It's Alive ~ Do Not See This While Pregnant

The Birth of My Second Child

It's June, 1977. I'm 9 months pregnant and my birthday is June 4. I'm talking to my enormous belly and begging this kid to wait until after my birthday to appear cuz the last thing I wanted was to spend my birthday in a damn hospital. (yes this is relevant to the movie.. bear with me!)

My husband at the time was a real jerk, to put it mildly, and went out with his buddies on my birthday. So what's a gal to do? Sit home? Oh hell no! I took my little sister to a movie. What did she want to see? It's Alive! This was the exact wrong movie to see when you're ready to drop a kid. We saw it anyway.

The movie starts with a pregnant chick. She goes in to labor and for some reason this time it just feels different to her... nothing she can put her finger on, but this labor is somehow different than before. Nobody will listen to her.

So, the kid is born and immediately upon exiting the womb, kills everyone but it's mother. Awwww what a cute baby! The little rugrat then goes upside quite a few townsfolk's heads.

Now here's the thing, continuing the tie-in: As soon as I got home from this, I went into labor. I did! Can you see this coming? It's the middle of the night and I've seen this horrible, scary movie and this labor feels different than my first child! Luckily, mine let the doctor live... but that was one panic-filled 5 hours until birth, let me tell ya! So yeah... last warning, do NOT see this if you are ready to pop.

The special effects are pretty laughable today, but this was 25 years ago so you have to cut it some slack, yanno? Watch it in the context of when it was filmed. Lighting is a bit too dark in places and the effects of this are lessened on your TV compared to how it was back on the big screen... but the transfer is better than I really expected.