It's Alive
“There's only one thing wrong with the Davis baby...”
The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever scared. And it's easily scared.
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Studio
Larco Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How It's Alive performed
Budget
$500,000
Worldwide Gross
$7.1M
Gross Profit
$6.6M
Return
14.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~44/56, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (45% of the domestic run, typical for Horror) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Frank Davis
John P. Ryan
Frank Davis
Lenore Davis
Sharon Farrell
Lenore Davis
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Andrew Duggan
The Professor
Bob Clayton
Guy Stockwell
Bob Clayton
Lt. Perkins
James Dixon
Lt. Perkins
The Captain
Michael Ansara
The Captain
The Executive
Robert Emhardt
The Executive
Charley
William Wellman Jr.
Charley
The Doctor
Shamus Locke
The Doctor
Nurse
Nancy Burnett
Nurse
Chris
Daniel Holzman
Chris
Secretary
Diana Hale
Secretary
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