“One of the most extreme instances of the misrecognition of American films by American critics, It's Alive was generally either ignored or vilified (the public, as is so often the case, were more receptive than the bourgeois-élitist reviewers). Far from being (as one critic described it) a ‘rip-off' of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, Cohen's movie is a highly intelligent and totally personal critique of those films; it also expresses and generates the kind of anguish that one associates more with Ingmar Bergman than with the American ‘exploitation' movie.” --Robin Wood