Ep 20 - It's Alive

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 6:16 p.m.

b"70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Ep 20 \\u2014 \\u201cIt\\u2019s Alive!\\u201d (1974)\\n \\nThere\\u2019s only one thing wrong with this episode of 70 Movies We Saw in the 70s\\u2026 IT\\u2019S ALIVE!!! Hollywood sound wiz Jeff Kushner joins Mike and Ben to deliver a sprawling, mauling take on Larry Cohen\\u2019s killer baby classic, with diversions into ITs two sequels, IT LIVES AGAIN (1978) and IT\\u2019S ALIVE 3: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE (1987). Among the questions raised:\\n \\n\\u2022 What\\u2019s so funny about a mutant baby living in a sewer?\\n \\n\\u2022 Which vintage \\u201970s horror film TV ad caused more cardiac events among schoolchildren: SUSPIRIA; MAGIC; or DAWN OF THE DEAD?\\n \\n\\u2022 Larry Cohen, John P. Ryan, and Michael Moriarty: Jewish-Irish Love Connection?\\n \\n\\u2022 How did white go-go boots, psychedelic wallpaper, and dainty Florence Nightingale nurse hats play in punky-disco '77?\\n \\n\\u2022 Where were YOU the day the filming of Q stopped Manhattan\\u2019s morning rush with an unannounced, unlicensed helicopter-vs-machine-guns battle atop the Chrysler building?\\n \\n\\u2022 Circa-1984, what was Larry Cohen doing hanging out in NYC\\u2019s performance art scene with the casts of SMITHEREENS and LIQUID SKY?\\n \\n\\u2022 What is the connection between Robert Blake\\u2019s 1985 NBC series HELL TOWN (where he played a two-fisted priest) and Dee Snider\\u2019s STRANGELAND?\\n \\n\\u2022 Does anybody have any leftover \\u201cSuper-Vision\\u201d 3D glasses from the \\u201980s?"