Review of It Lives Again (1978) by Allan C — 07 May 2016

Writer/director Larry Cohen follows up his cult classic with this okay but not as good as the original sequel. The monster baby epidemic continues and now the father of the first film's killer monster baby is part of one extremist group seeking to warn parents of a government conspiracy to kill their monstrous and dangerous babies.

Frederic Forrest and Kathleen Lloyd play the main new couple who Ryan tries to help. Like most of Cohen's films, he infuses his low budget exploitation films with social commentary and here he tackles the abortion debate, which is not a topic you often see in genre pictures.

However, on a straight entertainment level, this film isn't as exciting or subversively funny as some of this other films, but it's still a entertaining film and worth checking out for people who enjoy films about monster babies and such (especially when you have Rick Baker doing the monster baby special effects).

And Cohen reuses the Bernard Herrmann score from the first film since Herrmann has passed away by the time this film was made, so anytime there is a Bernard Herrmann score, that's a good thing.