IT’S ALIVE **** USA 1974 Dir: Larry Cohen. 87 mins Writer-director Larry Cohen’s first horror movie is a semi-satirical modern monster movie with a title cannily aping the most famous line from classic Universal horror: hero John Ryan anecdotally acknowledges this by recalling his high school realisation that the…
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CLASS OF 1999 **** USA 1990 Dir: Mark L Lester. 92 mins Mark Lester’s non-sci-fi CLASS OF 1984 gets filtered through a nihilistic, post-ROBOCOP sensibility: in the near future, gang violence in schools has escalated to the extent that Kennedy High in Seattle is a Free Fire Zone the police…