It's Alive

Lame horror film from Larry Cohen, which seems to have a fairly significan critical and cult following. This film picks up at about the point that a film like Rosemary's Baby ended -- with a woman giving birth to a hideously deformed demon child (allegedly thanks to an untested drug that the mother was on). Fresh out of the womb, the vampiric child runs, jumps, an utilizes logical thinking to butcher his way through the town and back to his proud, proud parents -- not bad for a little tyke. It's unscarey, and I found it to be overly ridiculous. Fortunately, Bernard Herrmann provides a solid score, but I'm not sure why he was working on this film in the first place.