It's Alive

Conversas vazias e cenas desnecessárias durante uma boa metade do filme. Cohen era um homem competente de Hollywood, e ele podia arranjar Bernard Herrmann e um cartaz sedutor, mas construir uma história interessante e cativar o espetador era demasiado para ele. O filme tem uma ideia inovadora com um mutante assassino nascido e pais que lutam com remorsos, por um lado, e com a ligação paternal, por outro, mas nada disto é capitalizado como um motor psicológico funcional do filme. E as cenas de horror são baratas como de filme B. (02/05/2021)

It’s not that bad. Cohen could, of course, have made a stifling psychological horror film about the dark side of parenthood with this premise, but instead of Eraserhead he went for an undeniably softer and grittier whodunit. Although the direction is surprisingly focused and quite engaging in the beginning, gradually Cohen gets narratively unhinged – not so much by what happens on a scene-by-scene level, because that's mostly boring, but by how the story unfolds and how darkly it ends. A murderous toddler unsuccessfully chased by the entire police force, a father with a raging parental existential crisis, and a last sentence that hints at the beginning of Armageddon and the endangerment of civilization. Don't have kids, there's enough of us already and they're gonna eat us! 65 % (22/04/2022)