Rick Baker

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Although not his first feature, It’s Alive helped establish Larry Cohen’s reputation as a director of witty, conceptually ingenious low-budget genre films, which come with unexpected twists, conflicted anti-heroes, dark humour, and sympathy for monsters, both human and non-human. Cohen, writer and director of such projects as God Told Me To and Q, made his first foray into the horror genre with this low-budget cult favourite about a murderous mutant baby on a killing rampage.