It's Alive! (1969)

Anecdotes

It's Alive! is a 1969 American monster movie directed by Larry Buchanan and distributed by American International Pictures. The story concerns a mad farmer who tries to feed a stranded couple to a dinosaur he keeps in a cave.

Production

In 1963, John Tomerlin was reportedly adapting the Richard Matheson story "Being" for American International Pictures under the title It's Alive.

The film was reportedly originally written for Peter Lorre.

Buchanan stated that the film was shot in a cave in Arkansas in six days.

"One day we did 57 set-ups!" he said. "We didn't see one foot of film until the whole batch came from the lab a week later. Nine days later we had cut, scored and printed the film and delivered it to AlP, who made a five o'clock deadline for a package to one of their stations. It was frantic. It was a different way of doing movies."

Kirk had previously made Mars Needs Women for Buchanan. The actor later called the film "a monster movie so cheap that the monster wore a scuba suit and had ping-pong balls for eyes".

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