Best movie of this year hands down!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Best movie ever!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This film is so boring I had actually forgotten I'd watched it. Don't get me wrong, I love a crappy movie, but some of these older crappy movies are so sluggish and uneventful they send me off to sleep. Manos did exactly the same thing.This one has an annoying couple being held captive by Bill Thurman (from the better Keep my Grave Open and Creature of Black Lake and the exactly the same crappy Night Fright), who is looking after some terrible looking monster in his cave basement. That's the story for the most part, but you'll clawing your eyes out waiting for something interesting to happen.Yeah, it's one of those 'bad' movies...but it's also a bad movie.Next!

I'm a sucker for a crappy monster movie, but even I have my limits; 'It's Alive!', a made for TV effort from schlockmeister Larry Buchanan, goes beyond those limits and then some...Bill Thurman plays Greely, owner of a back-road menagerie whose most unusual attraction is a prehistoric monster (also played by Thurman) that is kept hidden in a cave and fed on unsuspecting passers-by. When married couple Leilla and Norman Sterns (Shirley Bonne and Corveth Ousterhouse) take a wrong turn and wind up at Greely's place, they soon find themselves added to the monster's menu, along with unfortunate paleontologist Wayne (Tommy Kirk). Greely's petrified housekeeper Bella (Annabelle Weenick) is their only hope of escape, but can they convince the woman to risk her life to help?With a really bad rubber monster and an amazingly OTT performance from Thurman (a master of the maniacal laugh), this could have been an unintentionally funny piece of Z-grade trash, but the dreary script, wooden acting from everyone else, and utterly lifeless direction from Buchanan ensures that no-one is laughing. Technically shoddy from start to finish, this is a real test of patience, the worst parts being a prolonged flashback filmed with no sound, but given a dreadful voice-over by Weenick, and a slow-motion chase scene through the woods. 80 minutes have rarely seemed so long.

It's Alive, from 1969, is a cheesy, low budget, sci-fi film, with way to much dialog, and little to no monster scenes. The plot revolves around a couple, who are very short with one another. They're going on a road trip, when their car breaks down, or runs out of gas, or whatever. They meet a paleontologist while looking for help, who tells them of a farmer up the road who may be able to help. So when they go to visit the farmer, he tells them he has no gas, and asks them to stay. While they're there, the paleontologist shows up, and asks about the couple. The farmer proceeds to knock him out, and drag him into a cave. So now we know he's a bad guy. He later shows the couple his cave, which is really a hiding spot for the farmers discovery: A giant lizard monster. He locks them all in the cave to feed his friend. When the husband is killed, it's up to the farmers abused wife to help kill the creature with dynamite the paleontologist has. In a predictable ending, the creature turns on the abusive, and insane farmer, and ends up being destroyed with the dynamite. The movie itself isn't bad. In fact, it would be pretty good if we saw the monster more than 2 times, and it was only for a brief period of about 1 minute each time. The rest of the movie is just stupid dialog. But really, if you're bored, then go check it out, and see for yourself what you thinks.

Larry Buchannan makes Ed Wood look like Preston Sturges but to his credit he conned his way into making more films and having them bought and seen on late night than Wood ever dreamt of.If you've seen Zontar The Thing From Venus or Curse Of THe Swamp Creature you've basically seen the monster in one form or another since they're all culled from the same suit. One has a top fin,one doesn't,one is just a mask and hands and another is a full suit. Although the creature here is supposed to be a dinosaur man you don't get the feeling that it's supposed to be twenty feet tall until the mad farmer tells you it's twenty feet tall.As others have stated this is solely a flick for those that are into cinematic badness and seeing every monster movie possible no matter what.The flashback scenes of torture with the chasing and the whistle wake ups are indeed a hilarious highlight.The nominal star of the picture,Tommy Kirk is devoid of his child star perkiness which coasted him through the mousketeer and beach party days and plays his part with aa annoying monotone that clearly shows the depression and alcoholism setting in for good.There are about ten minutes of good chuckles in the film but it's really not worth watching without the bots or drunken pals to riff on it unless you're really bored.Be warned,that if you absolutely have to see the monster in action,it doesn't show up until the final three minutes and then it's kaput!If you gotta see one Larry Buchannan picture go with The Eye Creatures or Goodbye Norma Jean. He died just recently at the beginning of 2007