Island Of The Alive (1987)

By a court order, mutant babies with homicidal tendencies are sent to a remote uninhabited island where they can live out their lives. But when a group of scientists go to the island some five years later to see how the mutant children (they're now five years old) are surviving, the father (Michael Moriarty) of one of the mutant children goes along to be sure no harm comes to the mutants. Written and directed by Larry Cohen (GOD TOLD ME TO), this was the third film in the IT'S ALIVE (1974) franchise following IT LIVES AGAIN (1978). The first film was hardly a masterpiece of horror but it was efficient and often poignant. The second was terrible and this one is worse if that's possible. Badly written and poorly acted, if you hadn't seen Moriarty in other films, you'd guess he was one of the dregs of his profession. It's sad to see how the careers of Moriarty and Karen Black (as his ex-wife) had diminished to the point of doing drek like this. In the first movie, we were only shown tantalizing glimpses of the mutants but here, they are revealed to us and they look like cheap plastic baby dolls. You've been warned. With Macdonald Carey, Laurene Landon and Gerrit Graham.