It Lives Again (1978)

Racked with guilt over his complicity in the death of his mutant baby, a man (a morose John P. Ryan) attempts to help another expecting couple (Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd) escape the authorities who want to kill their mutant baby. Directed by Larry Cohen, this is a sequel to the 1974 horror movie, ITS ALIVE. A third sequel would arrive in 1987. How can I describe how truly awful this dumb movie is? Poorly written and badly acted (if you hadn't seen Forrest act before, you'd never guess he had any talent), the movie is so silly that at times it looks like it might turn into an unintentional comedy. The original film was hardly a masterpiece of horror but at least it had a semblance of intelligence and it delivered in the scare department. This sequel is just plain tacky! The movie reuses Bernard Herrmann's underscore from the first film. With Andrew Duggan, Eddie Constantine and John Marley.