lenore desperately defends her child, and promises it would not hurt the family. Frank takes a gun into the basement to kill the infant, but he finds Chris talking to it and promising to protect it. Frank shoots at the child and hits it. The infant flees the basement and attacks and kills Charley. Frank shoots again. Lenore hysterically tries to stop Frank, and Frank tries unsuccessfully to reason with her. The police track the infant into the sewers, where Frank hunts it with a rifle. When he finds it, he realizes that the child is frightened and will not hurt him. He apologizes to the child and picks it up. Wrapping the baby in his coat, Frank tries to elude the police, but a mob of armed cops confronts him as he exits. He pleads for them to study the child but not hurt it. The fertility doctor screams at the police to kill the baby. The child leaps from Frank's arms and attacks the doctor. The cops open fire, killing both the infant and the doctor. As the Davises are taken home by the police, the detective in charge receives news that another deformed baby has been born in Seattle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It's Alive (1974 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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