It's Alive III: Island of the Alive

It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 21% of users liked it
    (1,358 ratings)

Better known as It's Alive III, Island of the Alive details the further exploits of the murderous mutant infants introduced in director Larry Cohen's It's Alive! (1974). Said infants are shipped off to a desert island, where they are completely cut off from civilization. The government intends to… More

R, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed By
Larry Cohen
Genres
Horror, Comedy
On DVD
Aug 31, 1994

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    The weakest one in the series.

  • Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is

    Cohen really blood sucked his idea on this one

  • Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

    Finishes the series' natural allegorical evolution.

  • Joshua Vasquez, Slant Magazine

    While perhaps not as necessary a purchase as the release of It's Alive, the two-for-the-price-of-one approach of this DVD is certainly appealing.

  • Joshua Vasquez, Slant Magazine

    Stretches the darkly comedic aspects of the trilogy to the breaking point.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lee ?


    This one sets a different tone compared to the first two films in the series and doesn't take itself too seriously. It's got some nice gore and some bizarre humourous moments, and you also get a better look at the mutant misfits and even fully grown ones too. It is a pretty… More

  • Lafe F


    A whole tropical Island of monster babies is visited for maxiumum horror and hilarity. Like a Jurassic Park sequel, men with guns become the hunted ones against the hoard. Fun and cheap.

  • Adam M


    worth it only for Moriarity's performance, which is as idiosyncratic as one of Walken's; not a good movie but the least logy of the series

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