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Baby | Mutant
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1975 | Larry
1975 | Larry
Budget 500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 7,100,000 USD
"It's Alive" was filmed and edited simultaneously with another Larry Cohen feature, Hell Up in Harlem (1973), which was shot on the weekends during the production of "It's Alive." This means that many of the cast and crew put in consecutive 7 day work weeks to create the films.
Rick Baker made an oversized body cast of the infant which he put his wife into. Larry Cohen questioned on how he could put his wife in there, to which Baker responded that he needed someone available 24 hrs. a day, and because Baker works out of his garage and needed someone to put the cast on, so Baker made her the model for the monster.
For the design of the baby monster, Larry Cohen drew a picture of what he wanted it to look like to Rick Baker, with the oversized forehead and pulsating veins running through the head. Cohen and Baker based it off the Starchild from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and a wolf.
Bernard Herrmann titled the music cue where the milkman meets his demise "The Milkman Goeth."
Larry Cohen called Rick Baker on the telephone while Baker was at the home of Dick Smith, where he was working on effects for The Exorcist (1973). During that initial phone call, Cohen pitched the concept of the film to Baker, and suggested building a baby suit that could be worn by Cohen's cat, or "a chicken or something [...] maybe two chickens!"
"Lieutenant Perkins: Hunting and killing babies doesn't seem to be my specialty."
"Lieutenant Perkins: [Last line] Another one's been born in Seattle..."
